If you feel like giving them their moneys worth ...
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the good fortune you bless upon this nation and your people assembled her. Grant us good fortune in this coming year and shower your thanks upon those who served the PRYCA this past year and guide those who will lead us in the coming year.
We pray to you for those on the perilous ocean that you will embrace them with your mighty protection and grant them success in all their rightful undertakings. Grant them in all hours of need to see that they have a God who remembers them, and grant them grace in the hour of danger to commit their souls into your hands. 0 Lord Jesus Christ, who can rebuke the storm and bring it to silence, and lay the roaring waves to rest, show them who call to you out of the deep that you hear their prayer and will save them. And finally bring us all to the only safe port.
Frail is our vessel, and the ocean is wide; but as in your mercy you have set our course. Steer the vessel of our life towards the everlasting shore of peace, and bring us at length to the quiet haven of our heart's desire, where you, 0 God, are blessed, and live and reign for ever and ever.
We ask that you bless that hands that prepare and serve this food and bless those who consume it. As we partake of this food let us remember The One who sacrificed for us so we would have eternal life. As we drink let us remember his blood which was shed for us, and as we eat let us remember his body which was broken for us. In your name we pray. Amen.
