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Prayers being outsourced to India!
The U.S. and Europe are outsourcing religious masses to to Kerala in India. [Link] The church hierarchy in Kerala has established a set of rules and regulations for taking up the spiritual outsourcing jobs. Mass intentions that church authorities in the West pass over are routed to the diocesan heads that are the bishops. The bishops then hand over the work to parishes that are relatively less busy and poor, especially in the villages.
Each mass is conducted in front of a public congregation in the Malayalam language. The Holy Mass in the Roman Catholic Church re-enacts the last supper of Jesus Christ. It is considered the spiritual source of grace for whose intention it is offered. Many of these spiritual intentions are offered for thanksgiving, departed souls and other religious causes.
But these masses are not for free. Each mass that is outsourced to a local church in Kerala also carries a fair amount of money. For instance, a mass that is outsourced from the US generally is charged $40. Fee for a mass intention made in Germany is 50 euros. For a local church, $40 and 50 euros for a mass is a significant amount. The church generally gets only Rs 50 for a similar special mass that is conducted by the local people.
jon posted this at 9:30 AM
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