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"Can.
901 A priest is entitled to offer Mass for anyone, living or
dead." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"...for
the dead are helped by the masses offered by the living" (St.
Ephraem the Syrian, Doctor of the Church, 4th Century A.D.)
"Can.
827 From any kind of Mass stipend every hint of business or
commercialism should be avoided." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
947 Even the semblance of trafficking or trading is to be entirely
excluded from Mass offerings." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
828 There should be as many Masses applied and celebrated as there
are stipends given and accepted." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
1385 A person who unlawfully traffics in Mass offerings is to be
punished with a censure or other just penalty." (1983 Code of
Canon Law)
"Can.
953 [No priest] may accept more offerings for Masses to be celebrated
by himself than he can discharge within a year." (1983 Code
of Canon Law)
"Can.
948 Separate Masses must be applied for the intentions of those
for whom an individual offering, even if small, has been made and
accepted." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
809 It is basic that Mass can be applied for the living and for
the dead undergoing expiation by fire in purgatory, with due
regard for the prescription of Canon 2262, § 2, n.2" (1917
Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
946 The Christian faithful who give an offering to apply the Mass
for their intention contribute to the good of the Church and by
that offering share its concern to support its ministers and
works." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
949 A [priest] obliged to celebrate and apply Mass for the intention
of those who gave an offering is bound by the obligation even if
the offerings received have been lost through no fault of his
own." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
832 It is fundamental that a priest can accept a stipend for the
celebration of Mass larger than [that established in that area]; and,
unless the local Ordinary prohibits it, [likewise he may accept] one
smaller." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
954 If in certain churches or oratories more Masses are asked to
be celebrated than can be celebrated there, it is permitted for
them to be celebrated elsewhere unless the donors have expressly
indicated a contrary intention." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
831 § 1 It is for the local Ordinary to determine by decree the
stipend for manual Masses in his diocese, [and this decree] as far
as possible [is to be] laid down in a diocesan Synod; nor is it
permitted for a priest to demand one higher." (1917 Code of
Canon Law)
"Can.
957 The duty and the right to see that Mass obligations are
fulfilled belongs, in the case of churches of the secular clergy,
to the local Ordinary; in the case of churches of religious
institutes or societies of apostolic life, to their
Superiors." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
956 Each and every administrator of pious causes and those,
whether clerics or lay persons, who are in any way obliged to
provide for the celebration of Masses, are to transfer to their
Ordinaries, in a manner to be determined by the latter, such Mass
obligations as have not been discharged within a year." (1983
Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
950 If a sum of money is offered for the application of Masses
without an indication of the number of Masses to be celebrated,
the number is to be computed on the basis of the offering
established in the place where the donor resides, unless the
intention of the donor must be presumed legitimately to have been
different." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
945 §1 In accordance with the approved custom of the Church, any
priest who celebrates or concelebrates a Mass may accept an
offering to apply the Mass for a specific intention. §2 It is
earnestly recommended to priests that, even if they do not receive
an offering, they celebrate Mass for the intentions of Christ's
faithful, especially of those in need." (1983 Code of Canon
Law)
"Can.
958 §1 The pastor and the rector of a church or other pious place
which regularly receives offerings for Masses are to have a
special book in which he notes accurately the number of Masses to
be celebrated, the intention, the offering given, and the fact of
their celebration. §2 The ordinary is obliged to examine these
books each year either personally or through others." (1983
Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
825 It is never permitted: 1° To apply Mass for the intention of
one who, upon offering the offering, will ask for the application
[of a Mass], but has not yet done it, and later to retain the
offering for the Mass applied before; 2° To receive an offering
for a Mass that by another title must be [offered] and applied;
3° To accept two offerings for the application of the same Mass;;
4° To receive one offering only for the celebration and another
for the application of the same Mass, unless it was certainly
shown that one stipend was made for the application without
celebration." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
826 § 1 Stipends that the faithful offer for a Mass either out of
their own devotion, as it were by hand, or by an obligation, even
perpetual, made by a testator on his heirs, are called manual. §
2 Stipends for foundation Masses are called similar to manual,
which cannot be offered in their own place or by those who are to
offer them according to the records of the foundation, and
likewise those that by law or indult of the Holy See are given to
other priests for their satisfaction. § 3 Other stipends that are
received from the assets of a foundation are called founded or
foundation Masses." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
834 § 1 Masses for which celebration a time is expressly
prescribed by the offeror [of the stipend] must in every event be
celebrated at that time. § 2 If the offeror does not prescribe a
time for the celebration of manual Masses: 1° Masses [requested]
for urgent causes must be celebrated as soon as possible [and
while the cause exists]; 2° In other cases Masses are to be
celebrated within the least amount of time given the higher or
lower number of Masses. § 3 But if the offeror expressly leaves
the time of celebration to the decision of the priest, the priest
can pick a time most convenient to himself, with due regard for
the prescription of Canon 835." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
955 §1 One who intends to transfer to others the celebration of
Masses to be applied, is to transfer them as soon as possible to
priests of his own choice, provided he is certain that they are of
proven integrity. He must transfer the entire offering received,
unless it is quite certain that an amount in excess of the
diocesan offering was given as a personal gift. Moreover, it is
his obligation to see to the celebration of the Masses until such
time as he has received evidence that the obligation has been
undertaken and the offering received. §2 Unless it is established
otherwise, the time within which Masses are to be celebrated
begins from the day the priest who is to celebrate them receives
them. §3 Those who transfer to others Masses to be celebrated are
without delay to record in a book both the Masses which they have
accepted and those which they have transferred to others, noting
also the offerings for these Masses. §4 Each priest must
accurately record the Masses which he has accepted to celebrate
and those which he has in fact celebrated." (1983 Code of
Canon Law)
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Eucharist (Catechism of the Council of Trent)
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