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Mass Intentions

Mass Cards and Mass Intention Requests

A Mass card, also known as a Mass offering card, memorial card or a remembrance card, is a greeting card given to someone to let them know that they, or a deceased loved-one, will be remembered and prayed for in the intentions at a Mass. We schedule Mass intention requests with missionaries throughout the world and with local poorer parish pastors. Your Mass offering serves as a substantial means of day-by-day support for their life and ministry.



Please specify the number of masses and mass intentions. If the intention is for a person, please indicate if they are living or deceased. The donation is usually $10.00 per mass.

A golden chalice surrounded by bunches of grapes and wheat stalks, with a glowing cross in the background and the words "A Mass Offering" at the top.

(Deceased)

Abstract design with a chalice and host in gold, set over blue and gray sections decorated with grapes and leaves. Text to the right reads: "Lord for your faithful people life is changed, not ended."

(Deceased)

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(Deceased)

Mass Intention Requests

Novena and Gregorian Masses

The Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the Office for the Missions of the Diocese of San Diego offers Gregorian Masses. They benefit not only your loved ones, they also help to support the essential work of the Church—actualizing God’s Mission to His people. In Mission lands priests depend on Mass stipends for their daily support to cover all the essentials of everyday life including the things they need to say Mass—bread and wine.



 

Besides the possibility of individual Mass offerings of $10 each, one might also ask for special Mass offerings. These include:

A decorative card featuring white lilies surrounding a brown cross on a blue background. The top has a floral pattern and the bottom reads, "For Your Intentions" in elegant script.

Novena

$90

Nine consecutive days of Masses for a person or intention

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Gregorian

$300

Thirty days of consecutive Masses for a beloved departed.

Offering Gregorian Masses for the deceased dates back to Pope Gregory the Great (540-604). According to the legend, when Gregory was a monk, a fellow monk died and appeared to one of the monks saying that he was suffering excruciating agony in purgatory and asked for 30 Masses to be celebrated for the release of his soul. The monk agreed but lost track of the number of Masses he said for this intention. Around a month later the deceased monk once again appeared, but this time radiant in heavenly glory and thanked him for the Masses which had released him from his suffering. Quickly the monks got together and figured out that the 30th Mass had just been completed the very moment he appeared.

 

Few people are ready for heaven immediately after death, and the Mass has infinite intercessory power for these souls. Thus, a request for such a series of Masses is a spiritual act of mercy obtaining a plenary indulgence on behalf of the deceased.



The Masses need not be said by the same priest at the same altar. If a priest who has accepted the obligation of the series finds that he must break the series for a reasonable cause (e.g., the celebration of a funeral or a wedding etc.) the priest must complete the 30 Masses as soon as possible, but need not begin the series anew. For this reason, Gregorian Masses are usually celebrated where priests have fewer strictly pastoral commitments such as in monasteries, seminaries, priestly houses of studies and retirement homes, and most especially in the Missions.



 

To order a Mass card call or visit:
Society for the Propagation of the Faith


c/o San Diego Office for the Missions


3888 Paducah Drive, San Diego, CA 92117


Tel. (858) 490-8250

$100.00

Perpetual Membership

As a Member you promise to pray daily to the patrons of the missions for the missionary work of the Church by saying the following:

  • 1 Our Father,
  • 1 Hail Mary,
  • St. Francis Xavier – Pray for us,
  • St. Therese of Lisieux – Pray for us,
  • Our Lady Queen of the Missions – Pray for us.
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Membership in the Propagation of the Faith

As a baptized Catholic you have the privilege and responsibility to participate in the worldwide mission of the Church by offering your prayers, sacrifices and financial support throughout the year especially during Advent and Lent. If you wish to become a Member your intentions will be prayed for in over 15,000 masses a year.

Below is a sample of the certificate provided when you order a Perpetual Membership. It has a white hard cover with the signed and dated certificate placed in the inside right side and a picture of your choice placed in the inside left side. This will include registration in the membership database.

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Becoming a Monthly Donor

Becoming a monthly donor is a great way to deepen your commitment to care for the poor and suffering around the world. Even the smallest amount can make a huge difference and when it is multiplied by twelve every year it becomes a huge gift for someone struggling across the world from you. Giving monthly is a monthly reminder of all of the gifts we enjoy and how we are blessed to be able to share those gifts with those who have little.

Missionaries the world over use your gifts to live out the Corporal works of Mercy in their lives:

  • To feed the hungry
  • To give drink to the thirsty
  • To clothe the naked
  • To shelter the homeless
  • To visit the sick
  • To ransom the captive
  • To bury the dead

In addition, by giving monthly, you share in the everyday lives of those providing spiritual support to those desperately in need:

  • To instruct the ignorant
  • To counsel the doubtful
  • To admonish sinners
  • To bear wrongs patiently
  • To forgive offences willingly
  • To comfort the afflicted
  • To pray for the living and the dead.

Won’t you become a partner in these works and pray and donate monthly for the Missions?

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About the Coat of Arms

Bishop Pulido’s coat of arms is divided into four quarters with wavy horizontal lines from top to bottom. The blue and white lines represent the Blessed Virgin Mary. They also suggest water, which alludes to Jesus washing the feet of His disciples and to the waters of baptism. The red and gold lines represent the Holy Spirit and fire. The colors also can be seen as referring to the Blood that (along with water) poured from Jesus’ side at His crucifixion, as well as to the bread (gold) and wine (red) transformed into the Eucharist. At the center is a roundel featuring a symbolic representation of the “mandatum” (washing of the feet), which he believes exemplifies service to all humanity. The roundel’s outer edge is a line composed of small humps; it is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Diocese of Yakima, where Bishop Pulido served as a priest before being named a bishop.

About the Coat of Arms

Bishop Pham’s coat of arms depicts a red boat on a blue ocean, which is crisscrossed by diagonal lines suggesting a fisherman’s net. This symbolizes his ministry as a “fisher of men,” as well as how his own father had been a fisherman. The boat is also a symbol of the Church, which is often referred to as the “barque of Peter.” At the center of the sail is a red beehive (a symbol of the bishop’s baptismal patron saint, St. John Chrysostom, who was known as a “honey-tongued” preacher). The beehive is surrounded by two green palm branches (an ancient symbol of martyrdom; the bishop’s ancestors were among Vietnam’s first martyrs). The eight red tongues of fire around the boat are a symbol of the Holy Spirit and a representation of the diversity of ethnic and cultural communities. The red of the boat, the beehive and the tongues of fire allude to the blood of the martyrs.

About the Coat of Arms

The coat of arms combines symbols that reflect Bishop Bejarano’s spiritual life and priestly ministry. The main part of the shield shows four wavy vertical lines on a gold background. These represent flowing waters. This alludes to his chosen motto and also symbolizes the graces that come from the Divine life to quench our thirst for God. The upper third of the shield is red because it is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Order of Mercy, of which the Bishop’s patron saint, Raymond Nonnatus, was a member. The central symbol resembles a monstrance because St. Raymond is often depicted holding one. The Eucharist is Bishop Bejarano’s inspiration for his vocation. It was through the Eucharist that he received his call to the priesthood at age seven and which keeps his faith and his ministry going. It represents the call to offer oneself as a living sacrifice. The monstrance is flanked on either side by an image of the Sacred Heart, alluding to the mercy of God and echoing the idea of a sacrificial offering of oneself united to the sacrifice of Christ, and of a rose for Our Lady. It is an allusion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, and highlights the bishop’s Hispanic heritage.

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