Unleash Your Generosity!

Volume XXVIII, Number 16
December 10, 2024

Christmas Appeal 2024

Unleash Your Generosity!

You have a God-given gift of generosity and you are very important to me.

The souls we could reach in 2025 are depending on you to keep our doors open.

I only ask once a year.

Please, make your gift today. It's one of the reasons why Our Lady sent you to us.

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We've all been through the ringer over the past few years, haven't we? Yet it was worth it because...

I believe our prayers, reparations, and almsgiving through Operation True Cross have moved the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Our Lady has shown me—after years of prayerful self-denial—a simple plan to transform the United States into the most Catholic nation on earth!

We're calling this new initiative Treasure in Heaven, and I'm certain it will result in millions of converts and saints within a few short years.

But first, we have to keep our doors open!

May Our Lady whisper peacefully in your heart when you decide on the amount. I trust you.

My Beloved Friends,

I know, I know, the whole idea of America becoming the most Catholic nation on earth sounds impossible.

But it is possible, and I will tell you why and how at the end.

But many of you don't need a bunch of reasons to donate. You just need this reminder that our Heavenly Father keeps this apostolate alive through your annual Christmas donation.

So unleash your gift of generosity in whatever amount Our Lady guides you to give—then have a happy and holy Advent and Christmas!

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Why Monthly Donors are Such a Blessing

Please consider becoming a monthly donor because it helps us launch new initiatives, which absolutely require a "backbone" of financial stability.

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What is Creative Generosity?

Ponder What Money Is

Money can't save souls sitting in a bank—it is a blessing from God that can be "converted" into the real-world actions, tools for evangelization, and prayer movements that make saints and save souls.

Convert a Good Thing into a Better One

A holy nun once told me during an annual Christmas appeal that "the grace that saves souls never comes cheap." Vacations are valuable. Getting a coffee on the way to work is a good thing. Enjoying a meal with loved one at a restaurant is a real treat. Investment gains and asset appreciation are fantastic.

So just imagine the treasure in heaven that will result from converting one of these good things into new people enjoying God's love the way you do.

For example, just a few hundred of you eating in instead of going out just once a month and "converting" that into a monthly credit card donation allows us to distribute tens of thousands of tools for evangelization.

Which one is more valuable to you? Next, imagine converting something bigger.

Adding a Zero

This is elegantly simple: whatever the amount, ask Our Lady if she wants you to "add a zero" when you fill in the online donation box or write your check. (I've done this before and I've grown to love it.)

Pray for a Percentage

This approach came to me in prayer a few years ago. Consider making a one-time gift that is a specific percentage of your savings or net worth—in the long run, you might never even need it.

Enter into the Joy of Your Lord

In the Parable of the Talents, the Master rewarded those who earned a return on their money by saying, "Enter into the joy of your Lord."

The treasure God seeks from our financial blessings is the salvation of souls. This is what the Father wants and loves. That's why it feels so good to make a donation—it is God's joy we experience when we unleash our gift of generosity.

You Are Everybody Else

I've been doing this for decades. It's human nature to assume "everybody else" is taking care of the Mary Foundation's financial needs.

As much as I long for every reader to join in, that's not the case.

Just doubling or tripling the number of participants opens up a world of possibilities—and trust me, we will spend every penny for souls!

Normally, we need around $200,000 to keep our doors open for another year, but this year we need closer to $500,000 to launch Treasure in Heaven, including moving to a much larger operations center and hiring several new specialized workers.

So please, please don't leave it to "everybody else." You are everybody else."

Without a significant number of new participants this Christmas, we will be forced to delay new projects, lose skilled workers, and could even shut down as soon as next summer. So be the "new guy" this year.

The following are just plain facts:

Your gift will not be a drop in the bucket.

Over the past 34 years, we've received millions in what the world considers "small gifts."

Remember, Our Lord sees the sacrifice, not the amount.

So please, take a minute and join the others. (No one ever regrets it!)

The Same Three Things

You guys are the best! Every year I ask you for the same three things:

1. Enjoy being generous.

2. Invest in amazing new projects like Operation True Cross and Treasure in Heaven.

3. Impact millions of souls while changing history.

Our Lady has chosen her little Mary Foundation and you to do the crucial, humble, and hidden reparation needed for God to deliver America from evil and transform our nation for our children and grandchildren.

I follow the same simple principles she gave me 34 years ago...

We virtually never advertise. We have zero social media. We give most of our high-quality materials away either for free or for ridiculously low donations. We make it easy to pray.

We treat everyone with personal kindness—as individuals.

No other apostolate does the things we do.

Joy in Atonement

Of course, as I wrote above, making a donation can bring divine joy. As a good Catholic, you know this. And even better, "almsgiving atones for sins," our own sins and the sins of our loved ones and nation. (Sirach 3:30)

So I really do beg of you, ask Our Lady to guide you to whatever amount constitutes true-self denial in your own unique situation.

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Why You Are So Important

I'm so glad you are a part of my life and our work. Here is what you make possible through your gift of generosity:

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

Our bishops' unprecedented Eucharistic pilgrimage and congress that followed in our footsteps were a great success!

As a result, hundreds of thousands have now joined our Operation True Cross national prayer movement to implore God to deliver America 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.

Tens 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.

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

In February we will release How to Evangelize Anyone by Jose Pulido, the most gifted teacher of evangelization I have ever met.

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. Onward to victory!

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 in good times and bad, for every minute of every day, 365 days a year.

Our dominant position in search engines helps millions of curious or lukewarm visitors find us every year—it's a chance for God's grace to work through our Catholic content, books, booklets, scapulars, and podcasts.

2. Heaven Knows

Only in heaven will we see how God's providence works by the Mary Foundation "being there" for seekers. 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 the far reaches of northern Canada. He contacted me personally and I sent him everything we had.

He became a Catholic and then converted his entire family before moving to America to become one of the holiest priests I've ever known—now he is the superior general of a religious congregation ministering to countless people!

This is what your unleashing your gift of generosity today can do, by God's pure grace.

3. A Hidden Rosary Apostolate

With your help we have produced tens of millions of tools for evangelization.

For instance, we have distributed more Rosary recordings than any organization in human history. Hundreds of millions of Holy Rosaries, Divine Mercy Chaplets, and other history-changing daily prayers have been offered to heaven.

Our Lady of Fatima made that happen—through you.

4. Prayer Movements and Pilgrimages

In addition to Operation True Cross, since 2015, many of you participated spiritually when we physically (and permanently) delivered your intentions to dozens of holy places in Rome, the Holy Land, Fatima, Canada, France, and national shrines all over America.

5. Sanctify and Evangelize

Everything we offer—every book, every podcast, medal, evangelization card, and every webpage—is designed to set believers, the lukewarm, and the fallen-away on fire.

As one ripple effect, there is no way to keep track of all the Catholic children who have been born after their parents converted! That blows my mind.

6. Creative Initiatives

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

- CatholicYoungAdultGroups.org
- a top "Catholic Prayer" page
- the #1 Catholic Baby Names page
- the entire Catholic Encyclopedia
- the Catechism Simplified
- the Baltimore Catechism
- the most popular online Guide to the Rosary

Not to mention the oldest Catholic email message on earth, from yours truly, which I began writing just months after the World Wide Web went live twenty-nine years ago.

7. Our Lady's "Little Project"

Our Lady sent you to us. All this miraculous activity happens because she is the true founder of this hidden little project consecrated to her Immaculate Heart.

It was her plan for Father Boughton and I to pin her mantle over America in 2020. She is the reason why this broken-down 62-year-old was able to carry a relic of the True Cross in a geographical crucifix over our county with the other Cyrenes last year.

Your participation in that penance was preparation for Treasure in Heaven to help millions of believers become saints.

Helping us this Christmas helps the Mother of God's master plan.

How to Make America Catholic

I know the whole idea of converting America into a fully Catholic nation sounds impossible, but I have been shown the simple steps to implement over the next few years. It's completely feasible.

The short version of Treasure in Heaven is to mail Saint Francis de Sales' How to Pray to forty million Catholic and Christian households while inviting them to become saints.

That's over 200,000,000 million souls!

Our research shows that tens of millions of people are poised to convert, grow in holiness, and refill our churches and schools—all they need is one invitation.

And many of them will join us in our campaign to secure the divine intervention needed to vanquish the powers and principalities oppressing our country.

Millions will order our materials, reaching millions more!

Remember, most people already believe and pray—they just need a spiritual master to teach them how to pray like a saint. Saint Francis de Sales is that master teacher.

Even better, today's unbelievers and Protestants are tomorrow's most effective Catholic evangelists. Think of Saint Paul or Scott Hahn.

Now imagine millions more of them. The United States will be transformed by 2030.

An Ocean of Saints

You already understand that it takes saints and divine intervention to alter the course of history—to transform individuals, families, communities, and whole nations.

When Our Lady called me to start this little apostolate in 1991, I received a vision of a boundless ocean of people converting. Finally, after thirty-three years, I see a clear path to making it happen.

That's why we need to move to a much larger operations center, hire new workers, and teach millions of people how to become saints and evangelists.

Preparing to mail 40,000,000 books will cost a few million dollars. Actually mailing them will cost tens of millions more. I'm not worried about that right now. The plan is in place.

For now, we just need hundreds of thousands of dollars and for you to be what you already are—someone who cares about the salvation of souls. It's not often that one donation can lead to such a massive impact on so many lives.

I trust you because Our Lady sent you to me. So when you make this year's gift, please be generous.

Our Lady will guide you. Remember, "almsgiving atones for sin," (Sirach 3:30), including the sins of those we love who are not willing—yet—to return to grace.

Bringing lost sheep to the Good Shepherd is "treasure in heaven."

Let's get this done. You guys are the best.

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Catholic Quotations

"Fasting is better than prayer and almsgiving is better than both."
- Pope Saint Clement I

"Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy. Rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us."
- Pope Benedict XVI

"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

Pray with Us

Let us, all over the world, begin in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...

We cry out to you, O Generous Father, "Abba!"
We are but children who depend on You for all things,
And wish only to serve well the Mother
of your only begotten Son, Jesus.

Please, Father, direct me, and all those
who have received this appeal,
if it is within Your sovereign will,
to respond prayerfully, happily, humbly, and sacrificially,
for the sake of the many souls the Mary Foundation
influences in so many hidden ways,
in accord with your holy and unfathomable plans.

O Saint Joseph, head of the Holy Family, guide us.
O Immaculate Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, king of our hearts,
show us how to store up treasure in heaven.
Give us the power to love the Father
by doing only His will, as you did on earth
since your humble birth on the first Christmas.
Amen.

Thank you, thank you, for being a part of my life and a part of this extraordinary work of Our Lady. The short version of everything I wrote above is:

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

Never lose hope. Never give up. Be not afraid.

Stay frosty. Double down and double up!

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

Let's go for it!

My crew and I are looking forward to sending out a whole bevy of "thank you" letters. So. Pour. It. On!

May God grant us all a grace-adorned, peaceful, and truly Merry Christmas!

With Saint Joseph,

Bud Macfarlane
Founder

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