Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism
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.
The Mass is the central liturgy of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. As defined by the Church at the Council of Tre
Mass (liturgy)
…Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in some Anglican churches, and on rare…
Tridentine Mass celebrated by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Depiction of the first Mass in Chile, by Pedro Subercaseaux
Mass of Paul VI (post–Vatican II)
Tridentine Mass (1962 missal), Solemn Mass form