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Mass Intentions

One part of Catholic culture that is sometimes hard to understand and very often misunderstood is the custom of offering Mass intentions. When a priest celebrates Mass each day, he offers each celebration of the Eucharist for a particular person, or intention. By doing so he applies special graces from God upon that person or intention. Similar to how we are able to intercede for others by our personal prayers, the Church is able to intercede for us through the celebration of the Mass. However, since the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life”, the Mass possesses a power that our personal prayers do not. 

There is no more powerful prayerful petition than having a Mass said for an intention worthy in the eyes of God. We can request a Mass intention not only for the repose of the soul of someone who has died, but also in thanksgiving, for healing, or for the intentions of another person (such as on a birthday). As St. John Paul II has written: “In the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the Church prays that God, the Father of Mercies, will grant His children the fullness of the Holy Spirit so that they may become one body and one spirit in Christ.”