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For Guidance

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 Trisagion

An alternative to the Kyrie

Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy upon us.

Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός, Ἅγιος ἰσχυρός, Ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς.

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Provenance

Byzantine, c.451

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One of the oldest surviving formulas of Christian corporate prayer, the Trisagion is a threefold cry of praise first documented in the minutes of the Council of Chalcedon (451). It traveled from Byzantium into Western Good Friday worship and then into modern Anglican prayer books, where it appears as an alternative to the Kyrie.