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Glory to You, O Lord, glory to You

The people’s words before and after the Gospel at every Divine Liturgy, and at Matins, the morning service. A few seconds of praise as God’s word is read.

Picture: Christ Pantocrator, icon of the 500s, St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai

The words of the prayer

Plain English

Glory to You, O Lord, glory to You.Sung before the Gospel, and again after it

Traditional wording, 1906

Glory to Thee, O Lord; glory to Thee.

Plain English by Wiser Walk, from the Greek, with Hapgood’s 1906 translation beside it. How the wording is made. Traditional wording: Isabel F. Hapgood, Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church, 1906.

When it is said

At every Divine Liturgy the Gospel is announced, and the people answer with these words. Then the reading begins.

When it ends, the priest greets the reader with peace, and the people sing the same words again.

The same is sung at Matins, the morning service, when the priest reads the Gospel.

Where it comes from

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As the Gospel begins

At the Liturgy the call comes first: “Wisdom! Let us listen to the holy Gospel.” The deacon names the Gospel to be read, from Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Before a word of it is read, the people sing: “Glory to You, O Lord, glory to You.”

Isabel F. Hapgood, Service Book (1906): the Divine Liturgy

And again when it ends

When the reading is over, the priest says to the one who read it: “Peace be with you, who proclaim the good news.” The people sing the same words once more. In the Greek of the Liturgy they are “Doxa si, Kyrie, doxa si”, and they come at the same two moments.

Isabel F. Hapgood, Service Book (1906): the Divine Liturgy; The Divine Liturgy in Greek (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America)

In Greek

Δόξα Σοι, Κύριε, δόξα Σοι.

From the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in Greek, as printed online by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

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