Mass
Catholic worship service
Mass is the central act of worship in the Catholic Church, a ritual reenacting Christ's sacrifice through the consecration of bread and wine.
Catholics attend Mass on Sundays and holy days: She goes to Mass every morning.
Musical settings of the liturgy are also called Masses: Bach's Mass in B minor. (Lowercase mass refers to quantity or physical matter.)
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- communionProfound shared closeness
altar · chalice · homily · consecration · priest · transubstantiation · host · wafer · wine · missal
choir
Organized group of singers
choral · Bach · Mozart · Beethoven · Haydn · Bernstein · Gloria · Kyrie · polyphonic · sacred
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- Catholic liturgymissal, lectionary, liturgical year, rubrics, homily
Massweightlessness
Absence of apparent mass
vacuum · void · emptiness · nothingness · immateriality
MassQuaker meeting
Silent communal religious service
prayer meeting · revival · chapel service · sermon · Bible study
- center of massAverage position of distributed weight
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- mass tourismLarge-scale commercial travel
- mass murderKilling multiple people simultaneously
- mass mediaLarge-scale communication channels
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication