mass intention

In one, the people's principal mass intention was that they find some piece of land to live upon and grow their subsistence grains.

Pius X parishioners we will be keeping 3 mass intentions within the cluster.

If you would like a Mass Intention for anyone, please contact Fr. Taylor for arrangements.

It is primarily financed by donations and mass intentions from Filipinos in and outside the country, and in turn funds charitable social programs for the poor.

Not all of Borga's fellow congregants agree, although Holy Name of Jesus' priest has agreed to the mass intention.

Bishop Adayanthrath said sending Mass intentions overseas was a way for rich churches short on priests to share and support smaller churches in poorer parts of the world.

American, as well as Canadian and European churches, are sending Mass intentions, or requests for services like those to remember deceased relatives and thanksgiving prayers, to clergy in India.

However, the firmer subject of these stories is the possibility of being human, despite the enormity of an ever-progressing world of massed intention, full of movement and confusion and potential threat.

The church secretary who took the Mass intention said at first she thought it was a joke but the name of bin Laden with a cross next to it was placed in Sunday's bulletin.

In Bangalore's Dharmaram College, Rector James Narithookil said he often received requests for Mass intentions from abroad, which he distributed among the 50 priests in his seminary.

Bishop Sebastian Adayanthrath, the auxiliary bishop of the Ernakulam-Angamaly diocese in Cochin, a port town in Kerala, said his diocese received an average of 350 Mass intentions a month from overseas.

Parishioner Henry Borga requested the mass intention, on behalf of one Osama bin Laden, which is a long-standing tradition in the Catholic Church in which masses are offered for souls in purgatory or to remember someone who has died or in honor of someone still living.