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" Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") is a Christian hymn known also as the Greater Doxology (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or Gloria Patri) and the Angelic Hymn [1] [2] /Hymn of the Angels. [3] The name is often abbreviated to Gloria in Excelsis or simply Gloria
The Gloria Patri, also known in English as the Glory Be to the Father or, colloquially, the Glory Be, is a doxology, a short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies. It is also referred to as the Minor Doxology (Doxologia Minor) or Lesser Doxology , to distinguish it from the Greater Doxology, the Gloria in Excelsis Deo .
Below are the four lines of the doxology Gloria Patri (commonly known as the "Gloria"), with the text coloured to show which words correspond to which notes in the music (pointing varies from choir to choir): Glory be to the Father, and ' to the ' Son : and ' to the ' Ho ly ' Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ' ev er ' shall be :
The larger, centre card contains the Gloria, the prayer Munda cor meum recited before reading the Gospel, the Credo, the prayer for offering the Host (Suscipe, Sancte Pater), the Words of Consecration, and portions of the Canon of the Mass. Usually, the card's centre contains a picture of the Crucifixion.
The Gloria in excelsis Deo, also called the Greater Doxology, is a hymn beginning with the words that the angels sang when the birth of Christ was announced to shepherds in Luke 2:14. Other verses were added very early, [citation needed] forming a doxology.
Gloria is a sacred choral composition by Karl Jenkins, completed in 2010. It is an extended setting of the Gloria part of the mass in Latin , on the text of the Gloria in three movements, interpolated with two movements on other texts, Psalm 150 in Hebrew and a song derived from biblical verses in English.
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Originally, the entrance of the priest who was to celebrate Mass was accompanied by the singing of a whole psalm, with Gloria Patri (doxology). While the psalm was at first sung responsorially, with an antiphon repeated by all at intervals, while a solo singer chanted the words of the psalm, it was soon sung directly by two groups of singers alternating with each other, and with the antiphon ...