Chantry
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A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings:a chantry service, a set of Christian liturgical celebrations for the dead, or
a chantry chapel, a building on private land, or an area in a parish church or cathedral reserved for the performance of these celebrations.
Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
William Wyggeston's chantry house, built around 1511, in Leicester: The building housed two priests, who served at a chantry chapel in the nearby St Mary de Castro church. It was sold as a private dwelling after the dissolution of the chantries.
Mass (liturgy)
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Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in some Lutheran churches, as well as in some Anglican churches, and on rare occasion by other Protestant churches.
Painting of a 15th-century Mass
A priest offering the Mass at St Mary's Basilica, Bangalore
The elevation of the host began in the 14th century to show people the consecrated host.
A priest administers Communion during Mass in a Dutch field on the front line in October 1944.