Lent

==== Omission of Gloria and Alleluia ====
The ''[[Gloria in excelsis Deo]]'', which is usually said or sung on Sundays at [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] (or Communion) of the [[Roman Rite|Roman]], [[Lutheran]] and [[Anglicanism|Anglican rites]], is omitted on the Sundays of Lent (as well as Sundays of Advent), but continues in use on [[solemnity|solemnities]] and [[Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite|feasts]] and on special celebrations of a more solemn kind.<ref name="Block2019">{{cite web |last1=Block |first1=Mathew |title="Glory to God in the Highest" - Where Did it Go? |url=https://ilc-online.org/2019/12/24/glory-to-god-in-the-highest-where-did-it-go/ |publisher=[[International Lutheran Council]] |access-date=17 March 2021 |language=English |date=24 December 2019}}</ref><ref>[[General Instruction of the Roman Missal]], 53</ref> Some [[Mass (music)|Mass compositions]] were written especially for Lent, such as Michael Haydn's ''[[Missa tempore Quadragesimae (Michael Haydn)|Missa tempore Quadragesimae]]'', without Gloria, in D minor, and for modest forces, only choir and organ. The Gloria is used on [[Maundy Thursday]], to the accompaniment of bells, which then fall silent until the ''Gloria in excelsis'' of the [[Easter Vigil]].<ref>Roman Missal, Thursday of the Lord's Supper, 7</ref>

The Lutheran [[Divine Service (Lutheran)|Divine Service]], the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Churches, and the Presbyterian service of worship associate the ''[[Alleluia]]'' with joy and omit it entirely throughout Lent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Why_don't_we_use_alleluias_during_Lent.pdf|title=Why don't we use alleluias during Lent?|year=2013|publisher=[[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]]|language=en|access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Jr.2002">{{cite book|last=Weaver|first=J. Dudley Jr.|title=Presbyterian Worship: A Guide for Clergy|year=2002|publisher=Geneva Press|language=en |isbn=978-0664502188|page=106|quote=The alleluia is traditionally not sung during Lent, and, here at the first service of Easter, it is at last reintroduced to the church's liturgy.}}</ref> not only at Mass but also in the [[canonical hours]] and outside the liturgy. The word "Alleluia" at the beginning and end of the Acclamation Before the [[Gospel (liturgy)|Gospel]] at Mass is replaced by another phrase.

Before 1970, the omission began with [[Septuagesima]], and the whole Acclamation was omitted and was replaced by a [[Tract (liturgy)|Tract]]; and in the [[Liturgy of the Hours]] the word "Alleluia", normally added to the ''[[Gloria Patri]]'' at the beginning of each Hour – now simply omitted during Lent – was replaced by the phrase ''Laus tibi, Domine, rex aeternae gloriae (Praise to you, O Lord, king of eternal glory)''.

Until the [[Ambrosian Rite]] was revised by Saint [[Charles Borromeo]] the liturgy of the First Sunday of Lent was festive, celebrated with chanting of the Gloria and Alleluia, in line with the recommendation in Matthew 6:16, "When you fast, do not look gloomy."<ref name=Thouret/><ref name="RC-en-lent-duration"/><ref name=Initii/>

In the [[Byzantine Rite]], the Gloria ([[Great Doxology]]) continues to be used in its normal place in the [[Matins]] service, and the Alleluia appears all the more frequently, replacing "God is the Lord" at Matins.