From: TonyProst@aol.com
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 12:06:43 EDT
In a message dated 7/15/99 5:46:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
jwest@Highland.Net writes:
<<
the latin liturgy makes use of a legitimately latin phrase. that phrase was
taken into a song. those are the facts. There is nothing at all un-latin
about the phrase "kyrie eleison" any more than there is anything un-english
about the word "kindergarten" (a german loan word!)
>>
The question is whether a petitioner to Tiberias (or Sejanus!) would
have used the phrase to him, when asking for mercy for himself of his family.
I expect not.
Regards,
Tony Prost
All Nonnos All Day
http://members.aol.com/tonyprost
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