Thanks for your magnificent American Gradual. What a gift to the Church. As someone on one of the other chains has said it will indeed be a book of the century.
As mentioned on another chain, could you post the Gloria Patri tone for your American Gradual in pdf format (for some reason, the word version just can't be read in my standard word program).
1. Yes, the pattern you outline is correct.
2. Current rubrics do not call for omission of the Gloria Patri during Advent and Lent. Before the 1970 reform the Gloria Patri was omitted from Lent V ("Passion Sunday," as it was then called) until Easter.
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