Question regarding the liturgy: Requiem Mass

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Can anyone have the right to have requiem mass for the whole year after death?
What are the rules and regulations regarding this?
 
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Toi_nhan_31 said:
Can anyone have the right to have requiem mass for the whole year after death?
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Well no one has a “right” to any mass.
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What are the rules and regulations regarding this?
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Accepting mass intentions are at the discretion of the priest who accepts them.

He may not accept more than he can say in a year. And he may retain no more than one offering a day except on Christmas (although he can have more than one mass intention in a day).

Other than that, it’s his call. Here are the relevant canons:

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3D.HTM
 
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Well no one has a “right” to any mass.
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There is this case, the mother of a friend of mine just died and her last wish was to have mass for one whole year. So in this case if the person ask to a priest to do it for the whole year, can he refuse or ha has to?
I am asking this because I heard from someone that this is something like pious desire of a person so the priest can not refuse.
 
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There is this case, the mother of a friend of mine just died and her last wish was to have mass for one whole year.
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That’s fine. The friend can send masses to any number of priests— diocesan or order. It doesn’t have to be all one priest.
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So in this case if the person ask to a priest to do it for the whole year, can he refuse or ha has to?
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Yes of course he can refuse. He isn’t obligated to say a mass for anyone specifically let alone a year’s worth of masses for someone, and likely cannot if he’s already committed to saying masses for others and received the mass offering from those people.

It is common to either give masses to several priests or to enroll the loved one in a mass intention program with a religious order where they spread the masses among their order priests to be able to accommodate the request.

If the local priest cannot accommodate the request, contact the diocese, as they take mass offerings for the retired priests to have mass intentions and also send them to the missions.
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I am asking this because I heard from someone that this is something like pious desire of a person so the priest can not refuse.
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There is no such thing.
 
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Your friend can contact one of the shrines and make that request; they have multiple priests saying multiple daily Masses and are in a better position to handle her mother’s request.
 
I would suggest looking into a 1-year or perpetual enrollment for the deceased person at one of the shrines or orders that specialize in such enrollments. I am sure it is possible to enroll the person for one year or perhaps perpetually, in an enrollment where her soul would be prayed for at every Mass said by the shrine or order during that period of time.

Typically the priests would accept enrollments of many deceased souls and pray for them all at each Mass. This is fine because the benefits of each Mass are tremendous and more than sufficient to cover huge numbers of souls; there is no need for one soul to be the only intention in order to get the benefit of the Mass said for them.
 
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Toi_nhan_31 said:
can he refuse or ha has to?
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He can refuse.

Typically, only monasteries would take on such a request. And right now, it’s very hard to even find priests willing to do a Gregorian Masses.

Question: do you mean mass for 365 straight days or 1 mass a month or week? Because there is a difference
 
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