Q: I agree with what you wrote in your post of 21 May 2025: “The GILH never gives any instructions for a change in posture at the “Glory to the Father”. I commonly see people bow, but that is by custom, not law.”
However, I sing the psalms and use the sung doxologies in the 1963 book “The Psalms: A New Translation Singing Version”. This has the Grail Psalms, used in the Divine Office, which is used in Australia and other countries. Some doxologies include the name “Jesus” for example: “Give praise to the Father Almighty, to his Son, Jesus Christ the Lord” …
This doxology in not in the Divine Office, but I think its use is reasonable with sung psalms. The doxology with “Jesus” is in the 1969 book “The Simple Gradual for Sundays and Holy Days” edited by John Ainslie which has “Concordat cum originale; John Humphreys, Secretary of National Liturgical Commission of England and Wales, 20 December, 1968.” It is a translation of Graduale Simplex.
With such a doxology I think there should be a bow of the head, because the 1984 Ceremonial of Bishops has in n. 68a “a bow of the head is made at the name of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the saint in whose honor the Mass or the liturgy of the hours is being celebrated;”.
Feel free to post and discuss this in your blog.
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A: Yes, given CB 68a, and that the instruction for the head bow is in the passive voice, as it is in GIRM 275a, which calls for a bow of the head at the same time and also at the names of the Trinity, it is entirely appropriate during the Liturgy of the Hours especially for those who speak or sing the name of Jesus, Mary or the Saint of the day to bow their head at that time.