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December 17, 2011, Fund-Raising Letter Update

Thomas A. Droleskey

Post Office 8079

West Chester, Ohio 45069-8079

September 24, 2011

Ember Saturday in Advent

A Quote from Saint Paulinus of Nola

      "God almighty could have made all men equally rich in worldly goods from the very first day of  birth, so rich that no one would be dependent upon another.  But He did not do it in order to test the hearts of men.  He created the poor to make men merciful, He created the helpless to put the powerful on trial."

 

Dear Friends:

This page has not been updated since Ember Saturday in September twelve weeks ago today. Many of my articles of the last few months have resulted in the sharpest decline of support for this site since it went online on February 20, 2004. Obviously, this is, of course, within the Providence of God, which is accepted with love and gratitude as I much for which to make reparation.

As has been noted on other occasions, sales of books and recordings were brisk in the years we journeyed to "resist but recognize" venues. It was not for our material well-being or even popularity or acceptance that we came to realize that those who defect from the Faith in one thing, no less many things, are not members of the Catholic Church and cannot hold ecclesiastical office legitimately. One must be faithful to what he knows to be true no matter the consequences that may occur as a result.

As has been made manifest by the paucity of non-tax-financial gifts made via PayPal or received at our post office box in the past several months now, there can be no doubt that the work of this site no longer has any sustainable base of support, which is why other writing projects have been undertaken. Those who believe that this work has value and have the means and the desire to be of assistance temporally will do so. Others will continue to ignore the updates to this page.

All I can do is to ask those who support the work of this site to continue to be of spiritual assistance to us by means of your prayers and to note that we still need non-tax-deductible financial gifts. This page, as humiliating as it is to update, is only being revised because of necessity.

The true measure of each of our lives and of our work will be manifest to us at that terrible moment of the Particular Judgment and to all others at the General Judgment of the living and the dead on the Last Day. Each of us must endure the cross until the day we die, recognizing that nothing we suffer--whether it be physical pain or disease or the loss of family members or the rejection by friends or castigation and mockery and ostracism or even monetary difficulties--is the equal of hat one of our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity on the wood of the Holy Cross and that caused His Most Blessed Mother to suffer as those Seven Swords of Sorrow were pierced through and through her Immaculate Heart. Suffering is the path to Heaven. We must lift high the Cross every day of our lives as the consecrated slaves of Our Lord through that same Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

There have been two hundred three original articles published on this site thus far this year. The latest statistics about visits to this site for this month thus far are as follows:

Day Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
01 Dec 2011 569 1,114 4,645 451.10 MB
02 Dec 2011 518 998 4,399 465.62 MB
03 Dec 2011 530 1,000 4,323 383.60 MB
04 Dec 2011 541 992 5,060 441.00 MB
05 Dec 2011 724 1,473 6,345 500.92 MB
06 Dec 2011 608 1,294 6,304 451.59 MB
07 Dec 2011 627 1,127 5,451 434.32 MB
08 Dec 2011 587 992 5,042 396.13 MB
09 Dec 2011 583 1,026 4,401 379.48 MB
10 Dec 2011 494 910 3,960 312.12 MB
11 Dec 2011 576 995 4,996 365.68 MB
12 Dec 2011 716 1,312 5,398 378.50 MB
13 Dec 2011 686 1,272 5,725 386.06 MB
14 Dec 2011 630 1,094 5,235 358.58 MB
15 Dec 2011 670 1,341 6,230 479.57 MB
16 Dec 2011 97 182 585 28.37 MB

  Average 572                    1,070            4,881            388.29 MB
  Total 9,156                     17,122           78,099           6.07 GB

According to the "stats meter," the last measurement took place at 6:09 a.m. yesterday, December 16, 2011. 

Obviously, there are a few more reading this site than the fourteen people who have sent us non-tax-deductible gifts in the past twelve week. Yes, not everyone who reads the articles on this site agrees with the content. Moreover, some are very angered by the content on this site. There must be a few more than those who we hear from fairly regularly who are not hostile to this site's work and who might have the means to be of assistance, and it is to such readers that a reminder is offered that some help would be greatly appreciated.

As a reminder, individuals can donate up to $12,000 in what is called a non-tax-deductible financial gift without any tax liability being incurred by the donor or the recipient. Naturalists can get on the phone and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their political campaigns. All I want to do is to raise enough money to pay our monthly bills while continuing the work of this site and work on my writing projects as efforts are made to find some kind of employment that would permit me to pay our monthly fixed expenses.

We continue to pray that Our Lady and Saint Joseph will continue to send us generous souls to help us meet our fixed expenses every month in addition to the tax assessment that is coming  due at the end of this next week.

We embrace and accept the Cross, which is sent to us by the loving hand of God. Our sins deserve far, far worse than anything we suffer in this passing, mortal vale of tears. We are grateful for our crosses, seeking to offer up whatever merit we might gain from their patient endurance to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

As I have noted before, I have not written for the short-term. I am attempting to leave behind, for better or for worse as it may be at the moment of my Particular Judgment, a body of work that might help souls to see the world and everything in it more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith long, long after I am dead.

Please pray for us, especially during these last remaining days of Advent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, for us!

Saint Joseph, pray for us!

Saint Peters and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.

Saint Jude, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saint Rita, pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

Saint Gertrude the Great, pray for us.

Saint Albert the Great, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,pray for us.

Saint Agatha, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.

Saint Philip Neri, pray for us.

Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen,

Thomas A. Droleskey, Ph.D.

Publisher-Editor, www.Christ or Chaos.com

 

 

Personal financial gifts that do not qualify for a tax deduction may be sent to:

Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey

Post Office Box 8079

West Chester, Ohio 45069-8079

 

 

 

 

 


 




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