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A Mass card is a card which indicates that a person, whether living or deceased, will be included in the intentions at a specific Catholic Mass or set of Masses. After donation of the Mass stipend, the card is presented to the person or, if deceased, their family. [5] [6] Mass cards are a relatively recent custom, with the term's first recorded ...
Annunciation by Robert Campin; a wood print is in the top right, between candle fixtures.. Old master prints, nearly all on religious subjects, served many of the same functions as holy cards, especially the cheaper woodcuts; the earliest dated surviving example is from 1423, probably from southern Germany, and depicts Saint Christopher, with handcolouring, it is found as part of the binding ...
In Catholic teaching, the holy sacrifice of the Mass is the fulfillment of all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. In the New Covenant, the one sacrifice on the altar of Calvary is revisited during every Catholic Mass. Jesus Christ merited all graces and blessings for us by His death on the Cross.
A donation, in the context of the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, is the gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing. When it consists in placing in the hands of the donee some movable object it is known as a gift of hand ( donum manuale , an offering or oblatio , an alms ).
A mass-book is a book, used most commonly by the laity, as an aid while attending Catholic Mass (the principal Catholic church service). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The massbook comprises scriptural readings, prayers , and psalms for the day's mass, sometimes also including homiletic or exegetical material.
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An In memoriam card [1] is a Christian devotional image that is printed on its back as a commemoration for certain events such as the receiving the sacrament of the first holy communion, the making of solemn vows, the bestowal of holy orders or the consecration of virgins, and their major anniversaries.
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