"Mass (Midnight) is that Mass which is said at midnight. At Christmas three masses are said; the first In nocte in honour of the eternal generation of our Divine Lord; the second, In aurora, in honour of His birth in time, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His mother; and the third, In die Nativitatis Domini, in remembrance of His birth in our hearts by grace. A Midnight Mass is usually a High mass, though it may be a Solemn Mass, or a Missa cantata."
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Frederick George Lee in: A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms , 1877, p. 205
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