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Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 199
Monroe, Connecticut 06468
June 28, 2008, Fund-Raising Appeal Letter
Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 199• Monroe, Connecticut 06468
June 28, 2008
Dear Friends:
As we are about as close to being without any money as we have been in the past five years since we lost the support of a private foundation, this fund-raising appeal letter page is being updated.
Help!
As I have noted in past letters, there would be no need to make emergency appeals if those in the readership of this site who support its work and have the financial means to be of assistance would make regular contributions of as little as between two and five dollars per month. That such non-tax-deductible gifts have not materialized as of yet is all in God's Holy Providence, as is the fact that the new video lecture website is proving to be a complete and total disaster insofar as generating sales from large numbers of people.
We do nevertheless need to raise funds to pay our bills and to support ourselves.
We have expended almost all of our available funds on our regular expenses and monthly bills after having to spend $600 to pay for the repairs to the Trail Blazer after the lug nuts caused the studs to snap and the left wheel to come off of the axle as it wobbled along next to the car until we stopped.
Here is a review of our monthly expenses, which I have itemized for you in the past:
Monthly payment for the Chevrolet Trail Blazer: $399.00
Monthly payment for insurance on the Trail Blazer: $176.00
Monthly payment for insurance on the motor home: $168.00
Monthly payment for cellular phone service: $175.00 (two different numbers)
Monthly payment to pay off two closed credit card accounts: $411.00
Monthly payment for life insurance policy: $70.00
Monthly payment for fax service: $36.00
Monthly payment for website hosting: $25.00
Weekly laundromat expenses: $25.00
Monthly dry cleaning expenses: $40.00
Weekly expenses for gasoline (only necessary driving to purchase groceries or to dump the waste water in the motor home will be done during the summer): $100.00.
Monthly expenses for groceries and supplies: $300.00
Monthly expenses for paper and ink jet cartridges: $125.00
Other monthly miscellaneous expenses (for car repairs, unexpected emergencies, medication): $200.00
Total of monthly expenses: $2075.00
And, of course, we have recouped only about $2200 of the monies we had to spend in May for the repair of the front end of the Trail Blazer, which totaled $8375.35.
What can I say? We do not look for these crosses. They find us. It is better this than Purgatory (or worse). We bear our crosses with gratitude for their having been sent to us. And while I am trying to secure academic employment , I must appeal to what appears to a substantially dwindling number of readers who access this site to help us out.
Mind you, the number of people who access this site, no less who support its work, is all within God's Holy Providence. The work is done to give honor and glory to God and to try to help souls see the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith. It would be, as I have noted so many times before, helpful to receive financial gifts from readers who have never given before and who support the work of this site and have the means to be of some modest help to us, especially now.
We entrust all to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as we prepare to celebrate the great feast of the Most Sacred Heart of her Divine Son this coming Friday, May 30, 2008, the forty-ninth anniversary of my First Holy Communion at Saint Aloysius Church in Great Neck, New York.
Can we count on your help--today?
As always, we remain grateful to those good and generous souls who have been so kind to us, without whose assistance we would not have been able to pay bills in major emergencies or to even meet our daily expenses. We simply need more of this site's readership (those, once again, who have the means to make gifts and who support the work of the site) to join their ranks on a regular basis. I do not believe that this is asking too much.
Those who do support the work of this site but who cannot make a donation should have no compunction whatsoever about reading my articles. Just as it is the case that each of us is supported by the prayers of many people whom we will only meet personally in eternity, please God and by His Most Blessed Mother's maternal intercession we die in states of Sanctifying Grace, so is it the case that financial gifts offered by those able to offer them make it possible for those without the means to donate to have access to this site. Those who cannot support the work of this site financially but who do profit from its contents should simply pray for the site's benefactors in thanksgiving for making it possible for the work to continue.
Once again, as should be obvious, we are not asking those who do not support and/or are adamantly opposed to the work of site to be at all sympathetic to this request. We are simply asking those who do support the work of this site--and who have the financial means to make a donation--to make a gift, either by PayPal (click on the icon above or below) or via the "snail mail" to our post office box in Connecticut, as soon as possible. As noted above, if only a fraction of those gave us between $2 and $5 right now we would be able to meet the expenses itemized above and to meet our monthly expenses. Please consider helping us today.
As I have noted frequently in the past two years now, donations to us personally are not tax-deductible. "All" you will get for supporting the work of this site is the eternal merit for your generosity--and a remembrance of your intentions in our daily prayers. Remember, any one individual can make a gift of up to $12,000.00 in any calendar year without any tax liability to them or to us.
We are always in need of your generosity to meet our daily and monthly expenses.
Will you help us out?
Please know of our prayers every day.
Our Lady of Good Success, pray for us!
Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Saint Peters and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint Gertrude, pray for us.
Saint John Eudes, pray for us
Saint Hyacinth, for us.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,pray for us.
Saint Irenaeus, pray for us.
Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen,
Thomas A. Droleskey
Personal gifts that do not qualify for a tax deduction may be sent to:
Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 199
Monroe, Connecticut 06468
