why is the Catholic Church the only one that has a "service" every day?

[Bill_Pick]

Bill,
I am not sure what the cost is but I will try and find out for you. Speaking of daily Mass and since you have brought up money I have a question for you. What kind of stipend are you expected to give your priest if you ask him to say a Mass for you or a loved one?

God Bless!

Well its up to you I had a friend pass away a few weeks ago and his family paid nothing, I had a frind pass away last Nov. and I had a mass said for him and gave the church 10. bucks. When My father die years ago I gave the Priest $50. We have No set amount its just what you feel like doing…Are priset makes !,000 a month so they are happy with what they get…Most mass give 5 or 10 for a mass,hope this helps if not let me know

 

[nlm]

I should think that the amount of volunteer work I do around the church is sufficient to supply any “pay back” element that may be considered necessary; however, my offering consists of a broken heart, and a contrite spirit, cf. Isaiah.

As far as I know, the donations for the votive candles are also voluntary.

We can’t possibly be talking about the same thing. Let me ask you this to try and get on the same track. When you visit a funeral home ,and want to have a mass said for the person who died ,do you have someone, usually a friend of the family ,sitting at a table perhaps, ready to fill out a two part card.Both parts have the name of the person who has died on it as well as your name. One portion goes to the family so they will know you had a mass said in memory of their loved one.The second part of the card goes to the priest from the parish where the dead person attended.The person then asks you for $10.00 which is attached to the card going to the parish priest. Is this not how things work in your part of the world? I have never seen a church where votive candles did not have a price tag. If you visit large basilicas you will see luminaries which hold hundreds if not thousands of votive candles,but they are not free.The amount of voluntary work you do at the church is another matter all together. NLM

 

[jmcrae]

We can’t possibly be talking about the same thing. Let me ask you this to try and get on the same track. When you visit a funeral home ,and want to have a mass said for the person who died ,do you have someone, usually a friend of the family ,sitting at a table perhaps, ready to fill out a two part card.Both parts have the name of the person who has died on it as well as your name. One portion goes to the family so they will know you had a mass said in memory of their loved one.The second part of the card goes to the priest from the parish where the dead person attended.The person then asks you for $10.00 which is attached to the card going to the parish priest. Is this not how things work in your part of the world?

No. If you want to have a Mass for a special intention, you go to the priest or else to the parish office and you request one. The priest or the secretary marks it down in a little book. If you are in the parish office, the secretary then asks you if you would like to purchase a card to go with it. If you say “no” then nothing further is mentioned about money.

I have never seen a church where votive candles did not have a price tag. If you visit large basilicas you will see luminaries which hold hundreds if not thousands of votive candles, but they are not free.

We have smaller ones; I think they probably hold about 100 candles each, and there are three of them. There is a slot marked “donations” that you can drop coins into, but there isn’t any price mentioned. It is considered rude to light more than three or four, but there is nothing blocking the way or forcing you to notice the donation box before approaching them to light your candle or candles.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I am also in Canada, and yet my experiences are quite different. It probably has to do with the sorts of parishes that we are naturally drawn to, since although I have heard of parishes like the ones you’re describing, they’re not in neighborhoods where I would think of going - I tend to stick to working-class areas of the city.

IF he is doing this, he is doing so absolutely against Church law.

He is still breaking Church law.

With permission of his bishop he can say the mass for several people, but must inform those requesting the mass that it will be for several. He may only keep the stipend for one however. The others must be given to the bishop for his disposition. With many requests my parish has a couple of days a month set aside for multiple intentions.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Well its up to you I had a friend pass away a few weeks ago and his family paid nothing, I had a frind pass away last Nov. and I had a mass said for him and gave the church 10. bucks. When My father die years ago I gave the Priest $50. We have No set amount its just what you feel like doing…Are priset makes !,000 a month so they are happy with what they get…Most mass give 5 or 10 for a mass,hope this helps if not let me know

Ten dollars seems to be the standard in most places. Was the $50 for the funeral mass? If you give a priest more than the standard he must divide it by the standard and say that many masses unless you tell him explicitly that it is for one mass, e.g. if the standard is $10 and you give him $50 without specifying otherwise he must offer five masses.

The morning my mother died I mentioned it to the priest and asked him to remember her, i.e. in the prayer of the Faithful. He immediately said he would offer the mass for her. Since I had helped him with a couple of personal favors, I accepted it as a gift from a friend.

 

[Bill_Pick]

We can’t possibly be talking about the same thing. Let me ask you this to try and get on the same track. When you visit a funeral home ,and want to have a mass said for the person who died ,do you have someone, usually a friend of the family ,sitting at a table perhaps, ready to fill out a two part card.Both parts have the name of the person who has died on it as well as your name. One portion goes to the family so they will know you had a mass said in memory of their loved one.The second part of the card goes to the priest from the parish where the dead person attended.The person then asks you for $10.00 which is attached to the card going to the parish priest. Is this not how things work in your part of the world? I have never seen a church where votive candles did not have a price tag. If you visit large basilicas you will see luminaries which hold hundreds if not thousands of votive candles,but they are not free.The amount of voluntary work you do at the church is another matter all together. NLM

You are very confused I have NEVER had any one ask for money from the Cathloic Church, and votive candles never had a price tag but you gave what you think is fair.and I was at a Large Bascilicas churck just about two years ago, I was wjith 20 people and we l left nothing for the Church but we did give money to our Church on are This Sunday Fox news, is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, Sunday night at 9 PM Eastern.

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I think we had may be 2oo

 

[Bill_Pick]

The weekday Mass is at 7 am.

well I lost a post some place, If you find it I hope you can read it,SORRY

 

[Bill_Pick]

Ten dollars seems to be the standard in most places. Was the $50 for the funeral mass? If you give a priest more than the standard he must divide it by the standard and say that many masses unless you tell him explicitly that it is for one mass, e.g. if the standard is $10 and you give him $50 without specifying otherwise he must offer five masses.

The morning my mother died I mentioned it to the priest and asked him to remember her, i.e. in the prayer of the Faithful. He immediately said he would offer the mass for her. Since I had helped him with a couple of personal favors, I accepted it as a gift from a friend.

The 50 was from me for putting my Father in the qround,it was a raining day so I just gave it to the priest,like going out to eat and having a good meal just like a tip…Are priest do not make 50,000 or 60,000 thound a year so what we give irs a help to them

 

[nlm]

No. If you want to have a Mass for a special intention, you go to the priest or else to the parish office and you request one. The priest or the secretary marks it down in a little book. If you are in the parish office, the secretary then asks you if you would like to purchase a card to go with it. If you say “no” then nothing further is mentioned about money.

We have smaller ones; I think they probably hold about 100 candles each, and there are three of them. There is a slot marked “donations” that you can drop coins into, but there isn’t any price mentioned. It is considered rude to light more than three or four, but there is nothing blocking the way or forcing you to notice the donation box before approaching them to light your candle or candles.

So you are telling me that when people die in your parish and let’s say 10 or 20 or 30 people want to have a mass said for that person all they have to do is ask and it is done without charge. My dear man you must live in a VERY wealthy parish indeed. In 50 years as a RC I have never heard of free masses. As for the candles, the small ones are $1.00 and the large are $5.00. I am not making this up it’s the truth. It only makes sense as the church has to purchase these they don’t come from a company for free. NLM

 

[jmcrae]

So you are telling me that when people die in your parish and let’s say 10 or 20 or 30 people want to have a mass said for that person all they have to do is ask and it is done without charge.

That could easily happen, yes. Of course, most people make a voluntary donation of whatever amount seems good to them.

My dear man you must live in a VERY wealthy parish indeed.

Not really, no - as I mentioned before, it’s a working-class parish. But it wouldn’t make much on candles and Masses, even if we had strict charges for these. (And we probably wouldn’t make anything on them if people felt obligated to pay. An interesting thing about the poor is that if they are given the choice, they will always donate something, but they will dig their heels in and go on strike if they are required to pay for something.)

With the rich, I suppose the psychology is a little different - if they can see a price tag, they will pay it cheerfully, but if not, they will assume the item or service is free, and not donate anything. So, in the rich parishes, they have to put price tags out.

 

[nlm]

Ten dollars seems to be the standard in most places. Was the $50 for the funeral mass? If you give a priest more than the standard he must divide it by the standard and say that many masses unless you tell him explicitly that it is for one mass, e.g. if the standard is $10 and you give him $50 without specifying otherwise he must offer five masses.

The morning my mother died I mentioned it to the priest and asked him to remember her, i.e. in the prayer of the Faithful. He immediately said he would offer the mass for her. Since I had helped him with a couple of personal favors, I accepted it as a gift from a friend.

You are correct ,the amount for a mass is indeed $10.00. A funeral mass is $50.00. Most people would not realize this is the case as the funeral director looks after the disbursements such as paying the priest, the organist, the soloist the newspaper obituary etc. In some cases, especially if the priest knows the family can ill afford this expenditure, he will waive his fee but this is the exception not the rule. Bottom line, a mass request is not free nor is a funeral mass.NLM

 

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Food Bag Sunday
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The Methodist Church down the road has a parking lot that is just about filled every day for Christian fellowship!

God Bless!

that’s encouraging…

only problem is i have never heard a non-Catholic call it Eucharist…

and even if they call it that doesn’t mean its the same as what Catholics have… the real Presence…

 

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Give me a break, I’m not going to stop going up at communion, so just leave it out!

i hope you are not receiving Communion at a Catholic mass if you are not Catholic…

there are consequences to that which are mentioned in 1 Cor 11:20–