The Mass

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“May they rest in peace.
[Requiescant in pace.]”
—Missal, The. Order of Mass for the Dead.

The Missal is book of prayers and rites used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass during the year.

“It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)