DOXOLOGY (3IL. dorologia. Gk. 5o;oXirita, from 355a, doxa, glory. front dokein, to seem -'- -Jolla, -login, speech. from XtyEtv. legein, to say). An ascription of glory or praise to Gad. Brief expressions of the kind are frequent in the Bible, as Rom. xvi. 27: Eph. iii. 21: Jude 25: Rev. v.13: Nix. 1. Certain special doxologies are used in various liturgies. The LEssER DOXOLOGY. or Gloria Patti ("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 he, world with out end. amen") seems first to have come into use in the fourth century, a- a profession of faith, in opposition to an Arian formula. It is used by the Roman Catholic Church at the end of every psalm and canticle, except the Te Denim and Benedicite. and in all the responsories of the breviary. It is omitted, however, a- a song of praise unsuitable to tunics of mourning,. on the
last three days of Holy Week and in the office of the dead. The Anglican Church uses it at the end of psalms and canticles. The use of the GREATER DOXOLOGY, Or Gloria fn EXcc/9ig called the angelic hymn. from its being an expansion of the song of the angels in Luke ii. 14), can be traced back at least to the third century, according to some even to the first. It is used in the beginning of the Roman mass, ex cept in Advent and Lent. and at all times at the end of the Anglican contmunion service. The TRISAGION (thrive holy) is the seraphie hymn ( Isa. vi. 3). The last stanza of a hymn written by Bishop Thomas Ken (1037-1711), beginning. "Praise God from whom all blessing.= flow." is commonly called 'the doxology' in Protestant ehurehe:.