Dear Christina:

Concerning Indulgences: The Rosary Confraternity you mention is wrong. The Norms for Indulgences specifically state:

3. No one, acquiring indulgences, can apply them to other living persons.

4. Partial as well as plenary indulgences can always be applied to the departed by way of suffrage.

Thus, any indulgence that you acquire may be applied to yourself or to a person in purgatory, but not to a living person.

Concerning Mass Intentions: offering such intentions before Mass or during the General Intercessions is fine.

I usually offer my private intentions during the Communion Rite. I say, "My Lord and My God", after the priest raises the Bread, and then again after the priest raises the cup.

After saying "May Lord and My God" when the Bread is raised, I add my personal Mass Intention. There is little time to do this, so just a mention of a name or two is all I do. If you wish to offer intentions of many people, or include more than just a name, then it is best to offer that intention before Mass, or during the Intentions. It is your choice.

Concerning the Grace Received from Mass and Communion: It is not possible to give away the grace we receive from Communion, which is spiritual life. If we gave away our spiritual life, we would go to hell.

But, we can share the grace of Mass. Offering a private intention "includes" that person in the grace of the Mass. If you look in your bulletin you will find a list of Mass Intentions, people for whom the Mass is said for the particular day and Mass. This is a public intention. What we are talking about here is the same thing, but a private intention.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary