Sacramentary

In the Western Church of the Early and High Middle Ages, a sacramentary was a liturgical book used by a bishop or priest for services and the Mass, containing only the words he himself spoke or sang, unlike the later missals that gathered every text of the Mass regardless of who read it. Sacramentaries also included texts for services beyond the Mass, such as ordinations, the consecration of a church or altar, exorcisms, and blessings, material later separated into pontificals and rituals. In the late twentieth century, some English-speaking countries used the word sacramentary for the English translation of the Roman Missal, echoing the earlier books' habit of omitting the parts of the Mass not said by the priest.