Question about Mass Intentions

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At a parish that uses the Extraordinary Form, do you have to pay for a Mass Intention?

I called a local OF parish and they asked me “How do you plan to pay for this?”

Does this happen at a Traditional Parish?

Thanks guys.
 
signumcrux said:
At a parish that uses the Extraordinary Form, do you have to pay for a Mass Intention?

I called a local OF parish and they asked me “How do you plan to pay for this?”

Does this happen at a Traditional Parish?

Thanks guys.
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While that was poorly phrased question, it was a fair one. A stipend is always customary for a Mass to be offered for a particular intention although it is never to be refused if the person cannot afford it.

My traditional FSSP priest gave a suggested stipend of ten dollars per Mass.

Which reminds me, I need to have a Mass offered as part of my Confraternity commitment.
 
signumcrux said:
At a parish that uses the Extraordinary Form, do you have to pay for a Mass Intention?

I called a local OF parish and they asked me “How do you plan to pay for this?”

Does this happen at a Traditional Parish?

Thanks guys.
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Yeah, “pay” is the wrong word. It is a “stipend” which goes toward the support of the priest offering the mass.
 
The stipend makes more sense. I was denied the Mass Intention though at four more parishes.
 
Yes, the usual stipend is $10 for a Mass intention. It is given to the priest and helps him support himself. In many foreign countries that’s all a priest has to live on because they get no salary.
 
porthos11 said:
While that was poorly phrased question, it was a fair one. A stipend is always customary for a Mass to be offered for a particular intention although it is never to be refused if the person cannot afford it.

My traditional FSSP priest gave a suggested stipend of ten dollars per Mass.

Which reminds me, I need to have a Mass offered as part of my Confraternity commitment.
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I agree with your post.

A fun little comment that somebody made to me once is that in Italian, the phrasing for offering a stipend is literally “to buy a Mass”. He then said, “it makes one long for the Council of Trent.” 😛
 
signumcrux said:
They told me they couldn’t schedule me.
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Why??
Where you looking for a particular day?

This happens quite often at many parishes in my area.
Since only one intention per Mass is allowed, if you have 5 people who all want the same day, it’s first come, first served.

We have put “restricitions” on how many Masses could be scheduled per person (requesting the Mass)- 5 per quarter. We only have Daily Mass 3 times a week and only 2 Masses on the weekend, so some people where having to wait close to a year for a Mass because we had some people who would want to schedule 25 Masses. And we only schedule 1 quarter. This weekend, we will open the book for April through June. If not all Masses get scheduled, the “open ones” will be offered to anyone who inquires.
 
I worked in a parish office for a while and they said “never say, [for a mass offering] ‘it costs’…”

Like others said, it’s a donation, and not strictly required. But to withhold a donation when you can make one…
 
signumcrux said:
They told me they couldn’t schedule me.
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Perhaps it just means their calendar is full. Were you too strict in your timeframe? Did you try asking them to schedule it for the “next free day”?

A Mass for which a stipend has been offered can be for only one intention, generally speaking.
 
Oneofthewomen said:
Why??
Where you looking for a particular day?

This happens quite often at many parishes in my area.
Since only one intention per Mass is allowed, if you have 5 people who all want the same day, it’s first come, first served.

We have put “restricitions” on how many Masses could be scheduled per person (requesting the Mass)- 5 per quarter. We only have Daily Mass 3 times a week and only 2 Masses on the weekend, so some people where having to wait close to a year for a Mass because we had some people who would want to schedule 25 Masses. And we only schedule 1 quarter. This weekend, we will open the book for April through June. If not all Masses get scheduled, the “open ones” will be offered to anyone who inquires.
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I thought that the priest could offer the Mass for multiple intentions (with a limit of one stipend)? :confused:
 
At my church it is $5 per Mass intention - Daily Mass can only have one intention but the weekend Masses can have however many requested. I’m not sure if this set by the priest or the diocese.
 
Last summer our diocese announced that it was raising the customary stipend to $15.

At my parish, Masses are scheduled for six month periods at a time. There is usually an announcement in the bulletin that Mass offerings are being accepted for Jan 1-June 30, a few weeks ahead of the starting date, and people are limited to no more than three weekend Masses per scheduling period.
 
You can also write to and donate money to various religious orders and missionary orders, etc. for your intention. When my FIL died, I sent all the non-earmarked money to his favorite mission and the priests there said massed for his soul. Otherwise, it would have been over a year before the parish could schedule a Mass for him. I received a nice card stating they were saying masses for him and thanking us.

However, they forgot to take him off the mailing list, and he still received mail at my house asking for donations for many months after he was dead. :eek:
 
signumcrux said:
I called a local OF parish and they asked me “How do you plan to pay for this?”

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The offering, or stipend, made by the person requesting the Mass is in the nature of a sacrificial gift and almsgiving. This has been done since the early Church.
porthos11 said:
A Mass for which a stipend has been offered can be for only one intention, generally speaking.
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Depending upon the diocese, collective intentions may be permitted for one Mass. The celebrant, however, cannot keep more than a single Mass offering. If more than one intention is mentioned per Mass, the other stipends most normally go into a bishop’s fund.
 
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