Prayer for the New Year

Spanish cross, needlepoint

Oh Thou, who art ever the same,
Grant us so to pass through
the coming year with faithful hearts,
that we may be able in all things
to please Thy loving eyes.

Amen.

Mozarabic, 700 A.D.

(Mozarab is the term for the Christian population living under Muslim rulers in

Al-Andalus in what is now Spain and Portugal)