Thank you for a moment of your time. I believe every parish, and even
every home, will
benefit from a Eucharistic Miracle display. Blessed Carlo Acutis
cataloged many Eucharistic Miracles before passing away at the age of 15;
his holy life continues to inspire many people and his cause for
canonization is underway! Each story can be printed and displayed on a
11” by 17” print.
As a team member of St. Paul Street Evangelization in southern Arizona, I developed a display for these prints. Many people have been impressed. A picture is worth a thousand words!
I’m a University of Arizona doctor of pharmacy graduate, class of 2006.
I’ve worked in hospice, LTC consulting, mail-order, Medication Therapy
Management (MedicineReviews.org), as a community / retail pharmacist, and
most recently as a clinical hospital pharmacist. I regularly wear the
brown scapular. This scapular has often been visible to my
colleagues... moreover, before beginning work at the hospital, I notified my
employer that I am Catholic and would not facilitate dispensing substances
for an abortion. I suppose news of this traveled and one colleague
consistently treated me poorly, making it difficult for me to carry out my
responsibilities and creating strife within the team. After five
months, I decided to resign, having reported my concerns to the director
with little change in mutual respect and appreciation so that trust might
flourish for optimum patient care.
It was depressing. On October 12th, three days after
sending notice of resignation, I stayed in bed late trying to sort through
my emotions. I offered a rosary and decided I would try to
follow-through with an endeavor to bring the plan I had for the Eucharistic
Miracle displays to fruition. I discussed the plan with my wife Maria,
and grabbing the display I had used several times before during St. Paul
Street Evangelization activities, sat down in the family room beside my
mother to explain the plans and also seek her advice. As I sat rocking
in the chair, I noticed the date on the last Eucharistic panel of the
display… October 12th. It was the day the Bishop of the
Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa announced through a Pastoral Letter the
recognition of the Eucharistic Miracle that occurred at Tixtla! We were all
amazed that it was the exact same day 10 years earlier!
God has often used special dates in my life to signify His loving care,
which I’ve written about in a free book you can download at
LifeisSacred.net. Nonetheless, my amazement had only begun… later that
evening, tuning to EWTN News, I realized that October 12th is
also Carlo Acutis’ feast day! Neither of these dates were something I
was conscious of, nor something I had planned for when I decided to give
notice of resignation on October 8th.
God works in marvelous ways! These correlations have deepened my conviction to pursue this endeavor. I hope you too will be inspired and consider a survey answering a few questions to help me guage interest in this project.
I have requested permission to reproduce the images by contacting the estate
of Carlo Acutis, sending an email to info@carloacutis.com, and have received
permission, providing that I do not do this work for a profit. In this
respect, I have calculated the material costs and the amount and cost of
labor in producing a display, the latter with respect to minimum wage for
secretarial work and in accordance with an average hourly wage for carpentry
work, and have listed those expenses below for your consideration.
Nonetheless, you can order only the display unit without the images if you’d
prefer to print and laminate them yourself. To examine the survey
questions,
please visit:
PureHeartCulture.org/EM_Survey.html
Thank you for your consideration and time. May God richly bless you!
Cost / Expenses:
·
Musician's Gear Die-Cast Mic Stand Black: $31.82
(musiciansfriend.com, shipped directly to you from distributor to avoid
duplicating shipping expenses)
·
On-Stage MA-100 5/8 inch Female to Male Microphone Thread Adapter:
$5.25 (sweetwater.com)
·
Eleven 11” x 17” Eucharistic Miracle prints from Carlo Acutis’ website
(standard laser paper): $0.90 x 11 = $12.05 (single sided color
prints from UPS @ $0.90 per print plus $4.99 standard service fee in batches
of at least 44 prints at a time *this expense is optional if you’d prefer
only the display [standard panels printed and in order of appearance as
packaged in box are: Presentation Panel A (introduction to work of Carlo
Acutis and the Eucharastic Miracles); Buenos Aires panel #3; Guadalupe;
Lanciano panels 1 & 2; Miraculous Communions panels 1 & 2; Krakow, Poland;
Portugal, Blessed Alexandria de Costa; Betania; Tixtla Panel 1
·
11.5” x 17.5” Laminating sheets x11 $0.27 x 11 = $2.96
(amazon.com) *also optional
·
Cost of 15 cm stainless steel cable ties to hang prints on dowel:
$0.13 x 3 = $0.39 (ebay.com)
·
Secretarial Labor @ minimum wage of $13.85/hr
1 hour = $13.85 *also optional for time to insert and laminate
prints, punch holes, attach to display, otherwise 30 minutes of labor to
package the unit for shipment and deliver to post office = $6.93
·
Cost of lumber (two 8’ 2x4’s pine wood): $3.25 / 4 = $0.94; 2
units produced per 2x4, (Lowes.com)
·
Cost of lumber (two 36” dowels ½” thick): $3.28 / 4.5 = $1.45;
4.5 units produced with 2 dowels, (AceHardware.com)
·
PolyShades Wood stain (2 tablespoons, 10mL per coat, total of three
coats): $0.70, $22.11 per quart (946 mL), (Lowes.com), or Almond oil,
15mL, 1 coat, $0.35, $19.64/quart (eBay)
·
Sandpaper (grades: 60, 150, 220 & 1500 grit): 1/8th sheet of each
grade per unit: ½ sheet total per unit = $0.67 / unit ($5.99/5 sheets
HarborFreight.com)
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Wood glue (Titebond III Ultimate, 16 oz): $0.11, 1 teaspoon
(5mL) per unit; (Lowes.com)
·
Carpenter work @ Arizona average of $23/hour based on Ziprecruiter.com
estimate: 4 hours = $92.00 (time to obtain lumber, measure, cut
& drill, sand, affix pieces together, *apply 3 coats wood finish of choice,
or if selecting one coat almond oil finish for natural / golden pine
appearance, -40 minutes: $76.67)
·
UPS Ground Shipping + Shipping Box Cost + Bubble Wrap + Tape:
$13.79 (@UPS dimensional weight) + $2.82 for one 22” x 16” x 4” cardboard
box (Staples.com) + $0.73 for 40” bubble wrap 24” x 175’ (staples.com) +
$0.06 for 36” tape per box (Walmart.com) = $17.46.
