Missa sicca

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Missa sicca (

Consecration and Communion.(Durandus
, "Rationale", IV, i, 23)

Specific types of Missa sicca included Missa nautica, said at sea in rough weather, and Missa venatoria, said for hunters in a hurry. In some

conventual Mass
.

Cardinal Giovanni Bona (Rerum liturg. libr. duo, I, xv) argued against the practice of saying dry Masses. Following the reform of Pope Pius V, it gradually disappeared.

See also

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Liturgy of the Mass". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.