Prayer for the New Year

O Heavenly Father, now that we have lived to see another year, we thank Thy goodness and Thy incomprehensible mercy, that, from the moment of our birth, we have escaped so many dangers which have threatened our health and life. Would that we had never abused the precious time of our life to sin! But, alas! it is done, and we therefore pray Thee, through Thy Son, and through the Precious Blood He shed in His circumcision, to look, not upon the multitude of our sins, but upon Thy infinite mercy. We promise to be henceforth pious, just, and virtuous. Strengthen us in our weakness. Increase in us faith, hope, and charity. Keep us, by Thy powerful grace, from all sin, dangers, temptations, and adversities of soul and body. Enable us, we beseech Thee, to offer up to Thee, from this day henceforth till the hour of our death, all our senses, thoughts, words, and deeds, to subject them all to Thy Holy Will, to oppose successfully every evil habit, and to practice every virtue. Grant, O Father, in the Name of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that we, living and dying in Thy only true faith, may enjoy in Thy kingdom, where one day is better than a thousand upon earth, an everlasting New Year of eternal happiness, and that we may praise Thee with all Thy angels and saints, forever and ever. Amen.