America: Crucifixion Before Resurrection
Volume XXVI, Number 15
September 13, 2022
This time tomorrow, Operation True Cross will be underway!
Do you have our backs? Of course you do—you guys are the best!
Your responses have been wonderful! Thousands of you are praying, giving alms, and taking on various self-denials with us. I'll get to back to everyone who emailed me, I promise. (If you're new to this email message, read about Operation True Cross here.)
Great News: Non-Stop Attacks!I have cool photos for you today and excellent new ways for you to participate no matter where you live or how old you are.
My guys are ready. In fact, the spiritual warfare has already begun. That's a good sign, and just makes me more determined. We've been loving our way through a near-catastrophic computer failure (seriously—that kept us at the office until 4:00 am), all of our cars breaking down on the same day, inexplicable weird relationship issues, and stuff like that.
After three decades of this, I'm used to it, but I am also certain that God is sending powerful angels to protect us all the way through. We know the Mantle of Mary is covering us.
By the time you read this, we'll be driving toward Our Lady of Good Help in northern Wisconsin. Before 11:00 am Mass tomorrow on the Feast of the Holy Cross, we will pray the Daily Prayers to Save America. Then, with little fanfare, after receiving Holy Communion, we will begin carrying a fragment of the True Cross with the Real Presence of Christ in our bodies while praying our first of hundreds of Rosaries.
Two by two, forty miles a day. We will sleep in a modified cargo van with no running water.
As far as I know, forming a "cross of reparation" has never been attempted in any nation. Here's my son Xavier. He crafted our Icon Crucifix into a reliquary with a Purple Scapular strap.
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Our demeanor is reverently solemn. We have no social media or marketing campaign. We are camouflaged: besides you, nobody knows we exist, which means nobody can stop us. We are aiming to do history-changing damage to the demonic forces oppressing America by calling upon "the power of God," as it says in the Saint Michael Prayer.
Three Main Ways to Join Us
It's daunting. Without you, I don't think we'll make it. If you're just finding out about Operation True Cross, and want to join us spiritually (along with countless others), here are the three main ways to participate:
• Pray the Daily Prayers
• Distribute the Prayer Book ($1 Each)
• Give Alms to Atone for Sin
Other Ways to Help
A few more ways came to me in prayer regarding how you can participate.
1. Walk to JesusI don't know how far you live from your parish, but consider walking to your church to spend time with your Eucharistic Lord. Carry the crucifix on your Rosary beads, or carry an actual crucifix touched to the same True Cross we are carrying from Wisconsin to Indiana. If your church is too far, park a reasonable distance away and walk the rest. Walking and praying go together.
2. Let Me Carry Your NeedsI'm taking an encrypted flash drive with your personal intentions to Wisconsin, where I will permanently place it in the church where Our Lady appeared to Sister Catherine Brise in 1831. Then I'll carry a second flash drive on foot to Indiana to place it at the Lourdes Grotto.
Let me carry your burdens, needs, and desires. Carry my needs in your heart when you pray or when you receive Holy Communion.
It's completely anonymous, free, and secure.
3. Pray the Rosary in PublicXavier, Anthony, Patrick, and myself pray the Rosary out loud during our training walks around town.
It struck me that praying a Rosary in public is a wonderful way to "join us" while bearing witness to the power of what Padre Pio called the greatest weapon against Satan. Fire at will.
4. Pray the Rosary Live with Keith NestorI'll have more to say about my friend Keith Nestor in upcoming messages. He's a former Methodist minister from Iowa with an amazing conversion story, and he's been live-streaming the Rosary on YouTube at 5:00 pm Central every day for nearly three years. He is a striking preacher and offers brief reflections between decades focusing on the traditional "fruits" of each mystery. Thousands pray with him live and on "replay."
He's loves Operation True Cross. If you can't get out of the house, or don't have someone to pray with, Keith's Rosary Crew is a great blessing:
Pray Live with the Rosary Crew
5. Mix Your Alms with Mine"Water extinguishes a blazing fire, and almsgiving atones for sins." That's my guy Sirach in the Bible, and it jumped out at me during the readings at Sunday Mass two weeks ago.
Only you and Our Lord can figure out how much is "self-denial" when it comes to almsgiving. The Lord sees the sacrifice, not the amount.
Yesterday I decided to match every donation you make to support this movement up to half of whatever is sitting in my bank account. Yikes!
Taking my own advice, I prayerfully invited God into my decision, and half of what I have is where the pain begins. I'm not a wealthy man, mostly because every extra penny has gone into my four sons' educations—like many of you, I'm usually thrilled just to get my rent paid while hoping my little stick-shift Ford doesn't break down—again.
I'll match every donation from now until midnight on Thursday, the second day of Operation True Cross and the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
If you donate online, put "Matching Bud's Alms" in the Comment Box. If you mail a donation, just include a note.
Catholic Quotation
"Fasting is better than prayer and almsgiving is better than both."
- Saint Clement I
"It is only by sacrificing and suffering, offered as penance, that you will be able, by the grace of God, to convert sinners."
- Saint John Vianney
I'm turning sixty on October 1st, Feast of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. So mark Friday, September 23rd onto your calendar to begin praying a nine-day novena with me to the Little Flower.
She's my troublemaker, so ask for miracles! Here's the prayer I've used for decades. If you would be so kind as to join me in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...
O Little Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
please pick a rose for me from the heavenly garden
and send it to me as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God today
to grant the favors I now place with confidence
in your hands: State Your Request
Saint Thérèse, help me to always believe
as you did in God's great love for me
so that I might imitate your Little Way each day.
Amen.
Amen! My soul is bursting with zeal for souls and hope for our country! Your responses to Operation True Cross over the past few weeks have been amazing. Keep it coming! (Again: I will answer every email. I promise.)
I poured my heart out for a new section on the True Cross webpage. The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is coming very soon. Satan, and his influence over our nation, is ending. Now. You can read it here:
I'll end where I began: you guys are the best!
If you'll pardon me, kind ladies and gentlemen, I'm going on a long journey...
With the Sacred Heart,
Bud Macfarlane Founder
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