Lexicon:Christe eleison ... kyrie eleison

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AGB: Agreed.  My statement of origins is a little ambiguous -  most western Catholics recognize the formula as the solitary Greek snippet found in their traditional Latin Mass, rather than thinking of it as a borrowing from the unfamiliar - to them - wholly Greek rite.

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Citation: Christe eleison ... kyrie eleison
Language: Greek
References: Master and Commander, page 54
The Wine-Dark Sea, page 116
Meaning: Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy

Notes:

From the Latin Mass.

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Actually originates from the Greek Orthodox liturgy

AGB: Agreed. My statement of origins is a little ambiguous - most western Catholics recognize the formula as the solitary Greek snippet found in their traditional Latin Mass, rather than thinking of it as a borrowing from the unfamiliar - to them - wholly Greek rite.



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