Request Mass Intentions here (Combined Intentions on Sat/Sun)
The Diocese of San Bernardino permits parishes to offer combined mass intentions up to two days a week. This policy is designed to accommodate the many parishioners who find it challenging to secure available masses for their intentions. At The Holy Name of Jesus, we will accept a maximum of three combined intentions during the Saturday Vigil and all regular Sunday Masses.
**By clicking on the 'Request Mass Intentions' button above, you agree that your requested mass intention may be included in a collective mass if it falls on one of these days**
If you have any questions regarding this policy, please feel free to contact the church office.
The tradition of offering Masses for others, particularly the dead, originates in the very early Church. Given this understanding, we can add some specifics. When a priest offers Holy Mass, he has three intentions:
What does it mean to have a Mass "offered" for someone?
An individual may ask a priest to offer a Mass for several reasons:
In thanksgiving, for the intentions of another person (such as on a birthday on anniversary)Graces
One must never forget the infinite graces that flow from the Sacrifice of the Mass which benefit one’s soul. Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical "Mirae caritatis" (1902) beautifully elaborated this point and emphasized the connection between the communion of saints with the Mass:
"The grace of mutual love among the living, strengthened and increased by the sacrament of the Eucharist, flows, especially by virtue of the Sacrifice [of the Mass], to all who belong to the communion of saints."
In his encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia," our beloved late Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, taught, "
In the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the Church prays that God, the Father of mercies, will grant His children the fullness of the Holy Spirit so that they may become one body and one spirit in Christ." (No. 43).
The special personal fruits of the Mass benefit the celebrating priest who acts in the person of Christ in offering the Mass and to the people who are in attendance and participate in the offering of the Mass. These fruits are both extensively and intensively finite, since each of us is finite. Therefore, the more a Mass is offered, the more benefit is conferred.