Merciful God, you are the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life.
As we reflect on Matt's life, make us deeply aware of the shortness and uncertainty of human life; and let your Holy Spirit lead us in holiness and righteousness all our days.
As we reflect on all your servants who have finished their course in your faith and fear, we pray that, encouraged by their examples, we also may be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
Raise us, we humbly pray, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness. Daily persuade our hearts to make choices from an eternal perspective.
In this way, when we also depart this life, we may have the testimony of a good conscience, the confidence of a certain faith, and the comfort of holy hope. And most of all, at the resurrection may we receive that blessing which your well-beloved Son shall then pronounce: "Come, you blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world."
Grant this, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.
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