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A History of the Mass and Its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church begins with a brief dissertation of the principle liturgies in use in the East and the West at the turn of the last century. It then gives an account of the origin and meaning of the word “Mass” before providing a full account of the liturgy as it is performed in Catholic churches of the extraordinary rite. Starting with...

the Catechumens3 and Public Penitents4 from the house of God before the more solemn part of divine service began. From the twofold dismissal—viz., that of the Catechumens at the beginning of Mass, and the other, of the faithful, at the end—the entire service used to be known by the plural appellations of Missæ or Missiones (that is, the dismissals); and hence the import of such phrases so often to be met with in the writings of the early Fathers, as “inter Missarum solemnia,” “Missas facere,” and
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