Thursday, January 12, 2012

Spiritual Re-Fuel: Thank You!

Just wanted to take a quick post and say thank you to everyone that makes purchases at Aquinas and More via links from my blog. Anytime you click through to their website and buy something, I get a small amount added to my gift-certificate there for being an affiliate blog. As a father of two, and living in today's economy, but in such an austere and ascetic Catholic locale it is nice to have the ability to feed my spiritual self with some good "Catholic meat" a.k.a. BOOKS!

I know there are a lot of ways for bloggers to be "profitable" and I have resisted many of those for personal reasons. Many bloggers bombard readers with requests to support such ventures. I want to make sure anything that give me a "benefit" is worthwhile organization and is also a "two-way-street" for readers. For example, Mystic Monk coffee is a site I where I am an affiliate. If you buy their great coffee, and support their ministry, you will get a great product and give alms to a worthy religious order. Therefore I feel comfortable linking them, and being an affiliate. I don't often promote purchases through them mostly because other very popular bloggers do the same, and I know I can't compete. When you think of Mystic Monk, I doubt you think to come here to make your purchase. (By the way, linking through a blog does not drive your cost up.)
As for Aquinas and More though, it is easier to promote them. They are a great company, with great products, and great policies. As an avid reader, and someone that discusses books, thoughts, and ideas on this blog, I can easily link to books as reference and it is an unobtrusive way to promote A&M.

So please, when you think of buying books, making gift purchases for Sacramental celebrations, or even need supplies for your parish, think about coming here, clinking on the various Aquinas and More links and support a great Catholic store, as well as my reading addiction. Who knows, it might just make the posts around here more interesting!

Here is my most recent "purchase" - I have been saving up my gift card value since summer and someone made two rather large purchases so I was able to splurge a bit:
Guide To Thomas Aquinas
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Church Fathers and Teachers
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Leisure the Basis of Culture
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Legends Of Saints And Beasts
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Daily Roman Missal
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Thanks again!


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2 Comments so far - Click to Comment::

Paige said...

Good to know! They are in my home state and we have quite a good Catholic bookstore in my city, but if I need to order from them, I will definitely go through you to do it. They are closer to me than Amazon, so I would only have to wait about a day to get my stuff! Yay!

mdavid said...

What did you think of "Leisure"?

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