Volume XXIX, Number 23
December 11th, 2025

Which ONE Are You?

Yikes! Most of You Missed It!

Did you miss my last message?

I only ask once a year and it's not complicated:

We need your help to keep our doors open in 2026!

For the sake of countless souls, please make your annual Christmas gift today.

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As always, we warmly invite you to ask the Mother of God to guide you when you decide how much to give.

And—just for me—would you also ask Saint Joseph if he wants you to "add a zero," this year? Thanks.

Happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Somehow 23,000 of you missed my Christmas appeal email earlier this week (which is a bummer for us financially).

We'll conclude with cool quotes and a prayer.

Please accept our profound gratitude if you have already made your annual gift. You guys are the best!

What You Missed (Probably)

I happily reported in my first email that the first phase of our Treasure in Heaven project was completed due to the talents of our new guy, Kevin Lee. At this point, a lack of funding is the only thing holding us back.

Click here to see Kevin's huge family in my first message.

What You Make Possible

In addition to Treasure in Heaven, here is what you make possible through your annual support:

• Hundreds of thousands have now joined our Daily Prayers to Save America prayer movement to implore God to deliver our nation from evil.

• Our Young Adult network has grown to over 1,200 groups. The conversions and solid Catholic marriages I promised would happen have begun.

• Father Ripperger's Three Angelus Cure is spreading to remove unnecessary demonic influence from countless lives.

• Ten of thousands are trusting Saint Francis de Sales to teach them how to pray like saints and live in mystical union with Jesus all day long.

• Many of you are using Jose Pulido's remarkably effective How to Evangelize Anyone to reach your fallen-away loved ones.

• Our grueling 4,500-mile cruciform walking pilgrimage to secure divine intervention has been completed.

• Our podcasts are converting, training, and inspiring hearts and minds.

All these "green shoots" in Mary's garden are the first of many more.

What we've been doing together is working. Your Christmas gift is an important part of it all. The dragon will fall!

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Seven Ways You'll Help Souls

1. A Conversion Tool for Millions

Since the dawn of the Internet in 1996, our CatholiCity.com website has been there for every minute of every day, 365 days a year. Our dominant position in search engines helps millions of curious or lukewarm visitors find out about the faith every year.

2. Your Gift Unleashes High-Impact Evangelizers

Your Christmas gift makes it possible for Catholics struggling on limited or fixed incomes to reach large numbers of otherwise unreachable souls.

That's because most of our life-changing "tools for evangelization" like The Warning are available for free or only $1 each—not $10 to $20. Your role is absolutely crucial.

3. Heaven Knows

Only in heaven will we see how God's providence works through your Christmas generosity. Even as the founder, I see only a tiny slice of the supernatural ripple-effect of our work together. Here's one:

Decades ago, our website sparked the dramatic conversion of a teenage boy in northern Canada. He contacted me and I sent him everything we had. Father Joshua became a Catholic and then converted his entire family before moving to America to become one of the holiest priests I've ever known! He recently became the youngest Superior General in the world.

I could provide numerous examples just from my own area here in Ohio.

4. The Hidden Rosary Apostolate

We have distributed more Rosary recordings than any organization in human history. Hundreds of millions of Rosaries and Divine Mercy Chaplets have been offered to heaven. Our Lady of Fatima made that happen—through you.

5. Pilgrimages and Petitions

Since 2015 many of you participated spiritually when we physically (and permanently) delivered your intentions to dozens of holy sites in Rome, the Holy Land, Fatima, Canada, France, and national shrines all over America.

6. Comprehensive Online Resources

Many newer folks are not aware of some of our other creative initiatives and online services:

• A top "Catholic Prayer" page
• The #1 Catholic Baby Names page
• Our unique Catholic Young Adult Group network
• The entire Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Catechism Simplified
• The Baltimore Catechism
• The #1 online Guide to the Rosary

7. "Great Grandpa" of Catholic Email Messages

Not to mention the very first and one of the most popular Catholic email messages on earth—you're reading it right now—which I began writing just months after the Net went live in 1996.

Our Lady's "Little Project"

As I always assure you: Immaculate Mary sent you to us. All this miraculous activity happens because she is the true founder of this hidden apostolate.

It was her plan for Father Boughton and I to pin her mantle over America in 2020.

Our Lady is the reason why this broken-down 63-year-old was able to walk a relic of the True Cross in a geographical crucifix over our entire country with the other Cyrenes for 4,500 miles.

Your spiritual, physical, and financial sacrifices unite to that penance so the Blessed Mother can convert and guide countless believers to be saints like Father Joshua.

The Bible assures us, "Almsgiving atones for sin," including for others who are not yet ready to welcome God's grace. (Sirach 3:30)

Will you help her this Christmas?

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Which One Are You?

As much as I ardently long for every reader to join in, that's simply not the case. Only a minority of you participate.

If you find it in your heart to help us double the number of participants this year, it will dramatically reduce the timeline for implementing our Treasure in Heaven project:

The Mary Foundation needs around $200,000 this Christmas just to keep our doors open for another year.

We need another $300,000 to implement the next phase of Treasure in Heaven, including sending out the first large-scale test mailings.

So please don't leave it to "everybody else" this Christmas.

You are everybody else.

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We Love our Overseas Friends

Our powerful materials are super-affordable anywhere anyone speaks English. We are truly grateful for the financial support we receive from our friends around the world—in Canada, Australia, the U.K, the Philippines, and beyond.

Quotations

"To convert someone, take them by the hand and guide them."
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Christ’s birth was not necessity, but an expression of omnipotence. He who made Adam without generation from pure clay made man again from a pure body."
- Saint Peter Chrysologus

"He was humbled in the womb of the Virgin, needy in the manger of sheep, and homeless on the wood of the cross. Nothing humbles the proud sinner as much as the humility of Jesus' humanity."
- Saint Anthony of Padua

"I try to live every week like it's Christmas Week—and Shark Week."
- Bud Macfarlane (yes, me, and I just made that up)

Let's Pray a Song

Let us begin, tens of thousands of us together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...

O Come, O Wisdom from on high,
who ordered all things mightily,
to us the path of knowledge show,
and teach us in its ways to go.
Amen.

The short version of everything I wrote above is:

We need you.
Our Lady needs you.
Your nation needs you.

Fear nothing. Emmanuel has been with us for over two thousand years.

The Lord has been sending me a steady message in prayer for four years: "Build the army. Don't lose your nerve. It's for the whole world."

And lately, "The dragon will fall."

And remember to ask Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child if they want you to "add a zero" to your gold, myrrh, or frankincense this year.

That's my son Clete, who just helped me hunt down the typos! Pray for his wife to show up soon.

May God grant us all a grace-adorned Advent and a truly merry Christmas!

With the Holy Family,

Bud Macfarlane
Ho Ho (eater)

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