God, in his kindness, has granted you and me still to be alive at the start of this new year.

Each moment of this year will be a gift from God’s hand.  Every day he will be offering us his help to find salvation.

Soon enough, we will leave this world and face the reality of his judgement.

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Let us pray that every day God will check and restrain our tongues, so that our words never cause discord or strife.

May God screen and protect our eyes, so that they do not drink in vanities.

May our inmost soul be pure, and the folly of impurity find no place in us.

May moderation in food and drink wear down the body’s pride.

May we, in all things, put God first, and do only what is pleasing to him.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. 

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