DECEMBER 31TH SILVESTRO. Prayers for the last day of the year

PRAYER TO GOD THE FATHER

Do, we pray to you, Almighty God,

that the solemnity of your blessed confessor and Pontiff Silvestro

increase your devotion and assure us of salvation.

Amen.

PRAYERS FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR

O Almighty God, Lord of time and eternity,

I thank you because throughout the course of this year

you accompanied me with your grace

and you have filled me with your gifts and your love.

I want to express my adoration to you,

my praise and my thanks.

I humbly ask you for forgiveness, O Lord,

of the sins committed, of so many weaknesses and of so many miseries.

Accept my desire to love you more

and to faithfully do your will

for as long as you still give me life.

I offer you all my sufferings and good works which,

with your grace, I have accomplished.

Let them be useful, O Lord, for salvation

mine and all my loved ones. Amen.

Here we are, Lord, in front of you
after a long walk this year.
If we feel tired,
it's not because we have traveled a long way,
or we have covered who knows what endless ways.
It's because, unfortunately, many steps,
we consumed them on our paths, and not yours:
following the involved paths of our business stubbornness,
and not the indications of your Word;
relying on the success of our grueling maneuvers,
and not on the simple forms of confident abandonment in you.
Perhaps never, as in this twilight of the year,
we hear Peter's words ours:
"We struggled all night,
and we didn't take anything. "
Either way, we want to thank you equally.
Because, making us contemplate the poverty of the harvest,
help us understand that without you we can't do anything.

TE DEUM (Italian)

We praise you, God *
We proclaim you Lord.
O eternal Father, *
the whole earth adores You.

The angels sing to you *
and all the powers of heaven:

with the Cherubim and the Seraphim

they don't stop saying:

The heavens and the earth *
they are full of your glory.
The glorious choir of the Apostles applauds you *
and the white ranks of the martyrs;

the voices of the prophets come together in your praise; *
the Holy Church, wherever it proclaims your glory:

Father of infinite majesty;

O Christ, King of glory, *
eternal Son of the Father,
You were born of the Virgin Mother
for the salvation of man.

Winner of death, *
you have opened the kingdom of heaven to believers.
You sit at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father. *

We believe that

(The following verse is sung on one's knees)

Rescue your children, Lord, *
that you redeemed with your precious blood.
Receive us in your glory *
in the assembly of Saints.

Save your people, Lord, *
guide and protect your children.
Every day we bless you, *
we praise your name forever.

Worthy today, Lord, *
to guard us without sin.

Have mercy on us, Lord, *
have mercy.

You are our hope, *
we will not be confused forever.

V) We bless the Father, and the Son with the Holy Spirit.

A) Let us praise and glorify him over the centuries.

V) Blessed are you, O Lord, in the firmament of heaven.

R) Commendable and glorious and highly exalted over the centuries.