Lord's Prayer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Varied liturgical use==== In the [[Byzantine Rite]], whenever a priest is officiating, after the last line of the prayer he intones the doxology, "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.",{{efn|In Greek: {{lang|grc|Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα· τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος· νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων.}}}} and in either instance, reciter(s) of the prayer reply "Amen". Adding a doxology to the Our Father is not part of the liturgical tradition of the [[Roman Rite]] nor does the Latin [[Vulgate]] of St. [[Jerome]] contain the doxology that appears in late Greek manuscripts. However, it is recited since 1970 in the Roman Rite [[Order of Mass]], not as part of the Lord's Prayer but separately as a response acclamation after the [[Embolism (liturgy)|embolism]] developing the seventh petition in the perspective of the Final Coming of Christ. In most Anglican editions of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'', the Lord's Prayer ends with the doxology unless it is preceded by the [[Kyrie|Kyrie eleison]]. This happens at the daily offices of Morning Prayer ([[Mattins]]) and Evening Prayer ([[Evensong]]) and in a few other offices. {{efn|For instance, in [http://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/principal-services/word/mornevebcp/morningbcp.aspx Morning Prayer] the doxology is included in the Lord's Prayer in the Introduction, but not in the Prayers after the Apostles' Creed because it is preceded by the ''Kyrie eleison''.}} The vast majority of [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churches conclude the Lord's Prayer with the doxology. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page