"KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE", BUT UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN THE TRUTH HAS COST MANAGEMENT AND SPREAD WITH ALL WHO HAVE HAD TO DO THE ACCOUNTS, FROM SHEPHERDS IN CARE OF SOULS TO MISSIONARY EVANGELIZERS

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The Gospels tell us that the apostles left their jobs, their homes and their families to follow the Word of God made man, Christ the Lord. But the Gospels and the Apostolic Letters also tell that the apostles, for their life support necessary for their work of evangelization, They were supported by generous benefactors and benefactors.

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Authors
Giovanni Cavalcoli, o.p – Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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"The presbyters that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching; in fact the Scripture says: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading”; it's still: “The laborer is worthy of his wages”» [The Tm 5, 17-18]

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Dear Readers,

availability today on behalf of The Island of Patmos

Also this year will address an appeal with pleasure, fear and worry, explaining the reasons for this our feeling.

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The pleasure, to be understood as understandable satisfaction, it is given by the fact that The Island of Patmos It is among the top ten most visited Catholic telematic magazines in Europe. We started this year 2018 leaving behind a year that ended on 31 December 2017 with an equal number to 8.230.271 visit. The total number, from the 20 October 2014, opening date de The Island of Patmos, today is equal to a total of 17.077.789 visit.

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Our webmaster and curator of the site He explained that the actual number is much higher than seventeen million visits totaled in three years, with a peak reached in the year on a high 2017. The internal counter in fact detects only the network connection, but to a single network can sometimes be connected dozens of different computer, as from the average home network can be connected to multiple computers. For this she had us in mind that the actual visits are at least equal to three times.

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Fear, it is given by the fact that The Island of Patmos, as we have repeatedly stated there, it is argued only with the offerings of its Readers. And what we feel every time we are forced to ask for your help, is a sense of fear mixed with a sense of human decency typical of those who, like us, routinely take, But do not ask.

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The worry, it is instead due to the understandable human emotion that leads us to fear not being able to do it, because together with the satisfactory increase in visits - which in our now more than three years of life have never known decline but growing - unfortunately grow hand in hand also the operating expenses we incur.

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If until last year we faced management fees for 5.200 Euro, starting this year the expenses had increased up to 8.000 Euro. The largest item of expenditure for the 2018 it will be there server, the cost of which is around 4.000 Euro. The growing body of visits obliges us to move from the current to "unlimited access service", whose total cost is 1.200 euro per year, to a server autonomous, the cost of which is nearly four times. Unfortunately, the "unlimited access", They have a limit in their own way, In fact, as you may have noticed many times it happened that instead of opening the page de The Island of Patmos It appeared notice '503 error', with the underlying written in English indicating the site temporarily blocked, something due to the high number of visits.

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During the month of January we hope to be able to collect the necessary amount for the year operating expenses 2018, otherwise ... we start to have some serious problem.

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As most readers will have noticed, Father Ariel has entered the page de The Island of Patmos the Book of Masses [see WHO]. If you open the Calendar-Calendar of Masses [see WHO], you will find listed at the end of the year 2017 the account tenders submitted, all designed by the Father Ariel to the running costs of The Island of Patmos, although the offer for Mass, also called scholarship, It is the priest's staff and bound itself to his livelihood.

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During the year 2017 We received offers from readers, we thank with deep gratitude. Some have subscribed to our support through a monthly payment PayPal, Also to all of them we are deeply grateful.

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Together with our gratitude, we must inform you that we have arrived at the beginning of this new year with a fund deposited in our account 728,17 Euro, compared to an expense of about face 8.000 Euro.

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Like every year we appeal to your generosity, inviting loyal readers and willing to want to take out even a small monthly contribution for the year 2018.

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If our apostolic work is God's work, pleasing to God for the service of his holy church which now sails in the storm; if our work is truly imprinted on John's guiding principle "you know the truth and the truth shall make you free" [GV 8,32] Also this year we will be able to solve the problem and to cover the costs. If we do not succeed, In this case it means that we were wrong in anything, or maybe even more things. It will then be for us a holy lesson providence faith, as equally holy faith will be a lesson to any lack of providence, because obviously not deserved.

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Thank you assuring you the best wishes for a happy start to the year 2018 in the grace of God and under the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of the Church.

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it gives The island of Patmos, 12 January 2018

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«You will know the truth and the truth will set you free» [GV 8,32],
but bring, spread and defend the truth not only of
risks but also the costs. Help us supporting this Island
with your offers through the secure Paypal system:

or you can use the bank account:
They were IT 08 (J) 02008 32974 001436620930
in this case, send us an email warning, because the bank
It does not provide your email and we could not send you a
thanks [ isoladipatmos@gmail.com ]

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