You can help a struggling student for Lent

Last updated on: December 31, 2014 at 2:27 pm by Mark Shea

You can help a struggling student for Lent 2014-12-31T14:27:48-07:00 Mark Shea

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And even get something back on the deal, so it’s not even quite almsgiving!

A reader writes:

My youngest daughter is struggling to pay her monthly FUS tuition payments. Somehow with our piddling help she’s only two months behind……. Last week she informed me that she’s running out of her cafeteria points, to save $ this year she opted out of the more expensive meal plans, work study is cut way back, her older sister could get 25 plus hours before the economic fall, now this one is lucky to get 10, so many families are struggling now, that had plenty before. And today she got the tuition/r&b; rate increase mailing for next year. I was really praying it wouldn’t happen this year! So I’m doing something I’ve never done before, plugging a book.

This summer OLIVIA hatched a plan to make MILLIONS, yes MILLIONS. She has a little book of poetry on Lulu, but who has time to market? She’s sold several dozen and every bit helps. Could you ask your readers to pray for a future starving artist in the making. She has done everything from singing at weddings, to scrubbing toilets, to get through. If any one is moved to take a chance on a tiny book of poetry from a youngster it goes toward her monthly tuition payment at FUS where she is a Sacred Music Voice and Theology double major. She hopes to be able to get a CD maybe this summer. But that takes more bucks.

Find “THE SOUL SINGS” here, it costs $10.50. (Don’t ask me if it’s good, I’m the mom who holds in tears when looking at art, listening to poetry and watching ballet. And that’s not even for my kids.)

Olivia blogs about her book last summer on her blog Splendid and Delicious here.

This may be pathetic request when so many others need so much more but here goes. If you have the time and inclination to post a little blurb to send them to her lulu account or her blog she would be grateful.

Keep up the great work. Your sense of humor has brightened some not so great days.

C’mon folks! We’re talking two cups of Starbucks here and you help a young faith-filled Catholic get her education so she can serve God and his Church with might and main. Plus, you get some beauty in return! How Lenten is that? What’s not to love? Unleash the power of the blog!

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