Tag: “Kyrie eleison (Empty broken)”
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Kyrie eleison II
In a recent post I promised to return to a link between a modern song and ancient chant. Could Nick and Anita Haigh’s “Kyrie eleison (empty, broken)” be an example of the essence of an ancient Kyrie melody persisting in a modern song? “Kyrie eleison” is a pre-Christian prayer that was adapted into Christian liturgy very early…
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Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison means “Lord, have mercy,” a phrase that appears often in popular song and speech, perhaps because it voices our response in the face of the world’s largeness and our smallness – whether we’re overwhelmed by life’s demands or lost in wonder. But what does “Lord, have mercy” give utterance to in liturgy? More…