~ Kyrie Eleison ~ We wrote a new Mass setting for Advent. 💜 These particular words express a plea for the full richness of God’s mercy within our vulnerability. Within the Roman Rite Latin is the official language of the Mass, which is then normally translated into the vernacular. However, one phrase within the liturgy stands out from the rest because the words are not Latin, but Greek. During the penitential rite at the beginning of Mass the priest or deacon will sometimes say, or the cantor s