Kyrie eleison

Lord, Have Mercy

Near the start of Mass we ask for God’s mercy. These words are Greek, not Latin: the Latin Mass has kept them in the language of the first Christians.

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About the voice: it’s your device’s own Italian voice, which is close to Church Latin but sometimes puts the stress on the wrong part of a word. When they differ, go by the blue spelling.

This device has no Italian voice, so it can’t read the Latin aloud. The blue spellings show how to say each word.

How Church Latin sounds It sounds a lot like Italian. See the few rules, each with a word to hear.