Gloria in Excelsis

[There is a tradition, though not a reliable one, that this ancient Hymn was used at the Eucharist as early as the second century. Its antiquity, at all events, is unquestionable; and for many centuries it loas employed in “The Sacramentary,” both in the Latin and Greek Churches, and called Hymnus ANGELOK0M {the Hymn of Angels). It still forms the familiar closing ascription of praise in the Communion Service of the Church of England, This ‘’Angelic with its venerable associations, may leave an appropriate place In this closing page.y

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