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Lord God of the solitary, / Look upon me in my loneliness. / Since I may not keep this Christmas in the home, / Send it into my heart.
Let not my sins cloud me in, / But shine through them with forgiveness in the face of the child Jesus. / Put me in loving remembrance of the lowly lodging in the stable of Bethlehem, / The sorrows of the blessed Mary, the poverty and exile of the Prince of Peace. / For His sake, give me a cheerful courage to endure my lot, / And an inward comfort to sweeten it.