Gloria Patri

[ glawr-ee-uh pah-tree, glohr- ]

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.”

Gloria Patri

/ ˈpæt-; ˈɡlɔːrɪə ˈpɑːtrɪ; ˈɡlɔːrɪˌɑː /

noun

1. the Lesser Doxology, beginning in Latin with these words See doxology
2. a musical setting of this

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gloria Patri¹

From Latin

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gloria Patri¹

literally: glory to the father

Example Sentences

Busch and the brother, however, kept on until the nuns collected themselves and came in with bowed heads at the verse Gloria patri.

From Project Gutenberg

He breaks out, indeed, into a burst of devotional praise—Gloria Patri—as if for some special and never-to-be-forgotten mercy.

From Project Gutenberg

Farther: 'These words were written at Keie's Coll. and not at Peterhouse, but about the walls were written in Latin, "We prays thee ever;" and on some of the images was written "Sanctus, Sanctus,xlix Sanctus;" or other, "Gloria Dei et Gloria Patri," and "Non nobis Domine;" and six angells in the windowes.'

From Project Gutenberg

Gloria, glō′ri-a, n. a doxology.—Gloria in excelsis, the 'Greater Doxology'—'Glory be to God on high;' Gloria Patri, the 'Lesser Doxology'—'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was,' &c.

From Project Gutenberg

In liturgies of the Christian Church are the Gloria Patri, the doxology beginning “Glory be to the Father,” the response Gloria tibi, Domine, “Glory be to Thee, O Lord,” sung or said after the giving out of the Gospel for the day, and the Gloria in excelsis, “Glory be to God on high,” sung during the Mass and Communion service.

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