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1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Said for hunters in a hurry, was a kind of dry Mass (Missa sicca), a common form of devotion used for funerals or marriages in the afternoon, when a real Mass could not be said. It consisted of the Mass with the Offertory, Consecration, and Communion omitted.