(Greek: doxe, praise; logos, word)
Tribute of praise, as in the Gloria in Excelsis (Glory in the highest), hymn of the angels at the Birth of Our Saviour, repeated at every Mass, except at votive and requiem Masses; and in the Gloria Patri (Glory be to the Father), the short doxology.
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