thanksgiving mass
Eucharistic celebration service
A thanksgiving mass is a Catholic liturgical service offered in gratitude—for recovery from illness, safe travel, answered prayers, or blessings received.
Unlike requiem masses for the dead, thanksgiving masses celebrate positive outcomes: The family held a thanksgiving mass after her successful surgery.
The term appears in other Christian traditions with similar liturgical practices.
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- church serviceOrganized Christian worship gathering
- harvestGathering mature crops
- fall harvestSeasonal crop gathering
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
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thanksgiving masscivil ceremony
Nonreligious legal marriage
Thanksgiving dinner · civic holiday · harvest festival · family gathering · national holiday
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