Prayer for the New Year
“O Lord Jesus Christ, my Savior, who as eternal Son of God humbly came into this world, help my unbelief. May I grow in an ever richer and stronger faith in the mystery of Your Incarnation and the salvation that it brought. Free me from the skepticism and timidity of our times.
Send Your Holy Spirit on our world, on all those I know and care about. Give them a new and stronger faith. Ask Your heavenly Father, who has sent You, to draw them so that they may believe in You.
Accompany each one of us as the Good Shepherd and protect us from error, confusion, and unbelief. And help us to live our faith. If we indeed believe that You came as our brother into this world, then we must accept Your teachings and live according to them. We must love our neighbor as ourselves. We must reach out as You told us to in the parable of the Good Samaritan. We must teach more by what we do than by what we say. And may the example of a Christian life, even a moment of that life, be the cause of a growing faith in those who seem so lost in the darkness of unbelief.
Jesus, Good Shepherd of our souls, You came to save the world. We ask You to save it. You died for each individual soul. Implore Your heavenly Father so that He may draw each of us closer to You. Grant that as we live through the events of Your life each year, symbolically presented, we may experience more fully Your great love for us in becoming a human being. And may we return that love always with gratitude and awe. We pray to You, Christ our Lord. Amen.”
~Benedict Groeschel
Send Your Holy Spirit on our world, on all those I know and care about. Give them a new and stronger faith. Ask Your heavenly Father, who has sent You, to draw them so that they may believe in You.
Accompany each one of us as the Good Shepherd and protect us from error, confusion, and unbelief. And help us to live our faith. If we indeed believe that You came as our brother into this world, then we must accept Your teachings and live according to them. We must love our neighbor as ourselves. We must reach out as You told us to in the parable of the Good Samaritan. We must teach more by what we do than by what we say. And may the example of a Christian life, even a moment of that life, be the cause of a growing faith in those who seem so lost in the darkness of unbelief.
Jesus, Good Shepherd of our souls, You came to save the world. We ask You to save it. You died for each individual soul. Implore Your heavenly Father so that He may draw each of us closer to You. Grant that as we live through the events of Your life each year, symbolically presented, we may experience more fully Your great love for us in becoming a human being. And may we return that love always with gratitude and awe. We pray to You, Christ our Lord. Amen.”
~Benedict Groeschel
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