Improving the management of mass intentions
Bruno DRUENNE
Good morning everyone, and to the Enoria team in particular!
If I am not mistaken, it is planned that one Sunday Mass per week (as well as at any mandatory holiday) be celebrated pro populo, without the addition of any particular prayer intention (cf. CIC1983, c. 534).
Would it therefore be possible, in the Masses module:
that at the time of creation/modification of a recurring mass an option be offered to prevent a mass intention from being assigned to this celebration?
Or a 'pro populo' option directly in mass creations? (assigning the intention 'pro populo' to these masses)
This would in fact make it possible to avoid these masses appearing in the online application form; while leaving the possibility of modifying certain masses concerned individually (for certain exceptional cases, such as for example a Sunday mass celebrated for a couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary).
In the display of the list of masses, the mention 'pro populo' could therefore appear, instead of the number of intentions planned.
Other possibilities for this, possibly complementary to the first:
simplify the selection of multiple masses for a mass intention:
currently, when you click on one of the masses in the “Assign to Mass (s)” drop-down menu, the drop-down menu automatically closes.
If the pull-down manual did not close, it would simplify the entry of multiple assignments.
Perhaps other displays for this type of multiple choice would help (for example a full screen view, or full height?)
In the Mass Intentions module, a 'Mass pro populo' action could be added, offering for example to select groups of recurring masses. (possibly in direct connection with what is proposed in the first possibility above).
There it is! It is an idea, to see if it is widely requested or not... or if the dioceses ask for it, to facilitate the application of the CIC...
Have a nice summer!
See the topic on the forum: https://web.enoria.app/forum/sujet/451
Jean-Eudes COULOMB
The mass pro populo is an obligation of the priest and the bishop for each Sunday mass and, I believe, each precept feast.
In several parishes, it is customary to celebrate a mass for several purposes, which is canonically questionable. Enoria makes it possible. For us, when several intentions appear for a single mass, intentions 2, 3, etc. are then assigned to other masses.
I think that there should be an “additional intention” field that would allow the intention to be mentioned without considering that it is celebrated and thus be able to assign it to another celebration.
Another aspect, the intentions can be entrusted to priests directly, who will take them to masses outside Enoria (“private” masses, schools, groups, etc.). I think it should be possible to attribute one or more intentions to priests directly. We could even go as far as a form where the celebrant could enter the days and places where this intention was expressed during a mass, which makes it possible to report that the mass was celebrated.
Good luck and happy new year!
Pierre POMMERET
Totally agree with the mention pro populo! Today I had to create a pro populo intention that I assigned to the big Sunday mass every week but it is quite tedious since, for reasons of posting, the number of masses to which one can assign an intention is limited. It is therefore necessary to create the pro populo intention several times... In short, it is difficult to simply apply the CIC.
Pierre POMMERET
The problem when you assign an intention to several Masses at the same time is that if you don't want to separate the intention from the Mass and take another one instead, you don't find the intention in the Masses to be distributed.
I would find it better if we could choose the number x of masses to celebrate when creating the intention, and if automatically, the intention was created x times in the intentions to be distributed.
Xavier d'Halluin
It is possible to program several masses for the same intention by creating the intention a first time with a single mass and then going back to it, it is then possible to assign several masses.