E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

CHAPTER the FIFTEENTH.
MASS FOR THE DEAD.
MASS for the Dead ranks amongst Votive Masses.
A Votive Mass does not correspond with the Office
of the day ; it is said by the choice of the priest, hence
its name (votum). A Votive Mass may be said on all
feasts of double and more
days except Sundays,
than double rank, and certain other days specially
excepted.
Mass for the Dead may be said on a double pro
vided the body be present. High Mass for the Dead
is forbidden even in the presence of the body during
the last three days of Holy Week and on all the great
feasts of the Church.
Mass for the Dead is said (with the exception
noted) first, when the person dies, or as the Latin phrase
has it, Die obitus sen
depositionis, which means any day
that intervenes from the day of death to burial
(Depositio the putting away) ; secondly, on the third day
after death, in memory, as has been suggested, of our
Lord s Resurrection after three days ; thirdly, on
the seventh day, in memory of the mourning of
the Israelites seven days for Joseph ; fourthly,
on the
thirtieth day (Month s Mind), in memory of Aaron, for