All join hands for the final blessing.

Leader: 

Remember us, O God:
from age to age be our comforter.
You have given us the wonder of time,
blessings in days and nights, seasons and years.

Bless your children at the turning of the year
and fill the months ahead with the bright hope
that is ours in the coming of the Christ.

You are our God, living and reigning, forever and ever.
All:   Amen

Leader: 

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon; 
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console, 
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
All:  Amen

All do the sign of the cross as the leader says:

Leader:  Let us bless the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.

The blessing concludes with a the signing of a Christmas carol.