Help Us!

All Eucharistic Mendicant Missionaries of the Mystical Rose live under four vows: poverty, chastity, obedience and expiation.  This prohibits them from having any possessions and money but two changes of clothing (habit).  All the work and service they perform for other is gratis, without pay. That's why the Mendicant Missionaries (mendicant means beggars) depend on free will donations that generous people give.

You can help us in different ways:	Send all checks and donations to:
monetary donations in-kind donations frequent travel air miles donations service or volunteering donations	Domus Rosa Mystica 2684 W. Newburg Rd. Carleton, MI 48117

Take a look at the different categories where you can help:

• sponsor the living cost of a missionary

• educate a missionary

• sponsor our international missions fund

• food and groceries donations

• household items

• appliances and electronics

• items for the apostolate and missions

• liturgy elements

Sponsor the living cost of a missionary

• The average living cost of a missionary per month (including rent, home bills, food, and gas) is $400-$500.  We have five missionaries in the Domus and three penitential guests. You can choose to sponsor a missionary by donating the total or partial average monthly living cost. One time donations are gratefully welcomed.

Educate a missionary

• The missionaries study their philosophical and theological degrees at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit.  They also study a specialization in the Theology of the Consecrated Life at Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia. The current undergrad credit hour fee at the Seminary is $300 and $450 for grad students.  At Christendom, the summer specialization costs $1500 for undergrad and $3000 for grad students.  You can choose to sponsor the educational costs of a missionary totally or partially, regularly or as a one time contribution. 

Sponsor the international missions fund

• At least once a year, the missionaries organize a young adult Eucharistic mission of evangelization to a place of a different country of their Domus residence.  By donating specifically for the missions you are assisting the mendicant missionaries to reduce the costs of going overseas. 

Food and groceries donations

• we fast three times during the week in reparation for our sins and those of the whole world.  When we do eat, we eat everything that people donate to us but especially: milk, eggs, bread, cereal, vegetables, meats, cheese, butter, rice, and beans

• for our retreats and guests in the house we always need extra portions of paper towels, napkins, kitchen garbage bags, washer fluid, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, disposable tissue paper, toilette paper, bar soaps for men and women, disposable razors for men and women, toothbrushes, body lotion, all sorts of cleaning supplies, and almost anything else that you can think of

Household items

• big cooking pans and pots (paella style size and bigger, with and without lids, remember we feed many people), 2 sets of silverware for 8 people, 2 sets of daily flatware for 8 people, big Pyrex for the oven 

• many drying clothes for the kitchen, full body and hand towels, twin size sheets and blankets (for guests)

Appliances and electronics

• big blender

• medium to high usage laser printer

• a fax machine

• laptops and desktop PC's

• big capacity electric washer and dryer

• a telephone system that can have other phones in different places of the monastery

Items for the apostolate and missions

• 2 sleeping bags (the warmer, the better, it's for the missions)

• 3 light (no tubes) camping bags (for missions and walking pilgrimages)

• a 15 passenger van

• a working, good condition used minivan, SUV, or car

Liturgy elements

• 4 sets of the 4 volume Liturgy of the Hours in English

• 3 sets of the 4 volume Liturgy of the Hours in Latin

• 4 Daily Roman Missal by Our Sunday Visitor Press (preferably hard bound)

• 2 Ignatius Press Bibles (preferably hard bound)

• the gold plating of an old donated monstrance

• a luna for an incomplete donated monstrance