Money to priest for Christening?

Yeh we gave him 50 euro for the day, about 4 weeks ago it seems to be the norm, it's not really for the priest it's more for the church or
 
My family used to give the priest a voucher for restaurant, good shoe shop or menswear shop as then he got to keep it.
 
I live in a Dublin parish. Any monies received by the parish church for baptisms are divided as follows:

50% to the priest who baptised the baby
25% to the parish to cover costs (eg the cost of heating the church or for resources eg. leaflets etc..
25% to the diocese
So in the event of giving €50, the priest gets €25, €12.50 retained by the parish and €12.50 to the Dublin diocese.
 
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