It is also used together with the standard canticles in Morning Prayer as prescribed in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, as an option in Morning Prayer or Matins for Lutherans, and is retained by many churches of the Reformed tradition. A plenary indulgence is granted, under the usual conditions, to those who recite it in public on New Year's Eve. In the Liturgy of the Hours of Pope Paul VI, the Te Deum is sung at the end of the Office of Readings on all Sundays except those of Lent, on all solemnities, on the octaves of Easter and Christmas, and on all feasts. In the traditional office, the Te Deum is sung at the end of Matins on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass those days are all Sundays outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide on all feasts (except the Triduum) and on all ferias during Eastertide.īefore the 1961 reforms of Pope John XXIII, neither the Gloria nor the Te Deum were said on the feast of the Holy Innocents, unless it fell on Sunday, as they were martyred before the death of Christ and therefore could not immediately attain the beatific vision. 12: How the Morning Office Is to Be Said. It was restored in the 12th century in hymnals that attempted to restore the praiseful intent of the Rule of St. It was, however, removed from the New Hymnal which became prevalent in the 10th century. The hymn was part of the Old Hymnal since it was introduced to the Benedictine order in the 6th century, and it was preserved in the Frankish Hymnal of the 8th century. The Te Deum has structural similarities with a eucharistic prayer and it has been proposed that it was originally composed as part of one. Hymnologists of the 20th century, especially Ernst Kähler (1958), have shown the association with "Nicetas" to be spurious. Authorship of Nicetas of Remesiana was suggested by the association of the name "Nicetas" with the hymn in manuscripts from the 10th century onward, and was particularly defended in the 1890s by Germain Morin.
In the 20th century, the association with Nicetas has been deprecated, so that the hymn, while almost certainly dating to the 4th century, is considered as being of uncertain authorship. In 19th-century scholarship, Saint Hilary of Poitiers (died 367) and Saint Nicetas of Remesiana (died 414) were proposed as possible authors. Te Deum on a stained glass window in the Sorrowful Mother Shrine Chapel ( Bellevue, Ohio)Īuthorship of the hymn is traditionally ascribed to Saint Ambrose (died 397) or Saint Augustine (died 430).
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