There is a lot of nuance to the subject not captured in my summary. Perhaps the monks were offering free blessed rosaries and you could make a free will donation for them?
From magisterium.com:
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>Thus, **selling a blessed rosary, a crucifix, a holy water font, or any other object that has received a Church blessing is a simoniacal act**.
is this ai generated?
blessed items are sold all the time by churches and churchmen. A blessed item may be sold but only for its intrinsic value, not the value of its blessing. it’s not simony to sell a wooden rosary that happens to be blessed for the cost of the wood and to fund a monastery etc. to sell it at a certain price because it was blessed would be simony.
i think the above takeaway isn’t sufficiently nuanced.
is this ai generated?
blessed items are sold all the time by churches and churchmen. A blessed item may be sold but only for its intrinsic value, not the value of its blessing. it’s not simony to sell a wooden rosary that happens to be blessed for the cost of the wood and to fund a monastery etc. to sell it at a certain price because it was blessed would be simony.
i think the above takeaway isn’t sufficiently nuanced.