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Summary
- Short prayers ask God to reveal the truth when someone suspects deception, when a dispute turns on hidden facts, and when a person needs to see his or her own faults, God’s will, a hidden gift or another person’s pain.
- Daniel’s prayer of thanks after “the secret was revealed” (Daniel 2:20–23) and Paul’s prayer for “the spirit of wisdom and revelation” (Ephesians 1:17–18) are quoted in full.
- Traditional prayers come from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“from whom no secrets are hid”) and the Orthodox prayer before the Gospel in Hapgood’s 1906 translation.
- French prayer sites title “Psalm 129” “for the revelation of hidden things,” but they print different psalms under it and neither mentions secrets; Psalms 139, 44, 25 and 90 speak directly of what God knows.
- Saint Lucy, martyred at Syracuse in 303, is honored as patron of the blind; praying to her to uncover secrets is a popular devotion.
- Deuteronomy 18:10 and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraph 2116) forbid divination, which differs from asking God to show the truth.
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- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Deuteronomy 18:10; 29:29; Psalm 19:12; 25:14; 32:8; 44:21; 90:8; 119:18; 129:1; 130:1, 5; 139:12, 23–24; Jeremiah 33:3; Daniel 2:19–23; Matthew 10:26; Luke 8:17; John 8:32; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Ephesians 1:17–18; 2:10; James 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. The Holy Communion, The Collect, p. 67. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Divine Liturgy, Prayer before the Gospel, pp. 88–89; The Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified, p. 135. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraph 2116. https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM
- Bridge, James. “St. Lucy.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09414a.htm
- “Saint Lucy.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy
- “Psaume 129 : Pour obtenir la révélation des choses cachées.” Toutes les prières. https://www.touteslesprieres.com/priere-917-psaume-129-pour-obtenir-la-revelation-des-choses-cachees-attente-anxieuse-du-secours-de-dieu-dans-les-moments-d-angoisse.html
- “Psaume 130 (129) : Pour obtenir la révélation des choses cachées.” YouTube video and description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEDk9XzF_L8
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