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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:33:19 -0600
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From: Gerald  Herrin <geraldherrin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: kyrie origins?
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>Here is a question posed to me this weekend: why does the Latin mass use the
>Greek 'Kyrie eleison.'  I encountered an interesting Roman Catholic priest who
>had some suggestions but was interested in what others thought. Any comments?
>
>Dan Tompkins

If I remember Jungmann's "History of the Roman Rite" correctly, it is 
the remnant of the formerly all Greek liturgy used in Rome.

Gerald Herrin
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Gerald Herrin
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"The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
Paradise Lost, I. 254-55.

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