Don’t Let Today or Any Day Pass without This Parting Prayer

Thanks be to God — and Simeon!

(Via Ibreviary)

Luke 2:29-32

Lord, + now you let your servant go in peace;
your word has been fulfilled:

my own eyes have seen the salvation
which you have prepared in the sight of every people:

a light to reveal you to the nations
and the glory of your people Israel.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.

Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.

(Links for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord.)