Project Ransom Plan
CHOOSE
Choose one item to sacrifice for a year—preferably a favorite food, beverage, entertainment, or indulgence that you desire on a regular basis. The best sort of sacrifice is one that you will be reminded of frequently.
The scripture is full of places that prove fasting to be not the invention of man but the institution of God, and to have many more profits than one. And that the fasting of one man may do good unto another, our Saviour showeth himself.
- St. Thomas More
There is no more profitable practice as a companion to holy and spiritual fasting than that of almsgiving.
-St. Leo the Great
GIVE
Calculate the amount of money you will save in a year by not purchasing that product and donate that amount to a crisis pregnancy center or other pro-life group of your choosing. Supporting crisis pregnancies in your particular area is a more immediate way of loving your neighbor and is a good place for your Ransom savings.
By giving up buying a latte for one year, you can save $20 a week for 52 weeks.
That is $1,040 in one year.
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Donate that $$ to a group that supports and protects life, while offering up your sacrifice each day for the sake of saving lives and transforming hearts.
Now you are helping to build a Culture of Life!
PRAY
Each time you are tempted by your sacrificial item, consciously offer up that little suffering to Christ with a prayer for the radical conversion of hearts all across our country. Offer it from your heart with great love—love for God’s law, for the unborn babies, for the mothers pressured and scared, for the fathers feeling out of control, for our broken culture that so badly needs light and life and renewal!
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much, more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off.
-St. Teresa of Avila
Our Lord does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
SAVE
The Catholic doctrine of Redemptive Suffering is that Christ continually offers us the graces of His Redemption. The crosses we carry on earth, when offered up for intentions, are one of His chosen ways of calling His graces down upon the earth.
