In this gift of a New Year,
as midnight chimes and calendars turn,
may every heart still wandering in night
be sought and found by Christ the Light.

May grace, unearned and fierce, break through,
shatter every chain they never knew,
and in that holy, sudden hour
awaken souls with heaven’s power.

May the lost be drawn, the blind behold,
the dead arise to streets of gold
within—born anew, remade, set free,
transformed forever, gloriously.

O Lord of mercy, hear this cry:
let 2026 multiply
the miracles of second birth,
and fill Your Church with heaven on earth.

Amen.