No, my FRiend, you are reading into the intentions of the person buying the Mass Card. You are reading what you want into the above document.
I can understand where this could be easily confused, but you can’t say what is in someone’s heart. You are accusing a Catholic of something that is untrue. As I stated, we get the same mass said whether there is an exchange of cash or not. How can that be buying?
Intentions of the person are irrelevant. The fact is that according to RC theology when the mass is said the person for whom the mass was purchased gets their sentence reduced by x number of years. The more money spent, the more masses said, the greater the reduction in sentence. It’s quite simple.
In former days selling indulgences got a bad rap cuz they were being sold for everything and anything, including to build the Papa new dig at the Vatican.
The number of things that can be purchased to help lighten the burden of a soul now adays, at least here in America, has been reduced, but the fundamental practice of buying and selling still exists.
BTW, I have no doubt that mass cards are a custom for many people and they have no idea about their origin or intention. But the priest celebrating the mass knows the purpose related to the soul in purgatory.