PRAYER SERVICE- END OF THE YEAR

PRAYER SERVICE-END OF THE YEAR ANGELUS: Genuine humility is almost always a thrilling exaltation, God needed Mary of Nazareth's "Yes" in order to become incarnate and redeem. By her "Yes" Mary became Christ's Mother. Today God needs our "Yes" to all the failures, frustration, disappointments, trials and contradictions that clutter our way of life by accepting them as the will of God. Let us ask our Mother Mary to give us courage to say "Yes" at all times as we sing the Angelus from WJL hymn no. T-20. HOLY SPIRIT : Let us welcome the Holy Spirit by opening up our hearts to grow in the life of the Spirit. Let your response be "Come Holy Spirit" To fill our hearts with your Divine love...... To fill our hearts with your Divine courage.... To fill our hearts with your Divine light.... To make us more generous...... To assist us in our prayer..... To strengthen our unity... To make us grow in the new life.... To give us your peace.... To give us your love for discipline...... To give us your love for self-control...... To give us your grace of humility..... To give us your fruit of joy......... We shall continue to invoke the Holy Spirit as we sing "Pavitra Atma Aa". INTRODUCTION Today the last day of the year, we come together around the Alter to share with God and with each other our feelings about what has been and our hopes for what will be. First of all let us whisper a prayer of thanks to God for the gift of the year that is ending today. From His loving hands we have received the hours,days and months of the year. During this year God has offered us many graces through the events of our lives and through the people we live with and the people we meet. They are the ways in which God has come to us. It is they who have helped us to learn and to grow. So, as we offer our thanks to God our Father we can also express our gratitude to all the people who have been for us the presence and love of God in our live. THANKSGIVING Lord, we thank you for these 12 months of year. And specially we pray for all the joys and sorrows which we have experience during these 12 months.......... JANUARY- Loving Father, we thank you for this month of January which brought us a new beginning with a newness of life. Thank you for the gift of St. Paul whose feast we celebrate in this month. As we thank, we also pray for the disaster took place in this month. Hymn: New life, New life........ FEBRUARY: Lord we thank you for the gift of our Founder whose death anniversary we celebrate this month. Thank you for all the favours that we have receive through his intercessions. We are grateful to his missionary zeal which brought out our congregation. Lord we pray for all the disasters that took place during this month. Hymn: "Prem ki seva sabase badi...." MARCH: Lord we thank you for the gift of this month of March. We also thank you for the gift of Our Mother Mary where the angel appeared to her and gave the good news of salvation. We pray for all the disaster of this month. Hymn: "And Mary said Yes..." APRIL: Thank you Lord for this month where we celebrate your resurrection joyfully singing alleluia. Thank you for dispelling the darkness from our life and filling us with new light. Lord we pray for all the victims of manmade disasters. Hymn: I-4 (WJL) MAY: Thank you for this month which begins with the feast of St. Joseph the worker. Through the intersession of St. Joseph we pray for all the workers for their good health and protection. We also pray for all the victims this month who have lost their lives JUNE: Thank you Lord, for the gift of St. John the Baptist whose feast we celebrate this month, through his intercession we pray for all those who are involved in preaching the Good News. Lord anoint them with your Holy Spirit and grant them courage and strength to go forward zealously in bringing many more souls to you. We pray for all the victims this month. JULY: Thank you Lord for the gift of St. Joachim and St. Anne whose feast we celebrate this month. Through their intercession we pray for all our parents. Lord bless them and keep them always safe. We also pray for all those who have lost their parents and for the parents who have lost their children. Hymn: "I have another Mamma in heaven..." AUGUST: Almighty Father you brought freedom to our country. We pray for all the freedom fighters and all the martyrs of our country. Lord bless our county and all the political leaders that they may bring peace and harmony in our county. Hymn: 0-1 (WJL) SEPTEMBER: Thank you Lord for the gift of Mother Mary whose birthday we celebrate in this month along with this feast we also celebrate the girl child day. We pray for all the girls in the world specially for their protection. OCTOBER: Lord we thank you for the gift of this month which is dedicated to the Rosary. Enable us to develop devotion to the Rosary which is the weapon to fight against all evils. Hymn: "O Queen of the Holy Rosary..." NOVEMBER: Lord we remember all the saints and souls during this month. We thank you for the gift of all saints and we pray for all the soul. Hymn: R-9 (WJL) DECEMBER: Loving Father, we thank you for sending your begotten Son on this earth to save all humankind from sin. Loving Jesus, we rejoice at your birth and we share your love, peace and joy among us. Hymn: "Joy to the world .........." Thank you Father, Son and Spirit for all these 12 months where each one of us have experienced you in some way or the other and so at end of this year we give glory for everything. Accept our offering and make us a new beings as we enter into the new year.