Pray for Peace
At a website called Catholic Culture, I found a home liturgy for New Year's Day. On the site it said that many people have made it a tradition to pray for peace on New Year's Day. What a great idea! Here is one of the great prayers for peace. May it be ours today and all year long.

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 in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
—St. Francis of Assisi