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For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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The Gloria Patri

Said throughout the Office

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

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Provenance

Early Church, 4th–7th c.

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest prayers in Christian use, the Gloria Patri is a brief acclamation of the Trinity's eternal glory, sung or said after every psalm and canticle in the Daily Office. Its two-clause shape was forged in the fires of the fourth-century Arian controversy, and it has closed Christian psalmody for over fifteen hundred years.