Dear friends and visitors,
Three years ago this month, the Catholic Doors Ministry was born and officially opened its website on May 1, 1999. What started as a few Bible Courses, followed by homilies, has become one of the largest Catholic websites on the Internet with over 5,000 webpages.
During April, the website was moved to a new server in order to permit us to expand. Having previously been limited to 60 megabytes of space, the Catholic Doors Ministry now has 500 MB available for expansion. (It should be noted that the cost for the space allocation with this new service was cheaper than small servers.) Another reason for moving was because since last June, we could not obtain accurate statistics as to our traffic. Our previous server experienced frequent breakdowns and lost of data. While it was suspected that the Catholic Doors Ministry was now enjoying about 1,500 visitors per day, the raw logs of the last three weeks indicate that this ministry now enjoys from 2,500 to 2,950 visitors per day.
In April, over 72,000 visitors will have visited the Catholic Doors Ministry. And over 3,000,000,000 bytes in bandwidth will have been used up, this being equal to downloading about 1,000,000 type- written pages of 3,000 bytes each. Praise the Holy Spirit for having led so many to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
With the new expansion, the cost to operate this internet ministry has gone up. Although no donations were received during April, 2002, I trust in the Holy Spirit to continue to provide the needs of the Catholic Doors Ministry.
Below, you will find a list of what was accomplished during the past month.
In the love of Jesus and Mary, Fr. Maurice Levesque
April 29, 2002
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Annual Fund-Raising Campaign
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/funds2.htm
During April, 2002, the Catholic Doors Ministry did not receive one donation from its over 72,000 visitors who have used our evangelizing ministry.
Those who wish to support our Internet Ministry, you may do so by completing the Donation Form at http://www.catholicdoors.com/donation.htm and mailing it to:
Catholic Doors Ministry,
P. O. Box 7615,
Saskatoon, SK,
S7K 4R4, Canada.
All financial contributions of $10.00 or more shall be acknowledged with a beautiful "Supporter Award." For contributions of $ 15.00 or more, I shall send those supporters a free copy of the complete website of the Catholic Doors Ministry on "CD disk. " Normally, this CD disk is sold for $ 19.95.
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Catechism
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/catechis/index.htm
During April was added the cross-references of paragraphs 1 to 1199. Also, you will now find the addition of the Abbreviations at the end of the index and the document "Fidei Depositum" at the beginning.
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Homilies
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/index.htm
During April, 2002, the website gained 6 new homilies for May. These are:
May 01, 2002 - St. Joseph the Worker
May 05, 2002 - 6 th Sunday of Easter
May 12, 2002 - Ascension of the Lord
May 19, 2002 - Pentecost Sunday
May 26, 2002 - Trinity Sunday
May 31, 2002 - Visitation of Mary
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Liturgical Calendars
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/liturgy/index.htm
The Monthly Liturgical Calendars for June to November, 2002 were added to the website, this completing this year's liturgical cycle.
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Online Shopping Store
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/promo/shopping.htm
In the hope of raising funds to maintain the Catholic Doors Ministry, an Online Shopping Store has been created. When visiting this webpage, you will find banners to click on, either to enter the Book Store, the VHS Store, a Web Hosting Service, AOL or the Poster Shop. If you or someone you know shops online for these services, please consider using the Catholic Doors Ministry Online Store so this ministry can receive a commission from the sales.
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Freebies to Grab
@ http://www.catholicdoors.com/promo/f reebies.htm
Everyone loves freebies! And everyone wants a computer with the best and, if possible, free programs. This page lists some programs that you should consider downloading on your computer, that is if you have a use for them.
At present, you will find a free anti-virus program, an email manager, a graphic viewer, a pop-up stopper, and a screen saver. These programs have all been tested. Some of them have been used for nearly 3 years by the Catholic Doors Ministry.
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