Chapter — Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis

Chapter III: On the Acts by Which We Offer Something to God

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691. Matter to be treated. - We can offer something to God either a) by handing it over, as happens in sacrifice and in oblations of various kinds, whether made to God Himself, or to His ministers, the priests; - or b) by promising something, which happens in a vow, whose essence, matter, obligation, and de-obligation are to be considered successively.

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