Measuring collar
A Messbund is a community for celebrating Holy Mass in a special way.
Intention of the measuring collar
A messbund is a community of Catholic diocesan or religious priests and lay people, in which the priests undertake to read one or more Holy Masses at certain intervals in the spirit and in the opinion of the lay members. For membership in the Messbund, lay people usually pay a one-off amount of a fixed amount or they make a donation at their own discretion. The intention of the members is mostly to achieve a shortening or complete reduction of the times of penance for venial sins in purgatory for themselves, relatives or loved ones . Since Holy Mass, according to the Catholic view, is the highest and most valuable prayer to God, it is hoped that it will give the greatest possible answer to one's request. The Immaculate Conception and the Blessed Mother Mary are often invoked as mediators . People can have themselves, relatives or the deceased included in the measuring collar and receive a picture with the name of the member as a confirmation of acceptance.
CIC and measurement scholarship
Reading a fair with a certain intention for a fee is in the Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC), a book of Roman Catholic Church law, in paragraphs (canones) 945 to 958 under the term “ Messstipendium ” (“ de oblata ad missae celebrationis stipe ”) set. Since according to the CIC, in particular, only one intention per mass may be applied, a single diocesan priest, less priestly or religious communities with several clergy, faces a problem if more mass grants come together than masses can be read. As a rule, one helps oneself by passing on the Mass grants to other priests or to mission areas, who then benefit from the income, or dedicating a Mass intention to several deceased or even to all poor souls in purgatory. Furthermore, the CIC stipulates, among other things, that the celebrating priest may only keep one Mass stipend for himself a day, even if he reads several masses a day; The ordinariate or the superior in the case of religious priests decides on the use of further income, for example for charitable or missionary purposes.
History of the measuring collar
The mess covenant exists for the time during which the aligning priesthood exists. Measuring frets were probably first founded in the second half of the 19th century and still exist today or have since disbanded due to adverse circumstances. One of the early foundations is the still existing Messbund of the Mariannhill Missionaries, which was founded by their founder and first abbot Franz Pfanner , and still exists today, and the Messbund founded in 1897 in honor of the Immaculate Mother of God Mary and for the comfort of the poor Souls in Purgatory "(see PICTURE) of the Olivetan monks of the monastery at Tanzenberg Castle (Carinthia), whose religious settlement ultimately did not survive the harassment of National Socialism. Some of today's measuring frets see web links.
Membership fee
Only the Society of St. Peter (see web links) expects a fixed, one-time contribution of 125.00 or 275.00 euros for the admission of an individual or a family to the Messbund. Other communities provide e.g. T. Forms on the Internet in which the member makes a one-time or regularly debit donation at his own discretion. A record is to be kept of the donations and prayer opinions of the Messbund members.
Measuring collar and drain
Payment and mostly the same intention, namely to achieve a partial or complete waiver of the temporary purgatory penalties, occasionally move the intention of the Messbund or the Messstipendium into the vicinity of the notion of indulgence, which is viewed critically . While the indulgence (if all regulations are fulfilled) is mediated by a binding legal act of the ecclesiastical teaching authority (i.e. the Pope as God's representative on earth), the priest's prayer in Holy Mass can only be an intercession in the opinion of the believers for the grace of God be. The CIC says in can. 947 literally: "Even any semblance of business or trade is to be kept completely away from the measuring stipend", which applies mutatis mutandis to the measuring collar as well.