KURIE ELEHSON ME

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Thu Jul 15 08:29:41 EDT 1999


At 02:40 AM 7/15/99 -0400, you wrote:

>
>Sorry, this IS a Greek phrase and Greek alone; no Latin here to be found 
>whatsoever!
>The Church in Rome uses this Greek phrase even now because for the first 200 
>years, 
>Roman Christians celebrated their liturgy mostly in Greek and NOT in Latin. 
>Dimitri

All those latin speakers who performed the litutgy for 1000 years in that
language will be amazed that they were not using a latin phrase.  I am
sorry, but you are wrong as can be.  This phrase is indeed latin, and it was
indeed used by the latin speaking church for over a millenium.

It might very well be a greek phrase- but the question originally posed had
to do with a song.  the song's writer was interviewed about it and per his
own testimony he admitted adopting the phrase from the church liturgy.

best,

jim

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