These are associations of different congregations of priests, who include anyone who has made an offering to their congregation, in all the spiritual benefits of all their Masses until such time as that congregation ceases to exist. One way however, that is not costly, and ensures you and your family are included in many daily Masses is to enrol in a Perpetual Mass Association or Associations. It is difficult or impossible for some people to go to frequent Mass and it is not financially possible for others to have many Masses said for themselves and their associates. We should try and go to as many Masses as we can and have as many Masses said for ourselves as possible during our life as these Masses will help us enormously both in this life and in the next, particularly reducing time in purgatory. When we leave money for Masses to be said after our death, the sacrifice is considerably less as money is no longer of use to us when we are dead. Padre Pio said that the Mass is by far the greatest of all prayers and that one Mass is spiritually worth more than all other forms of prayers and devotion ever said since the world began, though I would like to emphasise that prayer and devotion are still of enormous spiritual benefit.Ī Mass a person attends or has said for themselves during life is of much more value than a Mass said for that person after their death – the reason being that when a person attends Mass or has a Mass said for themselves during life, some effort or sacrifice has been made either to go to Mass or provide the Mass offering.
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