Ite, missa est

Ite, missa est are the concluding words addressed to the people in the Mass of the Roman Rite. The words are Latin for "Go, it is the dismissal." The term "Mass" (in Latin, missa) derives from this phrase. Until the reforms of 1960, at Masses without the Gloria, Benedicamus Domino was said instead.The response of the people (or, in the Tridentine Mass, of the servers at Low Mass, the choir at Solemn Mass) is "Deo gratias" (Thanks be to God).The Catholic Encyclopedia states , the word missa here is not the participle feminine of mittere, meaning "sent"; it is a noun, "a substantive of a late form for missio. There are many parallels in medieval Latin, collecta, ingressa, confessa, accessa, ascensa - all for forms in -io."
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