The Missa sicca (Latin for 'dry Mass') was a form of Catholic devotion used in the medieval Catholic Church when a full Mass could not be said, such as for funerals or marriages in the afternoon after a priest had already said Mass earlier that morning.
It consisted of all components of the Mass except the Offertory, Consecration and Communion.
Cardinal Giovanni Bona (Rerum liturg.
duo, I, xv) argued against the practice of saying dry Masses.
Following the reform of Pope Pius V, it gradually disappeared.