A Latin phrase meaning "century of centuries" or 10,000 years. It occurs most frequently in liturgy. Figuratively, it can be taken to mean "forever" or "for eternity".
Contexts:
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
From the official prayer of the Order of the Blessed Trinity. http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/AngelicTrisagion.htm
With one part of my mind I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down, in saecula saeculorum, upon the will of prostrate peoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts.
From George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/
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