Mass
/mæs/noun
1- the Christian Eucharist or Holy Communion, especially in the Roman Catholic Church弥撒：
we went to Mass
我们去做弥撒
the Latin Mass.
用拉丁文的弥撒。
1.1
- a celebration of this弥撒活动：
there was a Mass and the whole family was supposed to go.
有一次弥撒活动, 全家人都得去。
1.2
- a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass弥撒曲。
短语
hear Mass
- attend a celebration of the Mass without taking communion (especially as the former usual practice of lay Catholics)听弥撒（指参加弥撒活动但不参加圣餐礼）。
词源
Old English mæsse, from ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin miss- 'dismissed', from mittere, perhaps from the last words of the service, Ite, missa est 'Go, it is the dismissal'.