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Are you attending? I know some Canadians who are going.
Tickets for the beatification Mass are selling for $15 per seat.
But isn’t Mass supposed to be free of charge?
Canon 1221. Entry to a church is to be free and gratuitous during the time of sacred celebrations.
Even if the Mass is being held in a stadium rather than a church, it seems wrong to charge admission to Mass.
First, it is NOT in a church. Also, do you suppose that use of the stadium is without expense? You might not know this, but the Actor (the person or entity which advances a cause in the first place) is responsible for all the expenses related to the cause thereafter. That can be a considerable amount, particularly in the cause of a modern person, from living memory, whom a lot of people knew and who had a large body of work. Travel for interviews… salaries for people who do translations or studies… creation of the volumes of research … on and on and on.
I know, as I already said, that canon law only forbids charging admission to sacred celebrations when they take place inside of a church.
I also know that there are large expenses for a beatification Mass, such as renting a large stadium, as well as huge expenses for the whole beatification process. But most of the expenses listed would still be present if the Mass took place in a church.
I still think it would be good to avoid even the mere appearance of “charging” for attendance at Mass. We have a long tradition of asking for freewill donations, even very large donations. And we have taken up collections at the offertory, and second collections, since the time of the Apostles, and St Justin Martyr.
Why not ask Fulton Sheen’s former employers, including NBC Radio and the ABC television network, to foot the entire bill for the stadium? They certainly profited from his shows. Likewise, his sponsors, like Ivory Soap. And they would get good publicity. I think Fulton Sheen himself would have asked them.
It is only my opinion, but I would prefer free admission, free tickets for Mass. Station hundreds of Knights of Columbus around the venue with large plastic buckets, asking for voluntary donations.
If I were pope. But I’m not.
$15 isn’t much, compared with travel and lodging. It certainly isn’t concert or game ticket prices, so I doubt very much that it will cover more than the rent.
Will it be livestreamed?