Help finding name of Latin hymn/song sung during Mass!

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I am trying to figure out what the name of a Latin hymn/song that is sung during Mass. I am guessing that other churches use this same song, but I really do not know. Any help would be nice!!

I am going to probably completely butcher the Latin language right now trying to write out the lyrics and I apologize for that since I am just writing how I think it is spelled just from hearing the song in my head!

It goes something like this:
" quere e eh oh quere e eh, christ eh, eh he le so oh. "

that was just me sort of sounding it out. I know that is not how it is spelled at all, but that is sort of what is sounds like to me when I spell it out. I am truly sorry for messing up the Latin language, but I would really like to know what this song is!!

Thank you!!:)🙂
 
It sounds to ne like the “Lord Have Mercy”. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. =Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy." Kyrie is spelled correctly. I don’t guarantee the rest. It’s amazing how much you forget when you don’t use it often.🙂
 
When did you hear this song? Beginning, middle, end of Mass?
 
Hecares said:
It sounds to ne like the “Lord Have Mercy”. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. =Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy." Kyrie is spelled correctly. I don’t guarantee the rest. It’s amazing how much you forget when you don’t use it often.🙂
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Yeap, sounds like the Kyrie to me 👍
 
I too would guess the Kyrie. If I can figure out how to put a link in, here is my favorite version of it. It was done in the mid 60’s, or thereabouts. It is sung by Congolese; there have been a few other versions done of it, but this one has stuck with me for nearly 50 years.

youtube.com/watch?v=ToNb-02n3KY&feature=related

I’m not sure if I will ever figure out this link thing, but you can guess my age-related disabilities, and hope for the best . It is from “Missa Luba”, the African Mass.
 
If it is the Kyrie it is actually Greek, not Latin. The Mass was originally in Greek in the first few centuries of the church, this is one of the few remnants of that in the Roman rite.
 
I have a follow up question on the same topic. There is a Latin song sung just before communion. Does anybody know which one that is? I don’t think it’s the Kyrie but I could be mistaken.
 
Revert_43 said:
I have a follow up question on the same topic. There is a Latin song sung just before communion. Does anybody know which one that is? I don’t think it’s the Kyrie but I could be mistaken.
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That would be the Lamb of God (Angus Dei).

Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

There are 18 different standard settings and two optional ones for the Angus Dei in Latin, in the current Graduale Romanum
 
Thank you all so much!!! My mistake, I didn’t know what language it really was but at least you all helped me figure out what the song was!!! Thank you!!!:):):)🙂
 
jonpd said:
If it is the Kyrie it is actually Greek, not Latin. The Mass was originally in Greek in the first few centuries of the church, this is one of the few remnants of that in the Roman rite.
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Most likely it was imported from the East into the already-existing Latin Mass. The Catholic Encyclopedia explains:
It is certain that the liturgy at the Rome was at one time said in Greek (to the end of the second century apparently). It is tempting to look upon our Kyrie Eleison as a surviving fragment from that time. Such, however, does not seem to be the case. Rather the form was borrowed from the East and introduced into the Latin Mass later. The older Latin Fathers, Tertullian, Cyprian, etc., do not mention it. Etheria (Silvia) heard it sung at Jerusalem in the fourth century. It is evidently a strange form to her, and she translates it: “As the deacon says the names of various people (the Intercession) a number of boys stand and answer always, Kyrie Eleison, as we should say, Miserere Domine” (ed. Heræus, Heidelberg,1908, XXIV, 5, p. 29). The first evidence of its use in the West is in the third canon of the Second Council of Vaison (Vasio in the province of Arles), in 529. From this canon it appears that the form was recently introduced at Rome and in Italy (Milan?): “Since both in the Apostolic See as also in all the provinces of the East and in Italy a sweet and most pious custom has been introduced that Kyrie Eleison be said with great insistence and compunction, it seems good to us too that this holy custom be introduced at Matins and Mass and Vespers.”
 
OraLabora said:
That would be the Lamb of God (Angus Dei).

Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Angus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

There are 18 different standard settings and two optional ones for the Angus Dei in Latin, in the current Graduale Romanum
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Thank you!
 
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