mis·sa cantata

(mĭs′ə)

A Mass in which the liturgical parts are sung as in the High Mass, but which is ceremonially less elaborate.

[New Latin missa cantāta : Late Latin missa, Mass + Latin cantāta, feminine of cantātus, past participle of canere, to sing.]

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In Metro Manila, the Latin Missa Cantata is being celebrated every second Sunday of the month at Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City.

8,500 people from 71 countries to attend International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu

Prior to the council, a Eucharist celebrated in public was categorized as a missa lecta (a "read" or "low" Mass--all the ritual texts spoken by a priest celebrant and server[s]), or a missa cantata (a "sung" or "high" Mass--the majority of ritual texts chanted) or a missa solemn is (a "solemn" Mass, which was a missa cantata celebrated with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon).

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