CCC 2760

Very early on, liturgical usage concluded the Lord's Prayer with a doxology. In the Didache, we find, "For yours are the power and the glory for ever."⁴ Didache 8, 2: SCh 248, 174SCh — Sources Chrétiennes (patristic critical-edition series). The Apostolic Constitutions add to the beginning: "the kingdom," and this is the formula retained to our day in ecumenical prayer.⁵ Apostolic Constitutions, 7, 24, 1: PG 1,1016PG — Patrologia Graeca (Migne). The Byzantine tradition adds after "the glory" the words "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." the Roman Missal develops the last petition in the explicit perspective of "awaiting our blessed hope" and of the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.⁶ Titus 2:13; cf. Roman Missal 22, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer. Then comes the assembly's acclamation or the repetition of the doxology from the Apostolic Constitutions.