The Catholic Way to Shop

I found about this neat service this morning, just in time for some online ordering for Christmas!

What also caught me right away was the fact that the second charity listed is a place we send a Christmas check every year--a beautiful Benedictine Abbey in Colorado we got to know well when my brother did his post-doc in Boulder and we traveled to Colorado often to visit. They have kept the traditional habit and sing Gregorian Chant just as the nuns in my grade school in Rio did. (In my heart there lives a desire to be an oblate there one day--God willing).

Here is some more information about it as I received in one of the Catholic homeschool forums this morning:

Here's a great way to help the Catholic cause of your choice without costing you anything. BTW, one of the guys who's behind this is a TAC grad who's from a homeschooling family:

Hello everyone, I want to invite you to use a new website for your online shopping. It is called GivingCart. You can raise money for a Catholic cause of your choice by using GivingCart to initiate your shopping. Let me tell you how it works.

GivingCart lists links to hundreds of online stores. When you use one of their links to shop, GivingCart earns a commission. GivingCart then passes on the bulk of the commission to the Catholic cause of your choice. GivingCart has links to over 350 stores (including Amazon, eBay, eBay motors, GAP, Staples, Travelocity) and many more. Making a purchase through GivingCart will never cost you extra.

Here is a link to an article in the Denver Archdiocesan newspaper that introduces GivingCart. GivingCart is a project my son, Ben Dunlap, has been working on for over a year. Please consider using GivingCart for your Christmas shopping. Thank you, Vicki Dunlap