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    The Roman Gradual (Latin: Graduale Romanum) is an official liturgical book of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church containing chants, including...
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    such book for the Roman Rite is the Roman Gradual (Graduale Romanum). Other such books include the Dominican Gradual. The Gradual, like the Alleluia...
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  • Alleluia (section Roman Rite)
    or cantor then sings a verse taken from the Mass Lectionary or the Roman Gradual, after which the congregation again sings "Alleluia". In Lent the verse...
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    abbreviated to Gloria in Excelsis or simply Gloria. Gloria VIII from the Roman Gradual Gloria VIII Problems playing this file? See media help. The hymn begins...
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    antiquity, missa simply meant "dismissal". In Christian usage, however, it gradually took on a deeper meaning. The word "dismissal" has come to imply a mission...
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    Nine years later, the Graduale Triplex was published, in which the Roman Gradual, containing all the chants for Mass in a Year's cycle, appeared with...
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  • between logos (sermo) and homilia (tractatus). The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM), the official document governing the celebration of Mass,...
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    Latin liturgical rites such as the Ambrosian Rite remain, the Roman Rite has gradually been adopted almost everywhere in the Latin Church. In medieval...
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    (ideally, to be sung, as contained in the Simple Gradual) or Gradual (as contained in the Roman Gradual); Second reading (Secunda lectio) from one of the...
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    ɛˈleɪ.isɒn/ KEER-ee-ay el-AY-eess-on; Ancient Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον, romanized: Kýrie, eléēson, lit. 'Lord, have mercy'). The prayer, Kýrie, eléison...
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