Question about the glory be prayer

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A fellow Catholic asked me the glory be he wants to know how what the phrase a war without end means. Specifically he wants to know how the world can go on without end when according to revelations the world is going to be destroyed. Can someone help me answer this or provide documentation?
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The traditional English translation is actually incorrect. The Latin “et in saecula saeculorum” is better rendered as “unto ages of ages”. Not sure exactly where the error comes from.

Edit: Found it. Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer.
 
I always knew it to be “world without end,” not “war without end”.
 
sorry guys I need to clear something up that was my fault I’m using speech recognition and I didn’t notice it typed war instead of world. That mistake in not from the book.
 
I found it thank you everyone sorry for trying to rewrite the prayer. I still can’t believe it typed war instead of world.:o
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto,
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
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Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, also now, and always, and to ages of ages. Amen
 
Well I’ve always taken it to mean that the Trinity’s world, which is heaven, is without end.

Just a thought.
 
Saecula can indeed mean world, not necessarily the planet but a plane/state of existence. Saecula saeculorum can be translated into unto ages of ages, or unto worlds of worlds. World without end does not really refer to the planet specifically, but to eternity.

I think the ICET translation in the Liturgy of the Hours gets the idea better. “As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever.” The Collects also end with phraseology that better captures the idea, “forever and ever.”
 
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