p. 141 | Cash Value of Prayers

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 27, 1874

Cash Value of Prayers.

Abbot Martin, of St. Meinard’s Abbey, Indiana, makes an appeal to Catholics throughout the country for funds to build a Benedictine Monastery for thirty-six priests and a church to be under the invocation of “Our Lady Immaculate,” in southern Indiana. Besides offering to pray generally for the living as well as for the dead, he makes the following special and generous offer to subscribers: For each person offering $5 we shall say one mass immediately and one after his or her death, when the receipt handed for the gift is sent hither. For each person offering $25 we shall say two masses immediately and three after his or her death. For each person offering $100 we shall say five masses immediately and henceforth one every year as long as the Monastery shall exist. For each person offering $500 we shall sing one High Mass immediately and one every year hereafter, and his or her name shall be placed in the Mortuary or List of the Benefactors, which is publically recited every day after Prime.