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Converts seek religion, not golf, nursing yen for prayer (5,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kyrie eleison

'prayer' is the definition.
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'converts seek religion not golf nursing yen' is the wordplay.
'converts' indicates anagramming the letters.
'not' suggests deleting specific letters.
'golf' becomes 'g' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'nursing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'yen' becomes 'y' (resembles the symbol for the currency of Japan).
'seek'+'religion'='seekreligion'
'seekreligion' with 'g' taken out is 'seekreliion'.
'seekreliion' with letters rearranged gives 'krieeleison'.
'krieeleison' enclosing 'y' is 'KYRIE ELEISON'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Another definition for kyrie eleison that I've seen is " Opening phrase of Mass".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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