Can we help the Sisters reach their fundraising target for Sister Mary Savio’s care by tomorrow morning?
Dear Readers,
This is an update on Sister Mary Savio’s dramatic quadruple surgery – and a request that readers of The WM Review help her family’s fundraiser get over the $92,000 line.
I’m only going to send you this one last email about their fundraiser.
So far, they’ve raised 82% – that’s $74,583 – in five days.
That’s an incredible result.
I could see a lot of WM Review readers clicked through to her fundraiser.
And I was really pleased to see some familiar names in the list of donations after we sent the email out.
What would be really great to see is the Sisters reaching their target before the next round of surgery starts.
Or even before tomorrow morning….
Can we help them hit that remaining $17,417 today?
In the previous email I sent on this matter, I told you that Sr Mary Savio had really serious brain surgery earlier in the year.
Her parents explained in the GoFundMe that these four operations were to treat:
A replacement of the L5 disc in her lower spine
May-Thurner syndrome, a compression of a major vein in the pelvis
Nutcracker syndrome, a compression of the vein draining the left kidney
Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome, a compression of the small intestine that makes eating painful and has contributed to her weight loss
The surgery started at 8am on Friday.
It lasted for four hours.
A few hours in, her family gave an update on Facebook:
“Thank you to everyone from my family for the prayers. Please continue them. Sister Mary Savio has made it through the first two procedures, the spine prosthetic and May-Thurner compression. Everything is stable. The doctors are going to continue with the next two procedures.”
However, the doctors then decided to delay the remaining operations, and give Sister Mary Savio the time to recover. They’re supposed to take place this week.
It’s more important than ever that Catholics support communities like the Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas.
Why’s that? Well, here’s what Pope Pius VI wrote about such congregations, in his 1791 letter Quod aliquantum, on Revolutionary France’s “Civil Constitution of the Clergy”:
“[N]uns, that most distinguished portion of the flock of the Catholic faithful, have often warded off the greatest scourges by means of their prayer:
“‘If there had been no consecrated virgins in Rome,’ says St. Gregory the Great, ‘not one of us for many years past would have escaped the swords of the Lombards’.
“Benedict XIV renders the same tribute to the religious women of Bologna: ‘This city, buffeted by so many calamities for so many years, would not be standing today if the prayers of the nuns had not appeased the ire of God.”1
In other words: some cities would not even be standing today, were it not for the prayers of consecrated women.
(That reminds me of God’s promise to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if just ten just men were found there. We’re going to need these prayers as things go forward…)
Pope Clement XIV also taught about the outstanding benefits these congregations provide for the Church:
“It is indubitable that among those elements which work most effectively for the good and the well-being of Christian society, the first place must be given to the religious Orders from which the Universal Church of Christ has received in every age assistance, help, and adornment.
“That is why this Apostolic See, not content with approving and encouraging them, has showered benefits upon them – exemptions, privileges, and powers – in order to incite them by these means to constant progress in piety and holiness, in the moral instruction of the faithful by word and example, in maintaining and strengthening the unity of the faith among believers.”2
If you don’t support religious communities – don’t be surprised the awful results that follow:
In place of progress in piety and holiness, we’ll have impiety and sin
In place of moral instruction, we’ll have degeneracy and degradation
In place of the unity of faith, we’ll have heresy and division.
Sister Mary Savio’s fundraiser is the perfect opportunity to provide real, material support to a faithful religious congregation – currently suffering urgent need.
Wouldn’t it be great to see the Sisters hit the target by tomorrow morning?
Perhaps you haven’t given yet – and were waiting to see if they could do it themselves. Well, they’re still 18% down.
Perhaps you’ve already given – but you’d like to give again.
Whichever it is: will you help the Sisters TODAY to pay for Sister Mary Savio’s extensive medical interventions?
The Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas were founded by Bishops Donald Sanborn and Joseph Selway, and they are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Institute and Most Holy Trinity Seminary.
They hold to the authentic Catholic faith – rejecting the new religion of Vatican II.
Their precise position is the Thesis of Cassiciacum – that the Holy See is currently vacant formaliter (whilst being occupied materialiter).
The Sisters are especially dedicated to the education of Catholic children. An important part of the congregation’s activity is running Queen of All Saints Academy – which teaches in-person classes in Florida, and has an innovative remote learning programme for the rest of the world.
The Devil hates faithful religious orders – as is clear from the satanic revolutions of history, which have always struck at them with great brutality.
He must be filled with even more rage when they are engaged in helping educate Catholic youth.
I think this is what prompted some of the obnoxious online treatment of the Sisters earlier in the year.
When they advertised a vocations retreat for young women, a certain Fr Matthew Schneider – a member of the Legionaries of Christ (the congregation founded by the disgraced priest, drug addict, sexual offender (of individuals of both sexes) and a father of six illegitimate children, Marcial Maciel) – decided to accuse them of being in schism.
Schneider – also known for his podcasts on Vatican II, and his enthusiasm for the COVID vaccines – also accused the Sisters of being “the real modernists”!
A community, like the Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas, that openly confesses that the Church is suffering an extended vacancy of the Holy See will always struggle to raise funds when compared to those that do not.
And they need the funds to support their members through thick and thin.
But while Marcial Maciel’s Legionaries of Christ and other Vatican II communities had no need to worry about finances (at least while their “Founder” was alive), congregations like the Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas can’t rely on big bailouts from the Novus Ordo establishment.
They’re dependent on ordinary Catholics like us.
Seeing as the Sisters are dedicating themselves to maintaining a traditional religious life, and providing a Catholic education for children all over the world, can you give them a hand and help them reach the remaining $17,417 needed for Sr Mary Savio?
And while you’re at it – make sure you share the GoFundMe with anyone who you think would like to help:
Thanks and all the best,
S.D. Wright
Editor of The WM Review
PS: Last week, the Sisters announced a Novena to St Thérèse in the days leading up to her feast on October 3rd, for Sister Mary Savio’s intentions.
If you can’t afford to give, then that would be a good way to support them.
But if everyone reading this email gave $30 TODAY, they’d reach 100% of their total by the morning.
PPS: Religious communities are dependent on the support of the faithful.
But the faithful are also dependent on them too.
I already told you what Pope Benedict XIV said in Bologna:
“This city, buffeted by so many calamities for so many years, would not be standing today if the prayers of the nuns had not appeased the ire of God.”
I can’t list all the ways in which the world is falling apart right now. We need holy religious sisters, or it’s game over.
You know very well that an appeal like this is a very rare occurrence at The WM Review – and I won’t be sending another email about it.
So please take this last reminder as an opportunity to help them reach their target tonight:
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Papal Teachings – The Church, n. 98.
Pope Clement XIV Apostolic Constitution Dominus ac Redemptor, July 21, 1773, Papal Teachings: The Church, n. 16.