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The word '''''Mass''''' is the general designation in western Christianity, particularly in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], for the Holy Eucharist or Eucharistic Sacrifice, the equivalent of the phrase '''[[Divine Liturgy]]''' used by Orthodox Christians.
The term "Mass" is derived from the ''missa'', a late-Latin word form of ''missio'', itself a form of ''missamittere'' (dismissal"to send"), a . The word used occurs in the concluding formula ordinary dismissal of the Latin Mass in Latin: ''Ite; missa est'' ("Go; it is the dismissalyou are sent forth"), and came into use in the [[Church of Rome]] in the fourth century. The form in English progressed from ''maesse'' before William the Conquerer's conquest of England to ''messe'' or ''masse'' in Middle English.
The word "Mass" is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to the Divine Liturgy by Orthodox Christians who may have been associated with communities who came from areas in central Europe that was affected by the [[Union of Brest]]-Litovsk.
