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Mother Ximenes' Handbook for Grade School Nuns features a section that discusses ways to turn any parish's procession into a spectacular event - or close to it [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 112-3]. It is noted St. Semina's grade school once amassed a number of solemn Doxologies, among other prayers, in two months.
Bowen feels that Solemn Doxologies may be the Gloria Patri, this short prayer: "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen."
"This was usually called the Gloria Patri for the first two words in Latin, and known as the lesser doxology; the greater doxology is a much longer prayer called the Gloria which is one of the fixed parts of the Mass. As I mentioned above, the 'for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen' prayer is also referred to as the Doxology. Anyway, I nominate the Gloria Patri as the prayer John meant."
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Be_to_the_Father |
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