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Prayer to thank God for his blessings, humble yourself for your faults, and promise him a more faithful life

So another year of my life has just passed, and with what speed, oh my God! will the year that begins pass less quickly? Will I see the end of it, and will it not be the last of the years of a life so short and so fragile?
O infinitely good God, I come to thank you for the countless blessings that I have received from you during this year! What desires, what holy resolutions have you not inspired in me! How many times at the feet of the minister of your mercy have I not had the forgiveness of my faults! How many times at the foot of this altar have I received from you the most touching token of your love in fervent communion! How many times have you spoken to my heart! How many salutary opinions and touching exhortations have I not heard, in short, how many privileged graces, how many celestial favors has your liberal hand not showered on me! Be eternally blessed, O my God! May heaven and earth, Angels and men unite with me to praise the God of mercy who never ceases to fill a perhaps ungrateful and guilty child with his blessings. Have I not so far abused all your benefits? and if to your lost graces I still add my so numerous offenses, and to all the good that I have omitted to do, I add all the evil that I have done, what a subject for bitter reflections: But I take firm resolution at your feet, O my God! from now on, each of the days that you still grant me will find me more grateful and more faithful; as time and the world pass before my eyes, it is with a more generous and stronger love that I will attach myself to you alone, oh divine beauty which does not pass away! and each moment that brings me closer to your eternity will make my virtue more constant and my perseverance more worthy of eternal reward. So be it.

taken from the excellent Catholic blog : le-petit-sacristain.blogspot.com