A Rosary Made Just for You
Volume XXIII, Number 10 – December 03, 2019
It's not complicated and a little scary: without your participation in this year's Christmas Appeal, CatholiCity will cease to exist.
My Christmas gift for you is a unique rosary that combines a Miraculous Medal centerpiece and a Lourdes Crucifix—
—which I personally doused with Lourdes water and touched to my True Cross and "all-star" first class relics!
From Bud Macfarlane, Founder
Dear CatholiCity Citizen,
I only ask you once a year.
It's simple. We need every person reading this message to participate in our annual Christmas Appeal to keep our doors open.
Please, please don't leave it up to "everybody else." You are everybody else. Will you help keep our doors open?
No apostolate in America reaches more fallen-away Catholics per dollar. Everything we give away is specially designed to appeal to the lukewarm and fallen-away. You know this from your own experience.
Your financial sacrifice will pay for absolute necessities such as office rent, shipping packages, exciting new projects, and manufacturing powerful tools for evangelization.
On every Feast of the Immaculate Conception, after receiving Holy Communion, I pray for you during a heartfelt holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament. I implore Jesus and Our Lady to move your soul for the sake of the millions of real people who will surf into CatholiCity.com, stream our free talks, or receive our life-changing CDs, booklets, and books in 2020 and beyond.
$77 GIFT: A Rosary Made Just for YouOur Christmas Appeal has always been a heart-warming Exchange of Gifts, and our special gift for you this year is a priceless Lourdes Crucifix Rosary with a Miraculous Medal centerpiece that comes with a leather tie I personally carried to the most spiritually potent sites in the Holy Land.
Hand-made in Italy by the Ghirelli family, your rosary was exclusively designed for this year's appeal and will never be made again!
Although made with jeweler-quality crystal, what makes it priceless is spiritual: after personally attaching the leather tie I carried throughout the Holy Land and having it blessed by a priest, I doused your rosary with water from the miraculous spring in Lourdes and then touched it to my Relic of the True Cross and first class relics of the following all-star line up of saints:
- Saint Bernadette Soubirous
- Saint Joseph
- Saint Jude
- Saint Anthony
- Saint Therese Lisieux
- Saint Maximilan Kolbe
- Saint Francis Xavier
Take close look at the amazing Crucifix featuring the famous crowned Lourdes Rosary Basilica and Our Lady's words to Saint Bernadette in 1858 at the Lourdes Grotto. As you can see, it's beautiful.
It's a perfect gift for someone you love (including a premium blue velvet pouch, not pictured). Will you take a few moments to make an online donation today?
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$33: Saint Joseph Art-Print You will receive this beautiful Saint Joseph and Child 8x10 Art-House print when you make a gift of $33 or more. Ready for framing with integrated double matting on premium-grade stock. |
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$555: Saint Benedict Medal In addition to the wood-framed print and four Lourdes Rosaries, we'll send this Saint Benedict Medal that I personally carried along with your prayer intentions to the holiest sites in France during our June 2019 pilgrimage. |
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Every donor, regardless of amount, will receive a beautiful 3x4 Saint Joseph and Child fridge magnet as a powerful daily reminder to pray every time your family members grab a snack or prepare a meal.
CatholiCity is always there for you, your family, friends, and most importantly, for anyone searching online for the truth – every minute of every day since 1996.
Twice as many people (many millions) visited our website in 2015-2019 than in 2011-2015 and we expect a lot more in 2020. They find us through excellent search-engine placement of over 18,000 individual webpages. As just one example: Did you know we have the #1 Catholic Baby Name site and Catholic Prayer page in the world?
Your generosity will ensure that huge numbers of potential converts and fallen-away Catholics will continue to have the opportunity to receive our free life-changing CDs, novels, autobiographies, booklets, streaming talks, CatholiCity Messages, commentary, links, resources, and online prayers.
And don't forget about my annual pilgrimages to Fatima, Rome, the Shrines in Canada, the Holy Land, and France to bring tens of thousands of your prayer intentions to the holiest places on earth. Miracles, conversions, and healings have occurred!
Monthly Help: the BackboneIncluding overhead (such as rent for our shipping center) it costs around $2 to manufacture, process, package and ship a CD, book, or 10-pack of booklets. Because of our large volumes and unmatched operational efficiency, this is still only a fraction of what it costs other charities or even secular companies.
Can you sacrifice $20 or a multiple of $10 a month to form the "backbone" of our operation? Please consider becoming a monthly credit card donor:
Every year I warmly invite you to ask yourself, "Does God even want me to make a donation?" I certainly don't assume that He does.
I do know this: there is a tendency to assume that everybody else is donating. This is simply not true.
I believe some of you are called to make an especially large gift of hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Whether it's $500 or $5,000, whatever your circumstances, I understand that giving a large gift requires a real sacrifice. "The grace that saves souls never comes cheap," a holy nun once wrote to me.
For example, every $100 lets us print 1,100 Returning to Confession booklets. Your gift will help numerous real people come back to Confession next year.
So please pray and discuss making a big gift with your loved ones. Ask Our Lady to guide you.
Of course even a modest gift of $5, $10, or $20 will help us reach our goal and prevent us from being forced to shut everything down.
Prayer DonationsIf you cannot afford to help financially, I understand. Everyone can donate the priceless gift of prayers.
Feel free to email me to let me know so I can personally thank you for praying the Rosary or making Holy Hours or offering Communion for the success of this year's appeal and for the salvation of every unique visitor to our website and all those who hear or read our materials.
As long as I'm on the subject of prayer, please join me and tens of thousands of CatholiCity Citizens in my favorite prayer, emphasizing the profound word, "now," in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus!
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
On behalf of all my coworkers here, may you and your family have a blessed Advent, a holy Christmas, and a grace-filled 2020. All for Immaculate Mary!
With Saint John Vianney,
Bud Macfarlane
Founder
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A little worn down by travel, praying for you during the evening Rosary Procession in Lourdes, with thousands of pilgrims from all over the world, in front of the same famous Rosary Basilica depicted on your Rosary. |
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