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O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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.