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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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.