January 1, 2023

                                                

 

Mary, Mother of God Pray For Us  

Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, U.S.A. Region
Wish you and your Loved Ones,
A New Year full of Hope, Peace, Good Health
Love and New Life.
 
Join us to Reconcile our Yesterday

Bring Peace to our Today

And Say ‘Yes’ to an unknown Tomorrow

              A New Year Prayer

Let us praise the Lord of days and seasons and years, saying:
Glory to God in the highest!

And peace to all people on earth!

Our lives are made of days and nights, of seasons and years, for we are part of a universe of suns and moons and planets. We mark ends and we make beginnings and, in all we praise God for the graces and mercy that fill our days.

Reader      A reading from the book of Genesis 1:14-19

God said: “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the fixed times, the days and the years, and serve as luminaries in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth.” And so it happened: God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night; and he made the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw how good it was. Evening came, and morning followed—the fourth day

The Word of the Lord.             Thanks be to God.

Response   

May God have pity on us and bless us;

may he let his face shine upon us.

So may your way be known upon earth;

among all nations, your salvation.

May God bless us in mercy.

 

May the nations be glad and exult

because you rule the peoples in equity;

the nations on the earth you guide.

May God bless us in mercy.

May the peoples praise you, O God;

may all the peoples praise you!

May God bless us,

and may all the ends of the earth fear him!

R. May God bless us in mercy.

 Pause and offer prayers of thanksgiving for the past year

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 Pause and  offer prayers for the year to come

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In Oneness with all peoples let us pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi for peace throughout 2023.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.    AMEN.

      Blessing

May the Lord bless you and keep you!                       

May the Lord let his face shine upon

you, and be gracious to you!

May the Lord look upon you kindly and

give you peace!       AMEN.