Volume XXIX, Number 24
December 16th, 2025

Oh No (Again?)

Beloved Catholic Friends,

I have a brief Christmas appeal update plus key deadlines for ordering our wonderful materials in time to stuff 'em into stockings—featuring our extraordinary $7 premium Brown Scapular (below).

We'll end with a prayer written by a pope.

We are having a really rough Christmas appeal this year—and it's probably my fault.

We're only 30% to our goal for keeping our doors open next year.

At this point, I will be sincerely grateful if you merely consider making a Christmas gift. Please help us reach souls for Our Lady:

Make Your Christmas Gift

Mighty Widow's Mites

Please forgive me if I came on too strong or our timing was off. As it stands, 16,000 of you never even opened my emails last week.

I am humbly asking you—one last time—to make a Christmas gift this year, even if your life is hectic or money is tight.

Maybe especially if life is hectic or money is tight. I can relate to both—and I'm a monthly donor myself.

Hard times? As I always say, "the Lord sees the sacrifice, not the amount." Widow's mites make a big difference around here (and in heaven).

Our Lady will guide you—maybe not to an amount—but about whether or not you should help out. Please ask her at this moment, then listen.

It only takes a few minutes, helps numerous souls, and always feels good:

Make Your Christmas Gift

Stamp Champs

And you can always go "old school" by mailing your Christmas gift:

Say Stuffing Stockings Seven Times

Our ridiculously-affordable premium-quality gifts have supernatural meaning and are always well-received. Most are sprinkled with Lourdes water and touched to our first-class relics of saints and my fragment of the True Cross:

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The Scapular Bud Always Wanted

I invented the exclusive "button hole" in the back for holding medals—and our Brown Scapular comes with a blessed Miraculous Medal. Hand-made in the USA with soft, durable wool, it lasts forever.

It's the best Brown Scapular in the world—and it's only $7 (not $25).

Gift Box Included

Your brown scapulars will arrive in lovely gift boxes, just like our premium Purple Scapulars, Jerusalem Soil Rosaries, and our Guadalupe oak-framed art-house prints.

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More Great Christmas Gifts (20¢ to $30 each)

Your gifts will "Arrive before Christmas" if you order by:

2 pm EST, Wednesday, Dec 17 - Standard Shipping (Free)
From Dec 18 until Dec 22 - Expedited Shipping ($10)
On Dec 23 - Next Day Air ($40+)

Saint Michael's on the Job

Please join me and tens of thousands of others worldwide by praying this exorcism prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII in the nineteenth century, beginning in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...

Saint Michael, the Archangel,
defend us in the day of battle!
Be our protection against the
wickedness and snares of the devil.

May God rebuke him,
we humbly pray, and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
cast into hell satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Saint Joseph, Terror of Demons, protect us.
Mary, Mother of God, help us.
Infant of Prague, bless us.
Amen.

Sorry about all the fuss. We remain sincerely grateful to everyone who has already donated online or mailed a donation!

Thank you for being a part of my life and our work.

You guys are the best!

Meet me in the Eucharist.

Have a blessed Advent.

With Saint Joseph,

Bud Macfarlane
Founder

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