[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think Latin was an “official” Church language until (maybe) the 7th or 8th Century. Most of the Gospels were written in Greel, and most of the early followers of Christ probably spoke the same language as Him (Aramaic).

[gorush]

Thanks...I’ll have to rethink my whole agnostic position...I’ll get back to you or I’ll have my people contact your people.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I don’t think Latin was an “official” Church language until (maybe) the 7th or 8th Century.

You obviously don't know the history behind Pope Damasus I in 382 commissioning St. Jerome to produce The Vulgate which updated the Vetus Latina. Latin was the official language of the Church in the first century, several hundred years before you "think" it was.

[iowamark]

The early Church’s liturgy was in Greek. The western Church switched to Latin gradually in the second or third century. Several of the Eastern Catholic Churches use Greek to this day.

Kyrie, eleison; “Lord, have mercy” is one of the surviving Greek phrases in the Latin liturgy.