A prayer on this New Year's Eve for the coming New Year.
from St. Ambrosia, the 4th century
We pray you, O Creator of everything,
at this hour preceding night,
that you be clement and watch over us.
Let dreams and phantoms of the night be scattered.
Keep us safe from our enemies and make us pure!
Jesu!! look on us when we fall;
One momentary glance of yours
Can from her guilt the soul recall
To tears of penitence divine.
Awake us from false sleep profound,
And through our senses pour your light;
Be your blest name the first we sound
At early morn, the last at night.
–from the hymn "At Cock-Crowing"
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