Nowadays, of course, priests generally are not reliant on their daily Mass stipends to pay for their basic necessities, but the laws surrounding the whole notion remain basically the same. At the same time, by giving a stipend, the person requesting that a Mass be celebrated made a sacrificial offering of his own. On the one hand, the money that a priest received for saying his daily Mass for a specific intention was essentially his source of income-and in some poorer countries (India comes to mind) it sometimes still is.
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Historically, the purpose of offering a Mass stipend for a particular Mass intention has been twofold. Let’s examine the general law concerning this issue and all the possible pertinent scenarios that may be encountered, and then we will focus specifically on Matthew’s particular question. I don’t have anything against praying for vocations, but that Mass was supposed to be for my grandmother! How could they change the Mass intention like that? What should I do? –MatthewĪ: This question touches on the whole issue of Mass intentions and Mass stipends. But when we got to church, there was a visiting priest who concelebrated the Mass with our pastor, and he mentioned several times that he was offering the Mass for the intention of new vocations from our parish. The bulletin listed my grandmother as the intention for that Mass. I scheduled the Mass with the parish secretary and gave a monetary offering long ago.
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Q: The noon Mass last Sunday was supposed to be offered for my deceased grandmother.