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Originally Posted by ThirdEyeMom  Hi there, Freud! Did you ever solve the mystery?
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Well, I was at their house today for Father's Day. It was a brief visit, so I wasn't able to talk to them in depth about the meaning of their Perpetual Enrollments.
As we were leaving, I was looking at the certificates and my boyfriend's father said, "Oh, yeah, those excuse us from mass," and my boyfriend responded, "[freud] says they mean something else." I told them briefly what I "thought" they were and asked them to read the text to me, which is in Spanish. His mother read the text and then went on to explain that her aunt, who was involved in with the Franciscans, gave them to her.
Even though she read the text, which obviously just says that the Franciscan's will be praying for them at every mass, she was adamant that it also meant that they did not have to attend mass. She said, "They don't give these out to just anybody..." I looked inquisitively at her and kind of just shrugged my shoulders and said that I was pretty sure that people could buy them from any church and that I think it just means that people will be praying for them, but that it did not mean that they were excused from mass. I didn't want it to turn into a confrontation of any sort, so I just left it at that. She thinks that they are special declarations from the POPE and explained that the priest who had signed it was allowed to sign things like this on behalf of the Pope...Don't know if I could do anything else, seems like they truly do not understand what these things really are.
