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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