n many regions of the world the priests are as poor as the people they serve. For over fifty years Aid to the Church in Need has passed on the Mass offerings of our benefactors to help poor priests survive. In return these priests offer a Mass for the...
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n many regions of the world the priests are as poor as the people they serve. For over fifty years Aid to the Church in Need has passed on the Mass offerings of our benefactors to help poor priests survive. In return these priests offer a Mass for the intentions of the donor.
This custom of Mass offerings - dating back to the second century - is a tangible sign of the spiritual and material dependance we Christians have on one another.
There is no more beautiful gift than the gift of the Mass. In 2017, 40,383 priests - ten percent of the world’s priests - were supported by 1,504,105 Mass
offerings.
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