2018 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Dear Friend,
You are vital to our 800-year-old Franciscan mission!
Perhaps you already mailed your renewal gift and our letters simply crossed in the mail. If that’s the case, please accept my heartfelt gratitude for your continuing support of the Monastery.
But if you haven’t had an opportunity to renew your Membership for 2018, I pray you’ll continue your devotion to the Monastery, the Friars, and the Holy Land by sending your 2018 Renewal gift of $25 or more back to me right away.
With your support, you are a source of hope and healing.
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As one of the most dedicated supporters of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, you bring hope to the faithful here at home in the U.S. and in the Holy Land.
You bring others closer to Our Lord and His Gospel.
And you help keep Christianity alive in a hurting and increasingly divided and secular world.
My dear Friend, at the Monastery — your Monastery — our sacred relics and replicas of Christianity’s holiest shrines provide our brothers and sisters in Christ with the opportunity to connect to the Holy Land and the story of Our Lord’s salvific mission. As the connection to the Holy Land in America, we share a critical role in our Christian faith.
We rely on your faithful support to bring the glory of the Holy Land to life right here at home. We depend on you to help us maintain this special place where so many people come to discover and deepen their faith.
And together, we bring awareness about the continuing struggles and persecution Christians are facing in the Holy Land to the thousands of pilgrims and visitors who come to the Monastery every year.
My dear friend, our holy mission is too important to ever be put on hold due to lack of financial support. We need you!
In the U.S. and in the Holy Land, Christianity and Christians are threatened …
There is a crisis of faith of sorts in many communities — the family unit threatened, prayer and speech silenced, and human dignity and the sanctity of life denied. But as long as places like the Franciscan Monastery of Holy Land in America exist and the work of the Franciscan Friars can continue, Christianity and Christians will endure.
Franciscan Friars are keeping Christianity alive in the Holy Land while we keep the Holy Land and our Franciscan mission alive here at home.
If you’ve ever visited the Monastery, you’ve been blessed to experience our century-old gardens and replicas of holy places. If you haven’t, I hope someday soon you’ll visit us for Mass in our beautiful church, to pray the Rosary along the Rosary Portico, for a guided tour, or to attend one of the many special events we hold.
Saint Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan order in the 13th century, said, “We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
Will you do as we have done? Will you answer God’s call to heal, unite and show the lost the way home? I pray you will. I also pray you will continue to support our monastery.
My dear Friend, please, if you haven’t done so, please renew your Membership with your 2018 Renewal gift of $25 or more.
Your prayers and your renewed support would be such a blessing. May the peace of the Lord be with you always.
Yours in Christ,
Father Larry C. Dunham, OFM
Guardian, Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America
P.S. My dear friend, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America depends on friends like you to sustain our holy mission. Please allow me to thank you if you already made your Membership Renewal gift for 2018. If you haven’t renewed your support, please make your 2018 Membership Renewal gift of $25 today.
Guardian, Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America
P.S. My dear friend, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America depends on friends like you to sustain our holy mission. Please allow me to thank you if you already made your Membership Renewal gift for 2018. If you haven’t renewed your support, please make your 2018 Membership Renewal gift of $25 today.