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  2. Mass stipend - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Typically, the diocese sets a minimum donation for Mass stipends, and donors are asked to cover this amount for expenses. Code of Canon Law, canon 945 states that . 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. [4]

  3. Mass in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The intention may be related to a donation given by a member of the church and paid to the officiating priest as a Mass stipend. [96] Code of Canon Law, canon 945 states that . 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 ...

  4. Stipend - Wikipedia

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    A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship. [1] It is often distinct from an income or a salary because it does not necessarily represent payment for work performed; instead it represents a payment that enables somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in order to ...

  5. Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Studies by some Catholic scholars, such as the Ukrainian Roman Cholij [31] and Christian Cochini, [32] have argued for the theory that, in early Christian practice, married men who became priests—they were often older men, "elders"—were expected to live in complete continence, refraining permanently from sexual relations with their wives.

  6. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    mendicants (friars or religious sisters who live from alms, recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and; clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have an active apostolic life) Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529.

  7. Ecclesiastical award - Wikipedia

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    When a bishop wishes to confer an ecclesiastical award or honor on a deacon or priest under his jurisdiction, this will normally be accomplished at the Little Entrance of the Divine Liturgy. At the end of the Third Antiphon (normally the Beatitudes), the procession with the Gospel Book will halt at the bishop's cathedra (episcopal throne).

  8. Regular clergy - Wikipedia

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    Thus the collection of Gratian (about 1139) [5] [1] speaks of canons regular, who make canonical profession, and live in a regular canonicate, in opposition to monks who wear the monastic habit, and live in a monastery.

  9. Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In 1893, a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the ordinary was pronounced: it was against laymen (for ecclesiastics the penalty is suspension) who traffic in Mass-stipends and trade them with priests for books and other merchandise (S. Cong. of the Council, decree "Vigilanti studio", May 25, 1893). [7]