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The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

First published in English in 1951 and one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century theology, Joseph Jungmann’s towering work is a comprehensive study of the origins, evolution, and theology of the Mass from its earliest forms to the dawn of Vatican II. It is now revised with a chapter unavailable in the previous English-language edition. The fruit of over a decade of painstaking...

is there a conclusion with the oration. Something of the kind can have happened in the case of the Gloria. Moreover, the Gloria does not interfere with the Kyrie’s concluding in an oration, for it too seems to demand such a conclusion. The story is told that when Leo III and Charlemagne met in the year 799, the pope intoned the Gloria which was taken up by the entire clergy, whereupon the pope recited a prayer.17 We are forced, therefore, to conclude that Kyrie, Gloria, and oration are part of a
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