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。 ■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。 ■a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass 弥撒曲
常用词组 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)
语源
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'