Doxology (OLD HUNDREDTH)

Doxology (OLD HUNDREDTH) The Doxology is sung in churches around the world, often as a congregational response to the presentation of tithes and offerings. It is often added to the end of canticles, psalms, and hymns. The tradition derives from a similar practice in the Jewish synagogue, where some version of the Kaddish serves to terminate each section of the service. Among Christian traditions a doxology is typically an expression of praise sung to the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is common in high hymns for the final stanza to take the form of a doxology. Doxologies occur in the Eucharistic prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours, hymns, and various Catholic devotions such as novenas and the Rosary. Gloria in excelsis Deo 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, forming a doxology. Gloria Patri setting by Henry Wellington Greatorex. The Gloria Patri, so named for its Latin incipit, is commonly used as a doxology in many Christian traditions, including the Roman Catholics, Old Catholics, Independent Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Reformed Baptists and United Protestants.[5] It is called the “Lesser Doxology”, thus distinguished from the “Great Doxology” (Gloria in Excelsis Deo), and is often called simply “the doxology”. As well as praising God, it was regarded as a short declaration of faith in the equality of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity.