Gloria Patri

American  

[glawr-ee-uh pah-tree, glohr-] / ˈglɔr i ə ˈpɑ tri, ˈgloʊr- /

noun

1. the short hymn “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

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Gloria Patri British  

/ ˈɡlɔːrɪə ˈpɑːtrɪ, ˈɡlɔːrɪˌɑː-, ˈpæt- /

noun

1. the Lesser Doxology, beginning in Latin with these words See doxology

2. a musical setting of this

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Etymology

Origin of Gloria Patri

From Latin

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Example Sentences

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Gloria Patri

In Passiontide the Gloria Patri is not said, but the responsory is repeated ab initio.

From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley

In the now Episcopal Churches of the land, a form of worship which gave a place to the Lord's Prayer, the Gloria Patri, the Apostles' Creed, and the Decalogue, was regarded as satisfactory.

From Presbyterian Worship Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston

In church music, the lector ceased to recite the psalm as a solo and the faithful divided into two choirs, united in the refrain Gloria Patri.

From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley

They all talked pleasantly and jested, and even laughed, as if they were anywhere but in church, only pausing when the Gloria Patri was sung from time to time at the end of a psalm.

From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The duenna went out muttering a Gloria Patri, which was exactly finished by the time she got at the other side of the door.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío

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