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Mass-book
A mass-book is a book, used most commonly by the laity, as an aid while attending Catholic Mass (the principal Catholic church service). The massbook comprises scriptural readings, prayers, and psalms for the day's mass, sometimes also including homiletic or exegetical material.
Category:Missals
Usage examples of "mass-book".
And it made a man's heart sorry for the good fathers of yore who had taught them to dig and to reap, to read and to sing, who had given them European mass-books which they still preserve and study in their cottages, and who had now passed away from all authority and influence in that land - to be succeeded by greedy land-thieves and sacrilegious pistol-shots.