TheMissa sicca (Latin for 'dry Mass') was a form ofCatholic devotion used in the medievalCatholic Church when a fullMass could not be said, such as for funerals or marriages in the afternoon after a priest had already said Mass earlier that morning. It consisted of all components of the Mass except theOffertory,Consecration andCommunion. (Durandus, "Rationale", IV, i, 23).

Specific types ofMissa sicca includedMissa nautica, said at sea in rough weather, andMissa venatoria, said for hunters in a hurry. In somemonasteries eachpriest was also obliged to say a dry Mass after theconventual Mass.

The dry Mass was "still current custom" in the sixteeth century.^[1] Following the reform ofPope Pius V (d. 1572), it gradually disappeared, but was still sufficiently active thatGiovanni Bona (Cardinal from 1670) still argued against the practice of saying dry Masses (Rerum liturg. libr. duo, I, xv).

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

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