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| | Introits, Kyrie Eleison, Eirene pasi |
 | | When the priest had finished the Introit he proceeds to the middle of the altar, and there recited alternately with the server the "Kyrie eleison," or Minor Litany, as it used to be called in the early days. |
 | | Of such a nature are the words "alleluia," "hosanna," and "Kyrie eleison." But there is a deeper reason than this for retaining them in he Mass. |
 | | From the Greek we have "Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison," and in the Improperia of Good Friday, "Agios Theos, Agios Ischuros, Agios Athanatos"; and from the Hebrew, "amen," "Alleluia," "hosanna," "Sabaoth," "Cherubim" and "seraphim," and several others which occur now and then in the Epistles and Gospels. |
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