BENEFITS:
All Donors: We'll put your name on our prayer list and pray for you by
name at all our meetings.
$25 Donors: We'll put your name on our St. Margaret Mary World Youth Day Team flag / banner, which we will take with us to all the events during the week of World Youth Day, and we'll pray for you by name each day during the pilgrimage. Also, you will be formally invited to our Benefactors' Dinners in the Spring and Late Summer.
$50 Donors: The preceding benefits, plus we'll take sacramentals (rosaries, medals, etc.) with us to get blessed by Pope Benedict.
$100 Donors: The preceding benefits, plus a free St. Margaret Mary World Youth Day Team T-Shirt.
$500 Donors: The preceding, plus a free DVD of our trip, and we'll purchase for you any merchandise in Australia that you request and pay us for, provided it can be carried back with us or mailed. Also, you'll get your portrait drawn on our flag. Furthermore, we will commit to doing at least five volunteer service hours in a particular organization that you recommend, and you will receive a report of the results of the work and the volunteer's experience.
$3,000 Donors: If you have the means, please consider sponsoring one or more individual pilgrims, at $ 3,000 per pilgrim. In addition to all the benefits listed above, the pilgrim you sponsor will keep you, your loved ones and your intentions in their daily prayers from the day of donation till they get back. The pilgrim you sponsor will spend time in Eucharist Adoration, remembering you and your intentions for your generosity. They will make a commitment to keep you informed about how they spent your donation and they will keep their pilgrimage experiences in a journal, with photos, that will be presented to you at the final Benefactor’s Dinner. They will try as much as possible to keep you as a spiritual companion throughout their journey. Also, the pilgrim(s) will put at least 30 hours into volunteer service work in an organization that you, the sponsor, recommend, in honor of your gift, and you will be informed of how the volunteer experience went, receive pictures, etc.
Creative service donations: There is also the option for a donor to propose a certain number of service hours at an organization, at their own home or other place where there is a task to be done, for a donation per hour or project.
Gifts and Memorials: Donations can be made as gifts or memorials in the name of other people.
All donors, or those in whose name the donation is made, will be (unless donor requests otherwise) listed on our web page through August, 2008.
