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Look up missa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Missa may refer to: Mass (liturgy) Mass (music), a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music Missa brevis Missa solemnis (explains the term and lists several works) Miss A, a Korean girl group Missa pro defunctis and Missa defunctorum, alternative names for the Requiem mass For the etymological root of missa see Ite missa est Missa ...
Introduction: Three words that do not mark an end, but a beginning You’ve probably heard them dozens, perhaps hundreds of times at the end of Mass, almost without noticing. They sound solemn, ancient, mysterious: Ite, missa est. Many believers have reduced them to a simple farewell, something like the “amen” that closes the ceremony. But in reality, these words — as brief as they are ...
Ite, missa est: The Mission That Begins at the End of the Mass
The Latin word Missa, the Catholic Mass or Eucharist, is found in the title of many polyphonic settings of the liturgical texts. The phrase Missa brevis, short Mass, was at first used to indicate a Mass with shorter musical settings of the Ordinary. It later came to be used on occasion for settings that included only the first two parts of the ordinary of the Mass, the Kyrie and the Gloria ...