office of the dead

English Thesaurus

1. an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church (noun.act)

hypernym	:	office,
definition	:	a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities (noun.act)

domain category	:	church of rome, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman church, western church,
definition	:	the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy (noun.group)