When you go to mass and the money collection is brought up to the alter, what do you think people gave as an offering before they had money. I ask because i had a giggle at mass today thinking of them old men dragging up sacks of spuds and dead pigs etc
2007-08-19 09:34:11 · 6 answers · asked by emperor_of_the_north_pole 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
IN the Middle Ages people were expected (made) to give ten per cent of their income to the Church, hence the building of Tithe barns where the crops were stored. The Church of England has in recent years tried to sell this to it's members as a good idea. Folk memory remembers how unpopular this tax was. Indeed it was part of the reason why King Henry V111 got away with the dissolution of The Monasteries
2007-08-19 10:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What ever valuables they had. In the Old Testament, (Before the birth of Jesus) people burned the first fruits of their crops and offered the best animal they had.
2007-08-19 10:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by Titus M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Provided you gave your soul to the god of this world, money was not so important.
Nothing has changed then.
2007-08-19 10:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by Jake M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a funny picture, but I guess that would be true of the church long ago. They would give from their land.
2007-08-19 11:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wood to heat the buildings food chickens food fruits first fruits of wheat oil cattle one tenth of what GOD gave you to you amen luv dad
2007-08-19 09:43:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was going to say food.
2007-08-19 09:42:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋