Thomas Aquinas

“ Whatever is given to the poor is not a sacrifice properly speaking; yet it is called a sacrifice in so far as it is given to them for God's sake. In like manner, and for the same reason, it can be called an oblation, though not properly speaking, since it is not given immediately to God. Oblations properly so called fall to the use of the poor, not by the dispensation of the offerers, but by the dispensation of the priests. ”

“ Now it is a point of natural law that man should make an offering in God's honor out of the things he has received from God, but that the offering should be made to any particular person, or out of his first-fruits, or in such or such a quantity, was indeed determined in the Old Law by divine command; but in the New Law it is fixed by the declaration of the Church, in virtue of which men are bound to pay first-fruits according to the custom of their country and the needs of the Church's ministers. ”

“ It would seem that men are not bound by precept to make oblations. Men are not bound, at the time of the Gospel, to observe the ceremonial precepts of the Old Law, as stated above (FS, Q [103] , AA [3] ,4) . Now the offering of oblations is one of the ceremonial precepts of the Old Law, since it is written (Ex. 23:14) : "Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts with Me," and further on (Ex. 23:15) : "Thou shalt not appear empty before Me." Therefore men are not now under a necessity of precept to make oblations. ”