Mass (ritual)

A Mass is a Roman Catholic church service that is usually held every Sunday, although it is also held on special holidays such as Easter and Christmas. It is particular in that it involves the performance of holy communion (referred to as the Eucharist) in every service, with the belief that the communion wafer and the wine served at communion is transformed respectively into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
In the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, Masses are usually held in human communities, since during the time period that most of the stories take place, the dominant form of Christianity was Catholicism. Tapper, being a Christian who was curious about human communities, attended a few Masses as merely an observer. It was during one that he befriended Father Doyle, although they both respected the fact that they were of two different beliefs when it came to Christianity as a whole.

The church services in the Smurf Village Chapel and the Smurfette Island Chapel incorporate some elements of the Mass, particularly of its pastor wearing robes, but otherwise are modeled more after Evangelical church services, restricting holy communion to at least once a month for believers.