votive Mass 1
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Definition
a mass celebrated for a special intention (as for a wedding or funeral) in place of the mass of the day.
Examples
- 1.Strict votive Masses are, first, those ordered by the rubrics of the Missal, namely a Mass of the Blessed Virgin on every Saturday in the year not occupied by a double, semi-double, octave, vigil, feria of Lent, or ember-day, or the transferred Sunday Office (Rubr. Gen., IV, 1).


