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dee_burk
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this is probably a stupid question but…If you have a priest bless something for you are you supposed to offer a stipend?
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Dorothy
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No.
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L_Marshall
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Stipends are generally only given for Masses, Baptisms, Burials, Funerals, and Weddings. Even then, they can be made optional. I once asked a priest friend to offer Mass for an intention of mine. When I pulled out my wallet he said “Don’t worry about it.”
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felsguy
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It’s not totally out of the question to at least offer something as a token gift if the priest had to do something out of the ordinary, such as making the trip to bless your new house. My experience in such cases is that he most likely will decline money but would accept a book or a loaf of homemade bread etc.
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thistle
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No.
CCC 2121 Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things. To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!” Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: “You received without pay, give without pay.” It is impossible to appropriate to oneself spiritual goods and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in God. One can receive them only from him, without payment.
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felsguy
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Are you suggesting here that giving a stipend is simony?
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thistle
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What I am saying is that any form of money which is REQUIRED to be given would be simony if it was for the blessing of a sacramental. I’m not talking about stipends. Stipends have nothing to do with blessing sacramentals.Are you suggesting here that giving a stipend is simony?
STIPEND. Canonically speaking, a means of support for the clergy. Also a part of the revenue of a benefice to which a cleric attached to the benefice is entitled. It is popularly spoken of today as the offering made to a priest on the occasion of having him offer Mass for one’s special intention.
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