Okay, now I’m going to show how much I know.
The Kyrie IS in Greek.
LOL! Sometimes my brain just slips.
I detest the additions. I don’t want to hear, “Jesus Lord who sees our inner souls and all our wants, Lord have Mercy.” as we heard in Northern MI last year. And I sure don’t want the cantor to sing it all as if I’m listening to a Light Rock station, then ‘bring us up’ because we can’t figure out when she is finally going to end her solo.
The music is supposed to be prayerful and reverent.......it’s not supposed to make people feel good.
Some of it — Such as the introits during Lent, should make us feel quite subdued.
Desdemona’s choir entered with the priest, singing these a capella, if I remember correctly. It sounded wonderful.