The CatholiCity Message
Volume XVII, Number 9 – November 11, 2013
NOW AVAILABLE: All-New Free Catholic Booklets
Dear CatholiCity Citizen,
I'm excited! Our all-new line of free Catholic booklets are ready to ship. If you have ever considered forwarding a message to everyone you can via email or social media, this is the one.
Depending on your response today the number of souls we will effect will reach millions. But this will happen only if you prayerfully decide to order booklets today and forward this email far and wide.
We endured a tremendous amount of spiritual warfare to make these new booklets a reality. We have learned over the past twenty years catching flak from old sparky is a good sign because it means the souls of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people within the parishes in your area are at stake. As always, you can skip the rest of this email and order booklets online or by mail right now:
ORDER ONLINE:
https://secure.catholicity.com/
ORDER BY MAIL:
U.S. residents can print out a mail-in order form here:
http://www.catholicity.com/orderform.pdf
There is no charge for shipping (for U.S. residents). No printer? U.S. residents can order booklets by sending a note to:
The Mary Foundation
Free Catholic Booklets
PO Box 26101
Fairview Park, OH 44126-0101
Donations are optional. Make checks payable to "The Mary Foundation." Do you live outside the United States? Order online--the lowest available shipping rates are provided automatically to anywhere in the world.
FOUR LIFE-CHANGING NEW BOOKLETS
You can see the full-color covers, helpful descriptions and even read each title before ordering:
http://www.catholicity.com/booklets/
-Powerful Prayers Every Catholic Should Know
-Going Back to Confession After Years or Decades
-For Adults Only: A Mature Conversation About Changing Your Life
-A Bright Future for the Catholic Church in America
THE MOST AFFORDABLE PRAYER BOOKLET EVER
There are several reasons why you will agree that "Powerful Prayers Every Catholic Should Know" is the best prayer booklet ever.
First, it was designed for ridiculously affordable evangelization. Other publishers typically charge $3 to $5 per booklet before shipping fees. That's why you almost never see them. "Powerful Prayers" is available for only 10 cents apiece with free shipping in any quantity. Now you can reach hundreds of families in your local parishes and schools for only $40 instead of $4000!
PRAYERS EVERY PERSON NEEDS
Our "Powerful Prayers" booklet meets a deep supernatural need for every person--whether they practice the faith or not. Remember, Catholics nowadays barely know any prayers beyond the Our Father and Hail Mary. "Powerful Prayers" is elegently comprehensive. It contains all the basics plus Morning Prayers, Prayers to Mary, Prayers to Saints, classic Novenas, Prayers for Mass, How to Pray the Rosary, and much more. You can see a full listing of every prayer here:
http://www.catholicity.com/booklets/prayer.html
YOU YOURSELF ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS BOOKLET
In fact, I used "Powerful Prayers" prayer booklet this morning after receiving Holy Communion. It reoriented my attitude and relationship with Jesus through five amazingly potent prayers, including profound Communion prayers composed by Saint Thomas Aquinas universally acknowledged as classics without equal.
For example, here is a prayer by Saint Ignatius for After Mass found in "Powerful Prayers" you probably did not know existed:
"Lord Jesus Christ, take all my freedom, my memory, my understanding, and my will. All that I have and cherish you have given me. I surrender it all to be guided by your will. Your love and your grace are wealth enough for me. Give me these, Lord Jesus, and I ask for nothing more. Amen."
A little scary, right? This is how a *saint* prayed. This is how we should all pray.
This prayer and dozens of others in the booklet have had powerfully positive effects on Catholics for hundreds of years (and in the case of some prayers, such as the Novena to Saint Joseph, for nearly two thousand years). And don't get me started on Novenas. It has all the best ones to Saints Anthony, Jude, Theresa, and Joseph, plus the Miraculous Medal Novena. If you have never prayed a Novena and would like to try, well, I promise that many miracles and answers to heart-wrending problems are in your future!
PEOPLE WILL PRAY
Every prayer you make possible through this booklet (which almost certainly never would have been prayed without your actions) will help save souls for decades to come, especially when you take into account that you will be helping people form lifetime habits.
Picture just one of the booklets you make available enabling a young man to pray a Novena to Saint Anthony. His intention is answered, perhaps with a miracle, as so often happens when anyone asks Saint Anthony for help. That young man will surely continue to pray Novenas for decades to come and tell his story to others. He may take up praying a Morning Offering many thousands of times over his lifetime.
He will teach his wife and children these prayers. In terms of evangelization, you can see why every Catholic who attends Mass in your area needs to receive a free copy.
EASY WAYS TO DISTRIBUTE THOUSANDS THROUGH PARISHES
During the span of two decades, you and your fellow CatholiCity Citizens have used many approaches to give out our materials in parishes. Here is a list of some of those proven ways you can effectively reach hundreds and even thousands of people in your area:
-Place our free displays (available when you order online) at every church exit.
-Ask your pastor to have ushers pass out booklets during weekend Masses.
-Emphasize distributing booklets during Lent and Advent.
-Insert booklets into the parish bulletin.
-Use pre-existing racks at churches, schools (and even grocery stores).
-Always keep several ten-packs in your car to restock local churches.
-Ask your pastor to bulk mail booklets to non-practicing parishioners.
-Donate booklets to every child in your local Catholic schools.
-Give gift sets of all of our booklets to priests, parish educators, etc.
-Offer booklets at conferences, weddings, and sporting events.
-Plan a "Day Trip" (with your children or a friend) to stock area parishes.
Of course, "Powerful Prayers" is fully approved for publication by the Bishop of Cleveland, so you can distribute it with confidence. Go for it!
https://secure.catholicity.com/
THE WISDOM OF JESUS
You and your fellow CatholiCity Citizens are part of a relatively tiny percentage of Catholics who care about evangelizing. You know there is no army of millions waiting to distribute these booklets. It is up to you. Consider the wisdom of our Lord:
"The harvest is great but the workers are few."
Jesus
Our biggest challenge is that we need more workers for the greatest harvest of souls in human history. In America alone, tens of millions of souls are open to conversion. These millions are depending on you--starting with the hundreds of families in nearby parishes. Our Lady sent you to us for a reason.
If you take a few moments to order booklets, immortal souls who otherwise, of their own free will, would have chosen to go to hell will be converted, healed, and saved. Every person who reads a booklet because of your decision to wade into the harvest field today has the potential to reach countless others who otherwise might never get the chance to hear the truth.
Twenty-two years ago this month God inspired me to start the Mary Foundation by giving me a vision in which I foresaw countless millions of people being influenced by free materials. It seemed impossible, but a few dozen benefactors like you in 1991 multiplied into thousands.
To a greater or lesser degree you have been a part of that future coming true. I have never doubted that God desires us to convert America to Catholicism, beginning with Catholics who attend Mass but have not been given the fullness of the truth for a variety of reasons.
Time is not on our side. Dark days lie ahead for our society as our world continues to devolve into the Culture of Death. If we don't try our best while we still have freedom, we will surely fail, and even if we "fail" in worldly terms, we can still help God change countless lives and affect the course of history in ways beyond our imaginings. You might help one person become a better Catholic so that a hundred years from now their great-granddaughter, who otherwise may never have been born, becomes the next Saint Joan of Arc.
"Store up for yourself treasure in heaven...for where your treasure is, there also will your heart reside."
Jesus
What Jesus is really offering you through my email message today is treasure in heaven: the chance to inspire and convert souls. As the saints and the Bible constantly teach us, this heavenly treasure will impact our own final judgments. Investing in this kind of heavenly wealth justifies making real sacrifices here on earth: effort, time, and finances.
Yes, yes, yes, believe me, more than you can know, I understand how hard it is to survive a single day sometimes, to fight the lethargy, given the challenges and responsibilities of modern life, especially parenthood. My own eyes are stinging right now from lack of sleep, and at times I have shed real tears while turning to Mary for help.
I remind myself what a wise old priest once told me in Confession: Jesus fell and rose three times on the rocky path to His crucifixion. We must follow His example to get to the most perfect place of friendship in the universe: sharing time with Our Lord on the Cross. I have been there. Paradoxically, there is joy on the Cross. To get to Him there, however, we must get back up every time we fall.
I know finances are tight for some of you. If you cannot afford a donation, that's okay: I urge you to order booklets by mail and instead of money, send us prayers every day for each person who reads or hears our materials.
Stuck inside, isolated? Mail us a check or donate online to subsidize those who are struggling financially yet are able to distribute booklets. We are all in this together.
But for the great majority of you? On this very day you can order hundreds of booklets. Throw in some of your favorite Mary Foundation CDs, a dozen novels, then put the box in your car and get them out to the churches in your area during a Saturday afternoon or whenever you go to Mass.
https://secure.catholicity.com/
Get three times as many as you think you can give away; based on feedback from your fellow benefactors, you'll be reordering three times as fast as the Holy Spirit presents unforeseen opportunities to give away booklets.
Regardless of how, how much, or how often you contribute, on behalf of Tim Harrison and everyone here at CatholiCity, I sincerely thank you being such a faithful part of our lives and our mission. In a few days, I'll tell you about our new Confession booklet, then I'll be back in a couple of weeks with a "normal" CatholiCity Message. As always, I pray for you, your loved ones, and your intentions every day at Mass.
With Immaculate Mary,
Bud Macfarlane
Founder