kyrie-eleison

Updated: May 26, 2025

We of the spirituality will teach you of the temporality how to die in cold blood, our hands not clenched for resistance, but folded for prayer our minds not filled with jealous hatred, but with Christian meekness and forgiveness our ears not deafened, nor our senses confused, by the sound of clamorous instruments of war; but, on the contrary, our voices composed to Halleluiah, Kyrie-Eleison, and Salve Regina, and our blood temperate and cold, as those who think upon reconciling themselves with God, not of avenging themselves of their fellow-mortals."

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery