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Gloria in Excelsis Deo
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06583a.htmThe great doxology (hymnus angelicus) in the Mass is a version of a very old Greek form". It begins with the words sung by the angels at Christ's birth (Luke, ii, 14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology.
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