Ask for Miracles

Volume XXII, Number 8 – October 7, 2018

Dear CatholiCity Citizen,

By submitting your prayer intentions online right now, you can join me "in spirit" along with a handful of CatholiCity pilgrims when we hand-deliver your intentions to several sacred sites in the Holy Land and Rome from October 17th through October 28th—just like I did at the Oratory of Saint Joseph in Montreal last year, the Tomb of Saint Peter in Rome in 2016, and Fatima Portugal in 2015.

Note: Submissions for this pilgrimage are no longer open.

Ask for Miracles!

Numerous miracles have occurred through these supernaturally potent CatholiCity pilgrimages: mental and emotional healings, conversions, reversions, cancers cured, questions answered, jobs found, doubts clarified, addictions abandoned—so boldly ask Jesus for miracles with childlike confidence, my friends. Our generous Father in heaven wants to give you everything you need, great and small.

My Witness: Amazing Prayers Answered

That is what I do: I ask for everything on these pilgrimages—for you and for the people I love most, and I feel compelled to witness to you: several of my own most personal, most longstanding intentions were answered after going to Fatima, Rome, and at the Saint Joseph Shrine—intentions I had been imploring (even begging) God to grant for many, many years.

But Wait, There's More: Holy Eucharist More!

Once again Fr. John O'Brien, SJ (editor of my novels) will be joining me and will offer Mass for your intentions! Nothing is more powerful than the Eucharist, so Jesus will always be with us in this perfect sacramental way.

If you can, wherever you are, please join me spiritually by attending Mass and praying a Rosary on any or all the days from October 17-28.

Praying Where Jesus Died and Rose

We will pray for you and your intentions while on Calvary Hill where Jesus was crucified, in the Holy Sepulcher where He rose from the dead, and at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. We will permanently hide and even bury your intentions on Calvary and at least six other holy sites in Israel and Italy.

When I return, I'll send you a full report.

This I promise: I will pray with all my heart, with everything I am as a consecrated son of Immaculate Mary, and with the beautiful faith given to me as a little boy—a gift that has humbly extended through Our Lady to you personally (you're reading this, after all!) and to tens millions of people around the world via your participation in the work of the Mary Foundation and CatholiCity.

No Tourism: A Serious Mission

To be frank, despite my excitement about bringing your intentions, I dread these trips. The spiritual warfare is intense. I do not want to leave my sons or my sweetheart for two weeks. The seemingly unending overseas flights make my neck and back scream. I am not going as a tourist, but into battle.

Fr. John and I have been praying about this for months and have decided to offer reparation for the Church in the midst of a horrific, apparently global scandal.

We anticipate getting very little sleep and are going to lean heavily on the six CatholiCity Citizens who responded to my plea to join in this mission, including helping with the filming of Messiah, as I explained in my last message. We're going to lean on each other.

And on Our Lady.

There's Even More: Poor Clares More!

I am personally writing a letter this week to every Poor Clare monastery in the United States (nearly 30 total) and adding a financial gift while begging these beautiful nuns to join our pilgrimage spiritually and to pray for your intentions. Ultimately, nothing changes without the power of grace through prayer.

Multiply This Message

I warmly invite you to tell your friends about this supernaturally soaked, completely free, grace-loaded endeavor. This is the one CatholiCity Message to send to everyone in your email contacts and spread on social media.

Mass and Pilgrimage Offering

I know some of you may wish to help with the significant cost of his pilgrimage. It takes just a few minutes:

Make A Financial Offering

Prayer Before Battle

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

Dear Saint John Vianney, Patron Saint of Parish Priests, and Saint Padre Pio, who bore the stigmata of the crucifixion on your hands, and Saint Anthony, Miracle Worker of Padua,

Satan attacked all of you and constantly and often openly because you fasted and prayed for the conversion and holiness of everyone who received the Eucharist from you, came to Confession to you, heard you preach the Gospel, or called upon you for help in the most dire circumstances.

Please be my friends. Honor me by becoming silent, daily presences in my life. Please ask Jesus to give me and every CatholiCity Citizen on this very day the grace to follow our vocations, lay or religious, as well as to foster God's will for our brothers and sisters, our children, our nieces and nephews, our Godchildren, grandchildren, and great grandchildren through our virtuous examples, fasting, selfless love, reparation, daily prayer, frequent reception of Holy Communion, joyful witness, fierce fidelity, and periodic recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Please ask Jesus, Mary and Joseph to embrace Bud Macfarlane, Father John O'Brien, and the intrepid CatholiCity Citizens with them during every second of every minute of every day of their journey from the very dirt the Holy Family walked upon to the center of the Church the Messiah established. Thank you. Oh, Jesus we trust in You! Amen.

And thank you for being a part of our work. Do not forget to submit your intentions and to spread this email all over social media. You guys are the best!

With Immaculate Mary,

And Saint Joseph,

Bud Macfarlane
Founder