The accounts below are excerpts from actual correspondence from priests, their names have been omitted to protect their identities.
The depression and paranoia for so many of us priests is all too real as you well know and so your prayers mean so very much - they really do.
Thanks for all you do for our wounded priests and religious. You are an unsung hero to all of us.
I'm deeply grateful to you for literally sacrificing your life for all our priests who are suffering and in crisis. I know you say it often in your appeal letters, but the God's honest truth is that we would have no one else to turn to without YOUR loving, compassionate care.
I just want to thank you for the work your organization is providing and supporting my brother priests who are struggling. Please know that I will always hold your ministry and all my brother priests in my prayers.
Thank you for everything you do especially for caring.
I hope all involved with M.O.M. realize just how much good they do and the Blessing they are to so many priests. I know problem priests deeply appreciate your kindness. Peace and Blessings to Men of Melchizedek.
Myself and many, many priests are so grateful to you for what you've done over the years. You are a blessing!
If anyone knows about the challenge of changing one's life course, you have seen it happen in dramatic ways in the men you have assisted over the years and you have "preached" a message of hope and trust in God to many disheartened souls. No one else seems to be interested in doing it.
I appreciated the time you gave me, when we spoke some months ago on the phone. It helped. Thank you.
May God bless you and those who work with you. There is a place and need for it, especially in the lives of the men who are being affected by the struggles we're facing today. Priests did things they should not have done and bishops should have handled things differently than they did, which is being addressed openly today.
Satan is certainly taking advantage of every opportunity to do his best to prevent or frustrate the healing process for survivors, the faithful, priests in distress, and those who offended. It's like continually breaking a bone that could heal with proper care, but can't due to renewed pulling and twisting.
Thank you for 'being there'. A quaint phrase, but the meaning is more than that. Out of the blue, you offered encouragement and support; aside from family and close friends, the like I'd not encountered for many years. I know from your stories that I'm not alone with these sentiments.
For so much more than you might be aware, I am deeply grateful.
I just want to take a moment to thank you and your team for the truly life-saving work you do on behalf of priests who have been removed from active ministry.
As you know, the circumstances in which we live makes it challenging to find the kind of work that would allow us to fully support ourselves. I, for one, live pretty close to the edge, and without your support I wouldn't make it.
When a major bill hits, like an unexpected car repair or medical bill, there's simply no way to come up with that extra cash. I can't tell you how much more bearable life is for me just knowing that you are there and you will do what you can to help. You give me the hope of being able to continue on.
I continue to offer daily Mass and pray the Liturgy of the Hours and always remember you and the great work you do for us priests, especially my brothers who are incarcerated or have been removed and/or dismissed from their dioceses without (or with very little) warrant.
I offer a daily Chaplet of Reparation, for myself and all my brother priests, encouraged by that inspirational anonymous book, In Sinu Jesu – When Heart Speaks to Heart, so that I might receive the grace to remain dedicated to the salvation of souls, especially priests, just as you have taken up the mission to help us priests carry our crosses of humiliation, leprosy, incarceration, ostracization, and abandonment.
Never once did I ever imagine I would find myself in this position, but now that I am, I cannot thank you enough.
Honestly. There is no way to thank you for making me feel like a person, a child of God, one sincerely contrite with my whole heart, soul and being, who, like that one lost sheep, am daily lifted upon your shoulders and placed in the welcoming arms of Our Lord, Jesus.
Please know of my daily prayers that your mission will continue to provide spiritual, human, friendly, loving, and when necessary, financial support made possible by the Holy Spirit’s encouragement to other like-minded men and women who must realize that even Catholic priests are mere human men, vulnerable like everyone else, but most importantly, like everyone else, also worth praying and fighting for. After all, isn’t that the whole point of the cross of Jesus Christ and His willing self-sacrifice?
God bless you always for everything you do for me and the many other priests who might otherwise be homeless, discarded and shunned.
Please know of my most sincere and heartfelt gratitude but most especially please know that your real reward will not be any thanks received from me or anyone else here on earth. Rather, you too, I am sure, will be asked to bear your crosses and will one day receive your true reward…in heaven.