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Kyrie

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Kyr·i·e  (kîr-)
n.
1.
a. A brief petition and response used in various liturgies of several Christian churches, beginning with or composed of the words "Lord, have mercy."
b. A brief petition and response that together comprise the first item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass.
2. A musical setting of either of these sets of petition and response.
[Late Latin Krie (eleison), from Greek Krie eleson, Lord, have mercy : Krie, vocative of krios, lord, master; see keu- in Indo-European roots + eleson, aorist imperative of elein, to show mercy (from eleos, mercy).]
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Throughout his Gospel Matthew constructs a pattern of those who apply kyrie to Jesus and those who do not: believers and disciples address Jesus as "Lord" whereas his opponents refer to him as "Rabbi," "Teacher," or "Master.
Pilate the villain: an alternative reading of Matthew's portrayal of ... by Callon, Callie / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Traditionally, "propers" and "ordinaries" were antithetical terms in liturgics, with the former referring to elements of the mass that changed by season and day and the latter pertaining to elements that did not change, like the Kyrie and Gloria.
Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6): 18 June 2006 by Currents in Theology and Mission
In Zmijewski's video The Singing Lesson I, 2001, a group of deaf students is filmed singing the Kyrie to Jan Maklakiewicz's 1944 Polish Mass in a Warsaw church.
The social turn: collaboration and its discontents by Bishop, Claire / Artforum International
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