Commontide
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.
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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.