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Mass card

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a card stating that a Mass will be said, especially for a deceased person, and sent by the donor, as to the family of the deceased.


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A Mass card bore a quote from Isiah 41:10 on one side and showed a beaming Jackson on the other, in uniform and holding a baseball bat across his shoulders.

From Fox News Dec. 2, 2021

He slipped the Mass card from his nephew’s funeral under the driver’s-side visor of his car.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2017

They permit a viewer to step back and take in the entire space or zoom in on something as small as a Mass card.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2014

Her father’s 1968 funeral Mass card, sealed inside a block of glass, was displayed on the bookshelf, along with three copies of “Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words.”

From New York Times Oct. 9, 2012

“They blew me away,” Mr. Kubik says, as rainwater drips from his office’s leaky ceiling and Father Cunningham watches from a Mass card taped to a bookshelf.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2011

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