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- Simple benefices are those which involve only the duty of reciting the Divine Office or of celebrating Mass. Double benefices imply the care of souls or jurisdiction in the external forum or administrative functions, and, if they be episcopal or supra-episcopal in rank, are styled major benefices.
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Before the Council of Trent a simple benefice could lawfully be conferred on a cleric as early as his seventh year, but since that council the recipient of a simple benefice must be in his fourteenth year, and for double benefices the age of twenty-four years completed is always required.
Oct 20, 2022 · Let’s take a look at the full, precise definition of a benefice, and at how it developed into a method for too many dishonest clerics to bleed church institutions (and the faithful!) dry. Then we’ll see what the Church did to reform the abuse—and how, in the process, it developed a very different method of providing priests and bishops ...
Out of gratitude for the foundation or endowment of churches and benefices, the Church grants founders, if they wish to reserve it, the right of patronage, the first and chief privilege of which is the right of presenting a cleric for the benefice.
the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of some spiritual service. Four characteristics are essential to every benefice: the right to revenue from church property, the beneficed cleric being the usufructuary and not the proprietor of the source of his support;
Jun 11, 2015 · As the diocesan bishop is chief pastor of the diocese, admission to the spiritualities is given by them or their commissary (often an area, suffragan or assistant bishop, but can be any cleric). The temporalities are the actual legal possession of the benefice as property.
Lectors received a simple benediction; acolytes were created by handing them the linen bag in which they carried the Eucharist; subdeacons by the reception of the chalice. Moreover, while deacons and priests could be ordained only on the four Ember Saturdays and on two Saturdays in Lent, minor orders could be conferred on any day.
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They show Grosseteste experimenting with a novel form of parish organisation, using grants of simple benefices ( simplex beneficium) to ensure appropriate provision for a parochial priestly function whilst offering a constructive compromise to the laity who had the right to nominate clergy for churches (the patrons) when their candidates were de...
