Let It Be: sanctificetur, adveniat, fiat

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A third-person subjunctive means let it be or may it be.

How It Works

Latin	Form	English
sanctificetur nomen tuum	passive, third person singular	may your name be made holy
adveniat regnum tuum	active, third person singular	may your kingdom come
fiat voluntas tua	subjunctive of fio	may your will be done

The next request turns the other way. Ne nos inducas is ne with the second person of the subjunctive: do not lead us.

The same form appears in the Requiem prayer: lux perpetua luceat eis (may perpetual light shine on them).

The Mass and the Clementine Vulgate have adveniat. Some Vulgate texts read veniat, which means the same.

Sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Hallowed be your name.
Sanctificetur is the passive present subjunctive. The name receives the holiness.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Your kingdom come.
Adveniat is the present subjunctive of advenio, in the third person.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
Fiat is the subjunctive of fio. Sicut begins the comparison: as in heaven. Et in terra means also on earth.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.
And lead us not into temptation.
Ne with inducas is the negative request, in the second person.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
And let perpetual light shine on them.
From the Requiem prayer. Luceat is a third-person subjunctive wish.

Using the future for a request.
Fiet voluntas tua.
Fiat voluntas tua.
Fiet is correct Latin for a statement about the future: your will shall be done. The prayer is a request, so it uses the subjunctive fiat.

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Let It Be: sanctificetur, adveniat, fiatLevel 5

The Pater noster uses the third person of the subjunctive, some of it passive.

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