Mass Intentions Anyone?

[1Timothy115]

While searching for a deceased relative (catholic) I found his name under 'Mass Intentions' and thought it might be like greeters. Knowing he has been dead for many years I thought I better look up what they were using my dead relatives name for. I didn't know it had a special name for their practice. I thought the Roman Church parishioners just prayed for their dead to come out of 'purgatory' as a routine function. Is this a name change for 'indulgences' or the pay for prayers system they use.

 

Mass Intentions

An individual may ask a priest to offer a Mass for several reasons: for example, in thanksgiving, for the intentions of another person (such as on a birthday), or, as is most common, for the repose of the soul of someone who has died.

[swathdiver]

If memory serves, by paying priests to get their relatives out of purgatory, the Papists were able to build all those monstrous and ornate buildings across the glOBe.

[LindaR]

"As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs"....Johann Tetzel