UPDATED Send snail-mail Christmas Cards to Fr. Z – 2016

UPDATE 13 Jan 2017:

I’ll now let this scroll off, but before it goes into history, a few cards are still trickling in:

• Sri Lanka
• Poland
• Lawrenceburg, TN (clearly a 2nd Amendment family’s photo of 8 kids, 3-20 in age, all holding firearms and prayers for that priestly vocation!)

Just because the Christmas card season is over, that doesn’t mean that you can’t send cards.

UPDATE 7 Jan 2017:

• Monheim/Rhein, Germany (thanks again for the TMSM donation!)
• St Paul, MN (Latin and St John of the Cross)
• Columbia, IL (not sure about the piece of cardboard… but, thanks!)
• Singapore (With 5 yr old Joseph’s art – Singapore – I’d like to visit there some day)
• NY, NY (a lot of activity packed on that card!)
• Lincoln, NE (novena of Masses – long letter – 11 kids?)
• Stockton, CA (book)
• Dawson Creek, BC (Mile 0 of Alaska Highway? The internet is very cool.)
• Spokane, WA (thanks!)
• San Jose, CA (moral patch! Nice Batman stamp.)
• Kenai, AK (Alaska stepped up!)

UPDATE 3 Jan 2017:

• Oakland, CA
• Tuscaloosa, AL (thank you and cute kids!)
• Fairfax, VA (NRA!)
• Vero Beach, FL
• Coon Rapids, MN
• FPO AP (card made by Carmelites in Tokyo… very cool)

UPDATE 31 Dec:

• Fredricksburg, VA (lots of kids!)
• Port Washington, OH (unlike some people, I appreciate spiritual bouquets!)
• East Berne, NY (prayers for the not-yet born)
• Vienna, Austria (prayers)
• Battesford, England (yes, perhaps a hat)
• Valencia, CA (time machine!)
• Madison, WI (book)
• Yankeetown, FL
• Broken Arrow, OK (I’m speechless)
• Hutchinson, MN (Ham! – 73)
• Easton, PA (vocation? prayers)
• Åbo, Finland (lovely image on the card)
• Markt Schwaben, Germany (prayers and cool card)
• Košice, Slovakia (nifty stamp!)
• Surrey, BC (hope to see you soon!)
• East Elmhurst, NY (bookmarks)

UPDATE 29 Dec

• Orleans, MA! (revert!)
• Grafton, WI (you are welcome for the PODCAzTs)
• Prince George, BC (confession.. good)
• Kingston, ON (you are welcome)
• Bethesda, MD (nice kids)
• Pamplona, Spain (great penmanship)
• Forest Hills, NY (thank for ongoing help with that nut bar)

UPDATE 28 Dec

• Huntsville, AL
• Vienna, Austria (You are welcome!)
• Morrisville, PA, (Masses)
• GP Farms, MI (card within a card)
• Westminster, MD
• New Paltz, NY (great stamps and polaroid!)
• Faribault, MN (cute kids)
• Mt. Clemens, MI

UPDATE 27 Dec

• Madison, WI
• Summit, NJ (Thanks, Sisters)
• Janesville, WI (lots of great kids)
• Alexandria, VA (stamps!)
• Dundee, MI (Masses)
• Wylie, TX
• Santa Rosa, CA
• La Mesa, CA (nice wall)
• Providence, RI (Thanks, Father)
• Castor Valley, CA (great note)
• Icarai, Brazil (cool cut out thing popped up)
• Carlsbad, NM! (prayers!)
• Falmouth, NS
• Alexandria, VA (JAG)
• Broad Run, VA (cute kids)
• Maysville, KY (SAHM)
• Rochester, MN! (1st Communion photo w/ Card. Burke!)
• Indian Trail, NC (seminarian card -thanks)
• Hopewell, NJ! (Masses)
• Tempe, AZ (you are welcome)
• NYC, NY (NYPD!! – For the Thin Blue Line? Anything.)

UPDATE 24 Dec

More cards today.

• Cudahy, WI ($2 bills!  Cool stamps!)
• Seaford, NY (prayers)
• Clifton Park, NY (Northeast Catholic College)
• Austin, TX (gift card)
• St. Paul, MN!
• Chesterfield, MO
• Travelers Rst, SC (Thanks, Sister!)
• Iowa City, IA
• St. Thomas, VI (Tridentine Mass Assoc. Virgin Islands? We need an exchange with the Tridentine Mass Society of Madison!  Perhaps in… January or February.)
• Austin?, TX  (nice family photo)
• KC. MO (Semper Fi!)
• Bothwell, WA
• Mesa, AZ

UPDATE 23 Dec

I’m back and I found the PO Box jammed!

• River Ridge, LA (book!)
• Raleigh, NC
• Mt. Clemens, MI
• Vancouver, WA
• Louisville, KY (name of a famous pitcher)
• S. Jordan, UT! (gift card, check, novena of Masses and advice about being old)
• Menoken, ND (cute kids)
• NY, NY (GLITTER? REALLY?… if I knew who you were, anonymous sender, I’d excommunicate you and … it did NOT fall out.  HA!  Thwarted, you fiend!)
• N. Fort Myers, FL! (novena of Masses)
• Covina, CA (reminding us to GO TO CONFESSION!)
• Santa Paula, CA (novena of Masses)
• Carrigaline, Cork – Ireland (novena of Masses
• Newton, MA (quote of Benedict XVI)
• St Petersburg, FL – (ham!)
• Atlantis, FL! (novena of Masses)
• Harrisburgh, PA (mote cute kids)
• Dayton, OH and.. Switzerland (novena of Mass and, no, not a Bugatti)
• Dallas, TX
• Aurora, CO (Chesterton quote)
• ___, MI (thanks, Father)
• Holyoak, MA! (interesting quotes)
• Berkey, OH! (nice family shot)
• Brooklyn, WI! (thanks for everything… truly)
• Portsmouth?, England (great bishop!)
• St. Paul, MN
• Wilmington, NY
• Dennison, MN (even more cute kids)
• Peosta, IA (cute kids abound – must be some of those rigid trads)
• Kailua, HI (cool family notes – kudos)
• Chicago, IL (beautiful card from St. John Cantius)
• San Antonio, TX (all sorts of stuff)
• Thousand Oaks, CA
• Oak Park, IL
• Schenectady, NY (all sorts of stamps)
• Howard Beach, NY
• Atherton, CA
• Loganville, GA
• Scarsdale, NY
• Orlando, FL  (on zone defense)
• Indianapolis, IN
• Mankato, MN (Latin)
• Kansas City, MO (I haven’t forgotten the wine)
• Voorhees, NJ
• Minneapolis, MN (prayers)
• Alexandria, VA
• Farmington Hills, MI (cool stamps)

UPDATE 16 Dec

• Ave Maria, FL (an envelope with blank Christmas cards – odd, but nice)
• Spokane Valley, WA (thanks for the Masses)
• Chula Vista, CA (thanks for the Masses)
• Thaxton, VA (with a poem)
• South Woodchester, Gloucestershire  (great note)
• W. Lafayette, IN (wax seal!)
• Albany, NY
• Sabattus, ME (a ham!)

If I am able to begin some travel tomorrow, I won’t be able to check mail for a few days.

UPDATE 15 Dec

• Pasadena, MD
• Bridgewater, MA
• Gilbert, AZ (interesting card  – donkey carries a tabernacle with a ciborium!)
• Arlington Heights, IL
• Tampa, FL? (thanks for the gift card)
• Tisdale, SK (Vatican II, ha ha, very funny)
• Arlington Heights, IL (again!)
• Menomonee Falls, WI
• FPO, AE 09834 (great inculturated image of Mary and Child)
• Palm Beach Garden, FL

UPDATE 13 Dec

• Kingston, ON – 73! and thanks for Masses
• NY, NY
• Shawnee, OK
• Natrona Heights, PA
• Summit, NJ

Lots of custom made cards with photos this year.

UPDATE 12 Dec

• Greer, SC! – thanks!
• Grawn, MI – thanks for the remembrance in the Rosary
• Delmar, NY! – with a donation for vestments HERE
• San Francisco, CA – even had some Latin
• Fresno, CA
• Elysburg, PA – music CD

UPDATE: 7 Dec:

Pine Grove, PA – nice old fella

One came in without a locality, but it was spiffy.  It was a large card printed on glossy stock and the stamp featured a photo of the undersigned!

Very nice.  Thanks!

UPDATE: 6 Dec – Cards have started to arrive. So far…

Arlington, VA
Santa Fe, NM
Columbia, PA!

Nice notes, too.
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With the whizzing of your planet around your yellow star, we’ve come again to Christmas card season.

If you would like to send me Christmas greetings, please send a card by snail mail, if possible with really cool stamps.

As I did last year, I’ll try to post all the places whence they arrived from around the world.  Also, I find the notes and letters which describe the year people have had to be interesting and, often, moving.

I have a US PO BOX address.

Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
733 Struck St.
PO BOX 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603

PAST ADDRESSES ARE VOID

If you need to send anything that requires a signature, such as gold bars, a Bugatti Chiron, bearer bonds, cases of Pappy Van Winkle, complete Pontifical Mass vestment sets … you know, the usual stuff, get in touch with me for an alternate address.

Please! DON’T send perishable food items. I am sure they would be wonderful, and mostly neither poisonous nor hallucinogenic, but, please, just don’t.

If you put glitter in the card, I may recite the Maledictory Psalms against you.  Thanks in advance for your kind cooperation in this matter of great importance.

Have a wonderful Advent!

PS: I have also located and dusted off my Tactical Christmas Stocking.

The moral patch, by the way, is from my unit in the SciFi books in which I am a character.  I will put it out again soon in the hope that people who pass by will load it up repeatedly with mag and ammo… and stuff.