Sunday School, November 23, 2023 Last Sunday after Pentecost, Christ the King C proper 29

 Sunday School, November 23, 2023  Last Sunday after Pentecost, Christ the King 

C proper 29

Theme:

How is Christ a King?

Did Jesus live in a palace?  Did he have a large army of soldiers?  No.

How is it that Jesus is a king and how is it that he has a kingdom?

Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within you.  He said it was among us.

What is so special about an invisible kingdom and an invisible king?

The kings of this earth are leaders who have power.  They can force people to obey them.

Jesus is the king of persuasion.  He wins our hearts.  He teaches us to things which are good for us.  He does not force us.  He allows us freedom to choose whether we want to be a part of his kingdom.

Jesus is not like any king that this world has ever had.

If it seems as though Jesus is a king without any power, just remember he had the power to come back to life again.  He had the power to reappear to his followers again and again.  He has the ability to be with us by the Holy Spirit and help us have power to be better people.

Christ is a king, a very different king than the other kings of this world.

The fact that Jesus has not been seen for 2000 years and yet he still remains followed and loved by more people than any other king or person on earth, shows us what a special king that Christ is.

Sermon

Bring two crosses, a crucifix and a Christus Rex

Use the sermon to speak about how we speak of Christ as a King after his resurrection.  After his resurrection, we understand the cross in a different way.

Text: 

  Today is the end of the longest church season.  What is the longest church season?  Pentecost.  If this week is the end of the Christian year, then that makes next Sunday, New Year’s Day.  And what do we call the first day in the Christian New Year?  The first Sunday of Advent.  So what Christian season comes after the season of Pentecost?  Advent.

  We have a special name for this Sunday, the last Sunday in the season of Pentecost.  It is called the Feast of Christ the King.

  And so today we want to think about how Christ is our King.

  We heard the reading from the Gospel today and we wonder how Christ can be our king.  The reading that we have listened to tells us about how Jesus died.  In fact, he died when the soldiers of the great Roman king, the Caesar put him on a cross.  And they put a sign on the top of the cross that was making fun of Jesus.  The sign said: Jesus, King of the Jews.  How can a person who dies this way be a king?

  Let me show you another cross.  This cross is called the cross of Christ the King.  Do you see that Jesus has on wonderful robes and he is wearing a crown?  This cross is different from the other cross.

  How did Jesus become Christ the King?  He became Christ the King, because he did the strongest thing that could ever be done; he came back to life and he promised that God could give us life after our deaths too.  That is a great thing.  And that is why Christ is our king.

  And since we know that Christ is our king and since we know that God is bigger and stronger than death, do you know what that means?  It means that we can live our lives without fear.  We can live our lives with joy, love and faith, because we know that Christ is our King who has been stronger than death.

  So today, let’s celebrate because Christ is our King.  Christ is stronger than death.  And we can live with joy and faith because Christ is our King.  Amen.

Intergenerational liturgy with Holy Eucharist

November 23, 2025: The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Feast of Christ the King

Gathering Songs: Majesty; Peace Before Us; Lord, Be Glorified; Lift High the Cross    

Liturgist: Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

People: And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and forever.  Amen.

Liturgist:  Oh God, Our hearts are open to you.

And you know us and we can hide nothing from you.

Prepare our hearts and our minds to love you and worship you.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Song: Majesty (Renew! # 63)

Majesty, worship his majesty.  Unto Jesus be all glory, honor and praise. 

Majesty, kingdom authority flow from his throne unto own; his anthem raise. 

So exalt, lift up on high the name of Jesus. 

Magnify, come, glorify Christ Jeus the King. 

Majesty, worship his majesty; Jesus who died, now glorified, King of all kings.

Liturgist:         The Lord be with you.

People:            And also with you.

Liturgist:  Let us pray

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Litany of Praise: Alleluia

O God, you are Great!  Alleluia

O God, you have made us! Alleluia

O God, you have made yourself known to us!  Alleluia

O God, you have provided us with us a Savior!  Alleluia

O God, you have given us a Christian family!  Alleluia

O God, you have forgiven our sins!  Alleluia

O God, you brought your Son Jesus back from the dead!  Alleluia

A reading from the Letter of Paul to the Colossians

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-- all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Liturgist: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God

Liturgist: Let us read together from Psalm 46

Come now and look upon the works of the LORD, * what awesome things he has done on earth.

It is he who makes war to cease in all the world; * he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear,
and burns the shields with fire.

"Be still, then, and know that I am God; * I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth."

Litany Phrase: Thanks be to God!

Litanist:

For the good earth, for our food and clothing. Thanks be to God!

For our families and friends. Thanks be to God!

For the talents and gifts that you have given to us. Thanks be to God!

For this day of worship. Thanks be to God!

For health and for a good night’s sleep. Thanks be to God!

For work and for play. Thanks be to God!

For teaching and for learning. Thanks be to God!

For the happy events of our lives. Thanks be to God!

For the celebration of the birthdays and anniversaries of our friends and parish family.

   Thanks be to God!

Liturgist:         The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke

People:            Glory to you, Lord Christ.

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothing. The people stood by, watching Jesus on the cross; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!" The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews." One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

Liturgist:         The Gospel of the Lord.

People:            Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Sermon – 

Children’s Creed

We did not make ourselves, so we believe that God the Father is the maker of the world.

Since God is so great and we are so small,

We believe God came into our world and was born as Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary.

We need God’s help and we believe that God saved us by the life, death and

     resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We believe that God is present with us now as the Holy Spirit.

We believe that we are baptized into God’s family the Church where everyone is

     welcome.

We believe that Christ is kind and fair.

We believe that we have a future in knowing Jesus Christ.

And since we all must die, we believe that God will preserve us forever.  Amen.

 Litany Phrase: Christ, have mercy.

For fighting and war to cease in our world. Christ, have mercy.

For peace on earth and good will towards all. Christ, have mercy.

For the safety of all who travel. Christ, have mercy.

For jobs for all who need them. Christ, have mercy.

For care of those who are growing old. Christ, have mercy.

For the safety, health and nutrition of all the children in our world. Christ, have mercy.

For the well-being of our families and friends. Christ, have mercy.

For the good health of those we know to be ill. Christ, have mercy.

For the remembrance of those who have died. Christ, have mercy.

For the forgiveness of all of our sins. Christ, have mercy.

Youth Liturgist:          The Peace of the Lord be always with you.

People:                        And also with you.

Song during the preparation of the Altar and the receiving of an offering

Song: Peace Before Us (Wonder, Love and Praise, # 791)

1-Peace before us, peace behind us, peace under our feet.  Peace within us, peace over us.  Let all around us be peace.

2-Love  3-Light   4-Christ

Doxology

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below.

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Prologue to the Eucharist

Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, for to them belong the kingdom of God.”

All become members of a family by birth or adoption.

Baptism is a celebration of birth into the family of God.

A family meal gathers and sustains each human family.

The Holy Eucharist is the special meal that Jesus gave to his friends to keep us together as the family of Christ.

The Lord be with you

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts

We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to God.

It is right to give God thanks and praise.

It is very good and right to give thanks, because God made us, Jesus redeemed us and the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts.  Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all of the world that we see and don’t see, we forever sing this hymn of praise:

Holy, Holy, Holy (Intoned)

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Power and Might.  Heav’n and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 

Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the Highest.

(All may gather around the altar)

 Our grateful praise we offer to you God, our Creator;

You have made us in your image

And you gave us many men and women of faith to help us to live by faith:

Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachael.

And then you gave us your Son, Jesus, born of Mary, nurtured by Joseph

And he called us to be sons and daughters of God.

Your Son called us to live better lives and he gave us this Holy Meal so that when we eat

  the bread and drink the wine, we can  know that the Presence of Christ is as near to us as  

  this food and drink  that becomes a part of us.

And so, Father, we bring you these gifts of bread and wine. Bless and sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be for your people the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.  Bless and sanctify us by your Holy Spirit that we may love God and our neighbor.

On the night when Jesus was betrayed he took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends, and said, "Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me."

After supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, gave thanks, and said, "Drink this, all of you. This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me."

Father, we now celebrate the memorial of your Son. When we eat this holy Meal of Bread and Wine, we are telling the entire world about the life, death and resurrection of Christ and that his presence will be with us in our future.

Let this holy meal keep us together as friends who share a special relationship because of your Son Jesus Christ.  May we forever live with praise to God to whom we belong as sons and daughters.

By Christ, and with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory

 is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN.

And now as our Savior Christ has taught us, we now sing,

Our Father: (Renew # 180, West Indian Lord’s Prayer)

Our Father who art in heaven:  Hallowed be thy name.

Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done: Hallowed be thy name.

Done on earth as it is in heaven: Hallowed be thy name.

Give us this day our daily bread: Hallowed be thy name.

And forgive us all our debts: Hallowed be thy name.

As we forgive our debtors: Hallowed be thy name.

Lead us not into temptation: Hallowed be thy name.

But deliver us from evil: Hallowed be thy name.

Thine is the kingdom, power, and glory: Hallowed be thy name.

Forever and ever: Hallowed be thy name.

Amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.

Amen, amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.

Breaking of the Bread

Celebrant:       Alleluia, Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

People:            Therefore let us keep the feast.  Alleluia.

Words of Administration

Communion Song:  Lord, Be Glorified (Renew! # 172)

In our lives, Lord, be glorified, be glorified, in our lives, Lord, be glorified today.

In our homes, Lord, be glorified, be glorified, in our homes, Lord, be glorified today.

In your church, Lord, be glorified, be glorified, in your church, Lord, be glorified today.

In your world, Lord, be glorified, be glorified, in your world, Lord be glorified today. 

Post-Communion Prayer

Everlasting God, we have gathered for the meal that Jesus asked us to keep;

We have remembered his words of blessing on the bread and the wine.

And His Presence has been known to us.

We have remembered that we are sons and daughters of God and brothers

    and sisters in Christ.

Send us forth now into our everyday lives remembering that the blessing in the

     bread and wine spreads into each time, place and person in our lives,

As we are ever blessed by you, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Closing Song: Lift High the Cross (Renew! # 297)

Refrain: Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim ‘till all the world adore his sacred name.

Come, Christians, follow where our savior trod, our King victorious, Christ, the Son of God.  Refrain

All newborn servants of the crucified bear on their brows the seal of him who died.  Refrain

Dismissal:   

Liturgist: Let us go forth in the Name of Christ.

People: Thanks be to God! 

  

 

Prayers for Pentecost, 2025

Monday in 23 Pentecost, November 17, 2025

God, we have inherited a metaphor tradition of kingship to speak about your unique designated person deriving from the practice of the perception of a divine choice for a person to lead people; help us to live with irony of Jesus as the kingly one who suffered and died but who was revealed as the designated inner rising of the Christ as the realized image of God on each person.  Amen.

Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost, November 16, 2025

God, who is not human except in the ways that we humanly appropriate you, we use language as the only way to refer to that which is not language and to the mysterious non-language stuff within us we designate your image upon us; we thank you for the mysterious image upon us which allows us the creative imaginations to be known in language aftermath as we are formed by language events and are forming with language products our contributions to the future.  Let our contributions be graceful products of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 22 Pentecost, November 15, 2025

God, whose most accurate name might be Hope; we continue to go on after everything that has happened and when poignant endings occur, everything still goes on and there is enough of positive experience to confess that the future is not some environmental prison of existence but a new classroom of opportunity toward what can be better, in significant ways.  Give us wisdom to find betterment in significant ways.  Amen.

Friday in 22 Pentecost, November 14, 2025

God, we waver in our belief of your irresistibility and winsomeness to all peoples living and dead, and to the full extent of our often resisting hearts and we wonder how what is evil can ever be reconciled as some future divine alchemist's gold of the lead of what seem unredeemable; give us hope in the possibility of transformation without diminishing the real hurt of the pain of this world caused by our evil and if all manner of things be well, indeed, let us not forget the memorial scars.  Amen.

 Thursday in 22 Pentecost, November 13, 2025

O God, how can we believe in an end of things when you are everlasting and the fullness which fills all things?  Give us hope as we encounter transitional thresholds when states of becoming change and require us to adjust our cherished attachments to people and things who have been regarded as gifts to us, and when we do not know certainly if ourselves will continue to be cherishing people always in the latest state of becoming.  Give us hope in living with the flux of life.  Amen.

Wednesday in 22 Pentecost, November 12, 2025

O God who so loved the world, Deliver us from the kind of apocalyptic fatalism which does not conform to the love of creation expressed in loving stewardship of the gift of life in its manifold forms, with love for each person as we activity call forth the benefits of the divine image upon us.  Amen.

Tuesday in 22 Pentecost, November 11, 2025 (Veterans Day in the U.S.A.)

O God of peace, would that we could make soldiering but our constant spiritual battle against the evils which infect the lives of people before they break into the open warfare which happen when charity greatly fails among the people of this world; forgive us for needing soldiers but give our soldiers wise leaders who prize justice for all and war as a last resort for protecting the vulnerable.  Amen.

Monday in 22 Pentecost, November 10, 2025

Everlasting God, we cannot imagine a future where everyone and everything is burnt to invisible states of existence even while we understand death and great catastrophes as poignant attention getting transitions to get us to ponder the awesome mysteries of futures to challenge us to live a better present.  Give us wisdom to live hope's probabilities well.  Amen.

Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost, November 9, 2025

God of the living, such living must be inclusive of all the phases of change including the change event we call death; give us the hope of your living fullness which can preserve our identities through all transitions.  Amen.

Saturday in 21 Pentecost, November 8, 2025

Everlasting God, give us courage to make ourselves objectively immortal in the legacy which we leave towards love and justice having a better future in our aftermath, rather than to worry about our subjective immortality in our afterlife state, trusting your preserving ability more than our imaginations of what we might be.  Amen.

Friday in 21 Pentecost, November 7, 2025

God of seemingly too much diversity manifested in the diverse circumstances which constitute the many different people in our world; give us wisdom to find the kind of justice which can balance dignity to each through mutual admiration which allows us to find respectful ways of effective co-existence.  Amen.

Thursday in 21 Pentecost, November 6, 2025

God who includes the accumulation of all that has been; give us to live at the end of the chain of happenings in our very local places, the ability to synthesize what has happened with wisdom to guide the birth of what can be new in the causes of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 21 Pentecost, November 5, 2025

God of resurrection and reconciliation, let not resurrection be an excuse for us to delay the attaining of as much justice for as many people as possible in the lives of those who now live.  Amen.

Tuesday in 21 Pentecost, November 4, 2025

God of comfort, images of being pain free provide us with parallel comfort during times of distress for us personally and for manifold communal distress; let such images be but the reminder of the normalcy of health and impetus for us to seek our personal health as well as the general welfare of all people.  Amen.

All Souls' Day, (translated from Sunday) November 3, 2025

God of the Living, those who have been cannot not be erased from having been, even if forgotten by the surviving communities; keep us thankful in remembrance of the blessed contributions of our forebears and give us grace to pass on to the future the good things which they gave us.  Amen.

The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, November 2, 2025

God, who have been during what is and what has been, we cannot remove ourselves from the environment of people and places of our location; give us filtering wisdom to tap the beneficial influences present in our lives and the courage to censor the harmful effects which do not support love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday, All Saints' Day, November 1, 2025

God, you have given us a constituting cloud of witnesses in the heroes of our supreme human values of active love and justice; give us emulating power to forge their examples into novel events of applied goodness in the deeds of our lives today.  Amen.

 Friday in 20 Pentecost, October 31, 2025 (All Hallows Eve)

God, the mysterious Preserver, Time is the great continuous switch between before and after and the most profound switch is the event of death; as Time does not stop for the death of anyone, give us grace to continue to live faithfully on the foundational traces of all whom we have lost, and let their support be an inspiration for us to work toward the tasks of justice yet unfinished.  Amen.

Thursday in 20 Pentecost, October 30, 2025

God who has blessed us with exemplars of good living and who encourage us to allow the Christ-nature to rise within us to become exemplars of transformed lives; give us hope for the continual transformation of ourselves and all people holding onto the superior image of the divine which is found within all.  Amen.

Wednesday in 20 Pentecost, October 29, 2025

God who has made us in your identity that we have come to know as our Christ identity; give us grace and courage to live the best version of this identity through the practice of love and justice, so that those unaware of their high identity might find the projection of the same on us in our example of life.  Amen.

Tuesday in 20 Pentecost, October 28, 2025

O God of all, even as we try to use the holy writings to limit access to you along the lines of our affinities we are confronted with people who need to be loved as they are in situations and identities unfamiliar to us; give us stretching hearts toward your own largesse to comprehend the great diversity of the people in our world and as we are trying to find our place in your greatness let us be willing to let others find their place in the greatness that is not carte blanche for all human behaviors but subject to the formation energies of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 20 Pentecost, October 27, 2025

Teach us O God of Justice, where we can make reasonable reparation to the victims of our injustice even if we have to take responsibility for things that people did who are the heritage of our resulting advantageous current life benefits; and give us wisdom to not burden the people of our future with future victims needing reparation.  Amen.

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 26, 2025

Jesus, teacher and unique Child of the God of Love; give us the evidence of loving behaviors as we offer mercy to all not to excuse what we do wrong but for a luring tolerance for us to rise to be better today than yesterday.  Amen.

Saturday in 19 Pentecost, October 25, 2025

Keep us O Perfect God, on the road of our own progressive and relative perfectibility; and let us not have contempt but mercy for those who are at a different place on the same road, and let the quest itself be a rebuke for those who refuse the path of self-surpassability.  Amen.

Friday in 19 Pentecost, October 24, 2025

God, the Name we give for what is most inclusive and expansive for naming what is outside language but vulnerable to being named because of our imprisonment within language; from beyond language inspire within the language products of our lives of body language ethics, writing, and speech outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 19 Pentecost, October 23, 2025

Eternal Word of God, we can only know ourselves through the internalized stories which define our existence within the contexts of our lives; help us to identify the unhealthy stories which constitute us toward injustice and unloving behaviors, and give us creative insights to become playwrights of love and justice and follow through actors of the same.  Amen.

Wednesday in 19 Pentecost, October 22, 2025

God of Creative Process, everything is passing away and in the flux of varying states with the state of death being the pronounced and poignant state of the human loss of life; do we live our lives as continuous dying proclamations of our preparation for our unknown last day or do we lives our lives with full throttle live forever optimism? Whatever the mood of our metaphor O God, give us grace to cherish life in the now.  Amen.

Tuesday in 19 Pentecost, October 21, 2025

God of what is Always Already, we live in this Always Already with but minuscule filtered perception of our very limited environment within such grand plenitude; let us with our limited awareness have proportional wisdom to speak and act in ways most adequate to what applied justice and love can mean in our situations today.  Amen.

 Monday in 19 Pentecost, October 20, 2025

O God, because we are possessed with language and cannot but help to categorize and judge; give us the wisdom of humble judging assessments, particularly of others and let us not make our own life the final standard for judging the adequacy of anyone's life but let us all encourage each other on the path of continual perfectibility.  Amen.

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 19, 2025

God of justice, make us holy naggers for justice in our world as justice is the most non-selfish selfishness of all because when we ask for and practice justice for all, we are doing the best self-serving act of all; let justice be the ideal social leveler in our communities today.  Amen.

Saturday in 18 Pentecost, October 18, 2025

Challenge us O God of Unconditional Agape Love, when our practice of love is less than the required inclusive justice practices of our liberal societies; grant that we be first in justice rather than those who have to catch up our practice to match even those who say they don't believe in you.  Amen.

Friday in 18 Pentecost, October 17, 2025

God of Guidance, we are faced with many possible paths today, some more accessible, some which require us to go out of our way, and we are faced with the motives for our travel schedule; give us pre-travel insights which will serve the causes of love and justice even as we do the at hand self maintenance tasks of our lives.  Amen.

Thursday in 18 Pentecost, October 16, 2025

God of All, and of all peoples of the earth, we are confronted by too much knowledge and too much difference and we react by thinking to form groups not only to protect but to accumulate more controlling agency for our interests in the world; give us wisdom to negotiate all the differences among people which confront us today and let us find paths of communal distributive common good justice which also valorizes the inventive contribution of individual gifted differences.  Amen.

Wednesday in 18 Pentecost, October 15, 2025

God, who is the All and who is claimed as the protector and advocate for humans who oppose each other and even harm each other; how can we be delivered from such either/or simplicities which pit us against each other for divine reason and learn the wisdom of both/and harmonious living with enough for all?  Give all people the sense of being with all people today.  Amen.

Tuesday in 18 Pentecost, October 14, 2025

Who can count, O God, the number of written, oral, and invisible cries of holy nagging invocations to you, that we offer in abundance from our terribly provincial and even self-centered perspectives?  How do you collect the energies of prayers even when so many requests are the contradictions of seeming opponents?  Help us O, God live with the consequences of the freedom of probable outcomes and give us empathy to seek more for the other than ourselves.  Amen.

Monday in 18 Pentecost, October 13, 2025 (Indigenous People's Day, USA)

God, we have been raised with the primordial ideal of One Humanity and One Earth belonging to all in just proportions and yet we find ourselves with a long history of endless invasions creating invaders and conquered peoples and lands; let not the heirs of conquerors be neither proud of nor denying of the cruel cost to the descendants from whom land and life has been taken and give us the grace and wisdom to seek inventive justice and reparation for all to know the blessing of belonging on one's land.  Amen.

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 12, 2025

God who is All, who deluges us with the Plenitude of so much that we can but limit our focus while living in the overwhelming; give us wisdom to focus and build pockets of social love and justice in the care for as many people who inhabit this earth as but a small location within all. Amen.

Saturday in 17 Pentecost, October 11, 2025

God, the one who tolerates all seeming consequences of freedom, give us grace to negotiate the free conditions with the wisdom of enlighten choices for the common good, and when free conditions overwhelm us with affliction give us the strength of adaptable courage to survive and prevail.  Amen.

Friday in 17 Pentecost, October 10, 2025

God of All, who is All and in All, such inclusive Being must be definitive of what is healthy; grant to people of community the grace and willingness to include all so that the unhealthiness of shunning might be overcome.  Amen.

Thursday in 17 Pentecost, October 9, 2026

God, whose salvation means holistic health; let the human community prove its healthiness by being people who seek to include the sick and the afflicted with universal health care available to all as a witness to Christ who was given to us as the gate to being continuously invited into a community of health.  Amen.

Wednesday in 17 Pentecost, October 8, 2025

God beyond words, you appear as an emanation in declaring your equal as the eternal Word, the Logos from the beginning; give us tightrope walking ability in the experiential space between Word and Beyond words as a mysterious Sublime to humble us as lost in All.  Amen.

Tuesday in 17 Pentecost, October 7, 2025

God, we are taught to understand you as the complete personal milieu which is a disciplinary environment given to train in ideal situational linguistic efficacy, as we learn to know what to best do or say wherever we are; give us and make us examples of the wisdom of linguistic situational efficacy today in the ways of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 17 Pentecost, October 6, 2025

God, you provided the witness of Jesus to show us that faith is our wellness, as the gift of living winsomely with whatever may befall us because we have the hope of future surpassability of life being overtaken by the More Life of the always future.  Amen.

Seventeen Sunday after Pentecost, October 5, 2025

God over all the field of what is; each of us has but a limited awareness of what is in our lives; give us wisdom in the selection of what we use within our knowledge field and give us courage to face what we do not choose yet still arises to confront us.  Amen.

Saturday in 16 Pentecost, October 4, 2025

God you are vision of the love and the justice before us which has not been nor seems to be evident in actual human experience; let us not regard the visions of love and justice as cruel taunts about what we can never be, but the direction in which we continually need to surpass ourselves.  Amen.

Friday in 16 Pentecost, October 3, 2025

God over the field of probabilities, it sometimes seems as though the lure of the divine connective power does not result in the specific care for many people in our world; please forgive us for not getting the divine message of the lure of love and justice which characterized you as being essential of anyone we deem the greatest.  Amen.

Thursday in 16 Pentecost, October 2, 2025

God of peace, deliver us from the few powerful ones who believe that it is acceptable to invade and oppress people and our environment for their singular benefit while the vast majority experience the fallout of their selfish abuse of our world.  We pray that you as the Ultimate milieu would exercise some internal self correction to the wayward ways the oppressive tyrants of our world.  Amen.

Wednesday in 16 Pentecost, October 1, 2025

Deliver us O God from the dishonesty which is used to call true things lies, and falsehoods truth particularly when it becomes widespread among people for the harm of people who do not have the power or influence to defend themselves.  Amen.

Tuesday in 16 Pentecost, September 30, 2025

Give us heroic faith when we need it O God, but give us wisdom to train for such by daily acts of basic self control, the kind where we deny ourselves to make room for other people who need the benefits of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 16 Pentecost, September 29, 2025

Teach us O God, the inherent value and built in reward of doing what is kind, good, and just, and free us from being motivated by the fear of future punishment or the anticipation of future pay off, save the addition of an act which adds to a character which will tend toward loving goodness and mercy in future acts.  Amen.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 28, 2025

God who remains in our afterlife because you are the All which was before our lives; give us wisdom to value this life enough so as to complete the deeds of love and justice in this life before we leave and so prepare the example for others to follow in the future.  Amen.

Saturday in 15 Pentecost, September 27, 2025

Everlasting God, let us not use the hope of justice, reparation, and reconciliation in the afterlife keep us from doing all in our power to make these requirements of love evident in the words and deeds of our lives while we live.  Let us not be content to leave all justice to an afterlife.  Amen.

Friday in 15 Pentecost, September 26, 2025

Eternal Word, given the various linguistic contexts which are evident in the peoples of this earth, give us interpretive wisdom of how our lives become manifest in our language products of speech, writing, and body language deeds, and let these products be aimed at justice and love for the people in our lives.  Amen.

Thursday in 15 Pentecost, September 25, 2025

Everlasting God, who represents the reality of the totality of life before us and life after us; you give us visualizations of the afterlife to remind us about the absoluteness of our past life in the formation of the character of who we become before we die; keep us humbly on the path of surpassing ourselves in excellence as long as we live.  Amen.

Wednesday in 15 Pentecost, September 24, 2025

Everlasting God, we thank you for visualizations of the afterlife which reinforce our hope for the triumph of justice and the reparation and reconciliation of all that has been; but give us courage to live in a way that guarantees a better after-our-lives for the world of the visible who can be helped or harmed by how we live now.  Amen.

Tuesday in 15 Pentecost, September 23, 2025

Eternal Word of God, you as Language itself are the internal invisible organization and structuration of things; give us grace to appropriate language, language products, and language traditions in ways which illuminate the meaningful diversity of our lives as both empirical practical statistically driven people with soulful penchant for the artistic which co-inheres as the mysterious which inhabits what we think is evident.  Amen.

Monday in 15 Pentecost, September 22, 2025

God, who was before we were and who will be after we are as we know ourselves in our living states; grant us wise stewardship of life as we know it now and faith to leave to you the afterlives which we do not know.  Amen.

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 21, 2025

God the mystery of origination of all that is and that was called good and thus is wealth as the collectivity of all that has come to known as being; you have entrusted us with stewardship of the humanly accessible portions of this great wealth and we have failed to use it in the most just way for the equal sustenance of all the people of the earth.  Give us grace to correct our greedy behaviors so that all might be included in the great wealth of our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 14 Pentecost, September 20, 2025

God whose immensity includes the treasure of everything, give us wisdom to treasure everything in our lives in right ways so that we and all people might learn to value the continual pursuit of what is best for all people in their various situations.  Amen.

Friday in 14 Pentecost, September 19, 2025

God of abundance, how might the people of the world be convinced that to whom much is given, much is required? Let us be persuaded and persuade others that having gifts in life is communal and for the purpose of sharing so that the harmony of social and economic reciprocity might be attained for the common good.  Amen.

Thursday in 14 Pentecost, September 18, 2025

God, our supreme value, you encourage us to seek the higher values, the inward and heavenly treasures of the virtues which make for the kind of character which we need to live a good life and to actively promote a good life for the the common good.  Free us from diminishing the values of the virtues by letting our desires make idols out of virtueless objects of wealth.  Amen.

Wednesday in 14 Pentecost, September 17, 2025

God who is Wealth and Value Itself; forgive us when we try to elevate lesser wealths to the status of being worthy of worship and fall into a greed which prevents us from attaining the stewardship of care for all the peoples of the world.  Help us to treasure You enough to learn the generosity of sharing for all to have enough.  Amen.

Tuesday in 14 Pentecost, September 16, 2025

Gracious God of freedom, in a world where it seems more obvious to act in selfish greed for one's own well-being give us grace to transform the energy which drives greed into the power of generosity to share so that all can have enough.  Amen.

Monday in 14 Pentecost, September 15, 2025 (Holy Cross commemoration day)

Resurrected Christ, the image of your victory and the hope of a better afterlife does not negate the reality of the suffering in our world; let the Cross of Jesus be a constant reminder for us of God being weak to the real freedom in this world even the allowance of the perfect and innocent to suffer and die; but let not the freedom to do evil conquer the freedom to do good as we faithfully commit our efforts to bend the arc of history toward justice.  Amen.

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 14, 2025

Eternal Word of God, word through language is the invisible essence of human life and the bearer of the traces of the memory of the past; give us honesty in how we interpret the traces of life and give us humility to continually know that we need to do better in leaving traces of love and justice for building a better future.  Amen.

Saturday in 13 Pentecost, September 13, 2025

God you are the uniquely great One who includes all; you avoid the loneliness of such uniqueness by beholding all within you; delivers us who are each uniquely individual through our regard and connection with all in the divine milieu and let the experience conducted between our individual uniqueness and all other beings be the adequate occasions for the the survival conditions of riding the surf of change towards futures with surpassing excellence for the common good.  Amen.

Friday in 13 Pentecost, September 12, 2025

Divine Parent, who wants us to belong; we find in our world many people who do not have the experience of being cared for because they are valued; you sent to us Jesus as a seeker for those who were undervalued and lost without the basic adequate care for human dignity; give us the grace of Jesus to become seeker and responders to those who have not known the valuing care of others.  Amen.

Thursday in 13 Pentecost, September 11, 2025

Eternal Word of God, the Language Complex of Reality, and the very condition for the arising of all language products; as the amount of word products increase exponentially, give us tenacity to hold on to the values of love and justice as the values worthy to retain their right of perpetual manifestation through our words and deeds.  Amen.

Wednesday in 13 Pentecost, September 10, 2025

God, you are the evidence and the name for altogetherness of beings in time; we are tempted by our temporal and spatial provincialism to limit you to but our local totemic symbol; give us no shame about our limited local identities, but give us willingness to have our boundary of perception include many two way doors of respectful interchange with others not in our time or place.  Amen.

Tuesday in 13 Pentecost, September 9, 2025

Lord Jesus Christ, you presented God as the great seeker of the lost; let us hold as the central ethic of the universe valuing love which lets everyone know that each belongs to the great family and give us courage to instantiate such valuing love of others in our words and deeds.  Amen.

Monday in 13 Pentecost, September 8, 2025

God of the lost people who have not had and do not have caring interested mentors who structures programs of well-being for their progress in wellness; inspire sensitive finder people who have wise hearts to rescue and care for those baffled by their disorientation bereft of directional signs for their own care.  Amen.

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 7, 2025

Eternal Word of God, among all the words which pre-code our lives and which run continuously within us paralleling our outer life; we highlight with deliberateness words of gratitude and love for Life itself, for being greater than any one particular experience of it that we might have at any time in our lives.  Amen.

Saturday in 12 Pentecost, September 6, 2026

God of all accumulated Becoming; enlighten and highlight for us traces of what has been to provide us wise ability for acting in love and justice for the common good of the world.  Amen.

Friday in 12 Pentecost, September 5, 2025

God of Love, the future of better love and better loving, can make the previous attempts at love seem as love's opposite; keep us ever active in the call to love better and let us not get dwell on past successes or failures at love as we seek to surpass ourselves in the great future of love.  Amen.

Thursday in 12 Pentecost, September 4, 2025

God, the parent of all, you have called us to a greater family than the families of our birth and you have send Jesus to inspire us to live with love beyond the interest of our own families; give us courage to embrace as primary the God who is parent of all and deliver us from the family pride which prevents the love of all God's children.  Amen.

Wednesday in 12 Pentecost, September 3, 2025

Everlasting God, sometimes like Jesus, it seems to us that the conditions in life for so many are so horrible that an ending would be preferred and visualized as imminent as a way of present time comfort; but seeing the life only ends for individuals when they die, let us who live work with courage to promote the love and justice of all so that the blessing of God's image upon us might be fulfilled.  Amen.

Tuesday in 12 Pentecost, September 2, 2025

God of life and becoming, you require us to embrace the death of what is passed and leave the unreality of nostalgia for the current task of building better surpassing situations of love and justice; while the image of hating the images that we have built about others and events of the past seems severe, especially if they are cosy places where we want to forever reside, let the moment and the future reflect the willingness to leave the what has been for the what will yet be.  Amen.

Monday in 12 Pentecost, September 1, 2025. (Labor Day, USA)

God of calling and vocation; in the diversity of the world there are many tasks which need to be fulfilled for the ordered functions of community life; give us wisdom to affirm the manifold callings present in our world with appreciation for the necessary contributions of all for the common good and let our appreciation be proven with sustaining wages and provision for each worker in our world.  Amen.

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 31, 2025

God of many graceful presences in our lives; we need those presences in apparent ways to balance and counter the apparent presence of harm and threat which give rise to fear and anxiety; would that the balance of graceful presences be tipped in favor of peace, love, and justice for all people in this world.  Amen.

Saturday in 11 Pentecost, August 30, 2025

Eternal Word of God, all of existence is communicated in the vastness of a large language model, such that we can get lost without informational paths within the maze of possible knowledge; give us the needed directional finders in this maze which leads us in the way of love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 11 Pentecost, August 29, 2024

God, who is all and in all, your vastness means that many meanings of you get distilled into many potential sublime experience with every turning over of a rock of human experience being a potential serendipitous encounter with how you mark our existence with a sense of MORENESS.  Give us humility to live in the continuous MORENESS of the divine.  Amen.

Thursday in 11 Pentecost, August 28, 2025

God of love, you call us to mutual love and when love abilities vary, you call for advanced lovers to winsomely coax others to better love by modeling the kind of love which continually calls others to their better angels.  Give us grace to model winsome love today.  Amen.

Wednesday in 11 Pentecost, August 27, 2025 (Day of the death by a gunman of two young students attending Mass at their parish church in Minneapolis)

God, even the proverbial angels charged to protect children cannot prevail against disordered and angry minds of people who have easy access to guns in a country that protects more the right to kill than the right to have safe protection based upon laws of safety for the common good; comfort those who grieve the loss of dear ones whose future is now in their afterlives and bring righteous indignation to insightful and wise actions to value the lives of our children through protective laws.  Amen.

Tuesday in 11 Pentecost, August 26, 2025

God, we often want to take the seats of privilege thinking that we can gain merit by associating with important people; give us the love to associate with those who are least among us in social privilege as a way of knowing that we are truly associating with the Christ who is God hidden in the poor.  Amen.

Monday in 11 Pentecost, August 25, 2025

God, whom we understand to be emptied into mere human perceptive forms; give us divine humility not to be motivated by seeking association with people who we deem will promote our image and access to power, privilege, wealth, and fame; rather give us the humility of relying on performance merit even if we never get recognized because of our persuasion about goodness being its own reward.  Amen.

 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 24, 2025

God of Sabbath rest, teach us to honor rest in our lives but let us not place rules of how and when we rest at odds with the prayers of oblations of doing the work of health and healing whenever we see the emergency needs of people.  Amen.

Saturday in 10 Pentecost, August 23, 2025

God of creative process, let our progressive becoming result in concrescences of established character which inspire us to keep becoming toward higher ideals of love and justice; and let us not declare any moment of character as the final product of our life.  Amen.

Friday in 10 Pentecost, August 22, 2025

God, you are the expanding MORE humbling any proclamation about final adequacy for all the problems of our lives; let not our sense of littleness paralyze us from acting without our given arenas to pursue what might be more adequate events of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 10 Pentecost, August 21, 2025

God, whose laws can not just be statically correspondent to single periods or events in time; give us laws which can be wisely adapted to changes in what is truly just for the gifts of human being who manifest significant deep identities which need to be honored with dignity.  Amen.

Wednesday in 10 Pentecost, August 20, 2025

God who gives us laws for ritual and redundant living so as to build good grooves of character in our lives; let not such rituals become so fixed as to blind us from exigent needs which arise and interrupt our schedules.  Let our laws of repetition include openness for the interruption of unplanned and arising needs.  Amen.

Tuesday in 10 Pentecost, August 19, 2025

God who inspires laws for the peaceful order of society; give us openness in our legal thinking to allow for the unique responses required to arising but unplanned situations of human need; deliver us from legalism which is based upon the pride of the performance of rules which are divorced from the actual care of people in their need.  Amen.

Monday in 10 Pentecost, August 18, 2025

God of Order, we are inspired to discover order and to devise rules for best living even though we know that the Order of Freedom results in happenings beyond our control or planning; give us the wisdom of knowing how to make humane exceptions to our rules when the care of the members of the human family require it.  Amen.

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 17, 2025

God of Peace, your deep peace reside within a changing world of restless surface waves which at time manifest calm sereneness only to be disturbed by tumultuous winds of change which cut like erosion through the way things have been; give us wisdom to not blindly accept apparent peace for us when the discomfort of many surround us; give us the whispering ability flowing from your deep peace to tame the circumstances around toward the peace of love and justice for all.  Amen.

Saturday in 9 Pentecost, August 16, 2025

God of Deep Peace; let us have access to your peace which can help us influence the surface events of our lives toward surviving the unavoidable transitions of time which batter the semblances of the identity of what things have been and are to make them into what will yet be; help us face the inevitable changes of time in graceful ways that do not simply add quantity of time units, but quality of life experience for all.  Amen.

Friday in 9 Pentecost, August 15, 2025

Blessed Mary, your ascent in human consciousness to the point of being regarded to be a deathless one, bespeaks to us of the interior cosmic correction which our patriarchal world needs because mothering nurture is desperately needed in our world of vulnerable people today.  Give us Marian graceful nurture to convert paternal greedy control to fatherly protection of the vulnerable children of our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 9 Pentecost, August 14, 2025

Jesus, Prince of Peace, help us to understand the difference between surface peace and contemplative peace since the outer events of live know so many changes some of which can be anything but peaceful; teach us access to the deep inner peace which co-exist with surface waves of life which can be anything but pacific.  Amen.

Wednesday in 9 Pentecost, August 13, 2025

Jesus, help us to live with the contradictions of peace; my experience of peace may be regarded to be discord for others, and their experience of peace may be perceived as discord by me; help us to understand peace in temporal life when many different people understand their supreme values differently such as to set themselves at odds and hinder working together.  God, the peace I knew in my early age would be an ignorant peace to me now and so we need grace to live with the impossible orchestration of everyone being at peace in the same way at any given time.  Amen.

Tuesday in 9 Pentecost, August 12, 2025

God, help us not to limit you to our latest understanding of you, and let us not judge others awry for not having our latest understanding of you; the water of you in the stream of my life now is connected with the water of you in my life yesterday that has gone onto to be in the total Ocean of you.  Give me humility about my very temporal understandings of You always on the way of becoming everlasting.  Amen.

Monday in 9 Pentecost, August 11, 2025

God, because in the reality of freedom in our world, we can predict that division and fighting will happen; give us the ability to be peace-whisperers as the preferred way for us to be healed healers in this world.  Amen.

The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 10, 2025

God, who has shared freedom with everything; give us actuarial wisdom to live within the realm of what probably can happen in the realm of real freedom and let us continually prepare ourselves for the probable even while having hope for the serendipitous hopeful to bring us the surprises of the sublime within the seeming ordinary.  Amen.

Saturday in 8 Pentecost, August 9, 2025

God, we have moments of when visions of new harmony and peace give us temporary relief from the actual chaos and suffering in our world even though such visions do not interdict and end suffering and pain.  We are grateful for built-in analgesics to accompany the reality of true freedom of what can happen in being caught in the natural and willful situations of competition in our world.  Amen.

Friday in 8 Pentecost, August 8, 2025

God of Hope, as good as hope seems to us, we still need hope to be a vision of what is better for the common good rather than just individual self interest; give us projections of hope beyond our mere self-interest for the love and justice for all people.  Amen.

Thursday in 8 Pentecost, August 7, 2025

God, the desires of our hearts often lead us project upon things which reveal our adoration for things that are unworthy of adoration; help us in our constant unavoidable projections to see behind the opaque surface of potential idols to find the inner connecting essence of each thing with all things and in knowing your the connection function of your omnipresence give us the grace to be freed from all idolatry.  Amen.

Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6, 2025

Transfiguring Christ, our personal experience can be tinged with the attendance of shadows and darkness in meanings or with accompanying transfiguring light; give us grace to resist darkness and live up to the transfiguring moments when the nature of the Christ life rises in light on the mount of our consciousness which is the image of God upon us.  Amen.

Tuesday in 8 Pentecost, August 5, 2025

God, are we made with a teleological potential of excellence, and what defines that excellence, and can everyone freely overcome genetic and environmental encumbrances to attain it?  And can we know excellence when it happens?  Are we on but a continuously moving train of all probabilities with resulting actual happenings while we humbly wait for the great MORE of what is yet to come to rearrange our understanding of all that has been?  God, as we are caught in bafflement, let us at the very least be those who help each other as fellow baffled.  Amen.

Monday in 8 Pentecost, August 4, 2025

God of Hope, hopefulness creates within us visions of things which are not and probably will not be actual in our lives as sort of idealized versions of life; keep our faith grounded in the actual crux of living now and let us not resort to fantasies of hope but let hope and the visions of hope provide the directional guidance for us to act toward in the concrete events of our lives.  Amen.

The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, August 3, 2025

God of creative distribution, you have become immanent in seeming endless differences, with each different things having different roles; give us wisdom in the maze differences to bring the just role and provision for all people in our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 7 Pentecost, August 2, 2025

God of all, the screaming presence of evil and harm seem to dominate the foreground of the continuous benevolent permissive and sustaining background, which remains good, even when foreground evil and badness seem to upstage it in public awareness; give us awareness to continually foreground the original goodness of all and so make the case for the normalcy of goodness in human experience.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Pentecost, August 1, 2025

Lord Jesus Christ, you have said it is hard for the wealthy to inherit God's realm because in their pride they believe their apparent possession is actual ownership; Give us the humble ability to know our death ends our ability to possess with everlasting duration anything, and inspire us to be good distributive stewards of all that we have been able to borrow from the plenitude of life.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Pentecost, July 31, 2025

God, the poor wait for trading places with the more fortunate in the afterlife because of the freedom for the powerful and wealthy to dominate and hoard the majority of resources in life; make the market truly free by inspiring the creative sharing of world resources so that all could have enough to live while they live and so that the afterlife does not have to serve as a mere analgesic for current deprivations.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Pentecost, July 30, 2025

God, you have inspire hope and wishes for the poor and the oppressed in the biblical witness, but in actual human practice we do not often see the mighty cast down from their thrones or the rich sent away empty; the prevailing freedom for the powerful to oppress still haunts this world even to make "thoughts and prayers" a seeming laughable replacement for doing love and justice.  Give us resilience in the face of so many losses to see the arc of history bend toward justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Pentecost, July 29, 2025

God, free the world markets to make the creative plenty for all to be the best expression of the free market; deliver those who are freely greedy from their impoverishment in the spirit of generosity and care for the people of his world.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Pentecost, July 28, 2025

Give us, O God, hearts to seek heavenly treasure as we seek to be delivered from human greed which has left the resources of our world in the hands of the few while many suffer impoverished lives.  Amen.

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 27, 2025

God who has arisen as a named Being within human language; we assume ultimate greatness is meaningfully translated into our human situation even as Actual Greatness is beyond our limited judgment ability; keep us humble about what is mysteriously negligible from the furthest horizons to our human knowing, but do not let our limited knowledge hinder us from continuous attempts at applied love and justice in our human situations.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Pentecost, July 26, 2026

God, your greatness surpasses all our attempts at artificial intelligence with its goal of vacuuming all possible data to be reused; you are the continuing immanence in all as life is sustained and reconstituted traces of past into new presences to become fodder for new presences tomorrow.  We are marvelously onboard for the ride asking for your graceful help in making our lives beneficial for the promotion of a better future in love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Pentecost, July 25, 2025

Through prayer to you, O God, we shamelessly promote the vocation of prayer because we celebrate the manifold relationality of life of living and moving and having our being within you as the divine ground, upon which we are called to love you and our neighbors as ourselves.  Amen.

Thursday in 6 Pentecost, July 24, 2025

Give us wisdom, O God, to understand human repetitions so that we might be prepared to interdict those which tend to hurt and harm, and emulate those which heal and offer care to those who need it.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Pentecost, July 23, 2025

God, the conditions of freedom make it seem that our requests of bread gets a stone in return, and our request for fish result in a snake bite; let us not conform to the freedom for evil and badness to happen to us with corresponding evil and bad deeds of our own, but let our prayers be our willingness to participate with you who are creative freedom in over-coming the freedom for things to be bad and evil, with the freedom for things to be good and healing.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Pentecost, July 22, 2025 (Feast of Mary Magdalene)

God, give us the humility to correct the wrong portrayals of people in the past such as happened to Mary Magdalene; let not the misrepresentations due to biases of people of the past persist, and give us humility and grace to be honest about our own histories especially if our past faults remind us of the continual need for reparations and for surpassing ourselves in the excellence of truth and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Pentecost, July 21, 2025

God of and in All, give us the insights of our connection with all through prayer as our expressions of relationship; let our oral prayers and our written prayers be complemented with the oblational prayers of our body language bespeaking the love and justice of God in our life situations.  Amen.

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 20, 2025

Invisible God, who is confessed as the hidden effects of all that is seen; silent God, who is heard in the very conditions of being able to hear; give us eyes and hears to perceive your sublimity which can propel our lives toward better approximation in our life products of love and justice.  Amen.

 Saturday in 5 Pentecost, July 19, 2025

Great Plenitudinous All, enormity overwhelms us into solitude of contemplation as we accept that we are pelted by everything all at once in the now and we are compelled to silence or is it the hum of everything which melts and melds the sounds of our thought words which seek bearing and control on the ocean of your All?  Amen.

Friday in 5 Pentecost, July 18, 2025

God, whose very names and attributes are but regarded as sublime emanations of the invisible and unknowable, even the great mystery of the wholly Negligible which surely effects us in unknowable ways; and while the mystery of you should keep us very humble about everything including the knowledge of you; give us grace to work at, even in our imperfect ways, the continual application of the sublime love and justice which best characterizes incarnate deity, even the Sublime in our lives.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Pentecost, July 17, 2025

Christ, you became confessed poetically as the all and in all, and the reconciler of all things as the creator of all things; help us who accept the reality of everything having happened in the ways that things have happened but who as yet do not yet find the positive reconciling reasons for why so many things have happen in the harm and hurtful events of life.  In humility and hope we await future positive insights which might give suffering a different meaning than just the awful pain in time that has an ending because of time.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Pentecost, July 16, 2025

God, who in the pure negativa is no such place or no such person as we know ourselves to be limited in our capacity to understand, we deign to speak and name you in our accessible and analogical human terms by naming you as Eternal Word who enfleshed Word in specific Personhood, so that we might know ourselves as in-Christed beings bearing the More than Us image in our particularity.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Pentecost, July 15, 2025

God, whom we designate as Pure Invisibility, with the invisible phenomena of language which has positive and evidential products; we grapple with the profound plenitude and greatness which confronts us and overwhelms for which we can only funnel into the language products which become our language traditions about the meanings of our lives; help us not to be too proud our our certitude about anything and give us grace for the work of translating love into actual products of love.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Pentecost, July 14, 2025

God, give us the wisdom to take vacations and holidays from every day schedules for the new possibilities of contemplation of the next great insights which can help us reorganize all that has come before, and give us the humility to change what once was regarded as status quo, if it does not measure up to the new requirements of love and justice revealed to us in new contemplative events.  Amen.

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 13, 2025

Give us grace, O God, to love our neighbors as ourselves, even when it is not convenient for us because we can have the insight about our own situations of need when it is inconvenient for others to help us; and let us rejoice that the situation of need and the care giver for that need is the match made in heaven.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Pentecost, July 12, 2025

God in a world of many different people, help us not to be surprised by the neighborly kindness of stranger and help us to be the strangers who are kind to those beyond our normal circle of acquaintances, as we strive to emulate you as Love.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Pentecost, July 11, 2025

God, we live in your Neighborhood with neighbors who are located far from us and close to us; let us not define neighbor by who we have to love but by who we get to love to achieve the true dignity of being a neighbor.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Pentecost, July 10, 2025

God who encompasses all differences; inspire in us strategies for over-coming the fear of differences which separate us from each other and hinder us from being good neighbors; let the Other Friendliness of your Love inspire in us the kind of love to appreciate the fullness of what different people can bring to the quality of our lives.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Pentecost, July 9, 2025

God of love, give us wisdom not to equate loving and liking since our affinities are often much smaller than the hard love of justice which is the gold standard for the honoring of human dignity.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Pentecost, July 8, 2025

God of the world of differences, we can let differences among people provide a reason for not embracing and loving but for creating distance, shunning, harm, and war; give us the grace of building connecting bridges through empathy as we learn to let your image in me touch your image in everyone else.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Pentecost, July 7, 2025

God, we find ourselves plopped together as people who did not always choose to be together as passive neighbors; please inspire in us the art of living in neighborly care for one another in how we distribute the resources of goods and services equably for the just benefit of each person.  Amen.

 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, July 6, 2025

Lord Jesus Christ, the witness we have been given for your life presents you as one with unique, even savant goodness, that we are drawn to confess your seeming otherworldly divineness; let your savant goodness extend to us in your afterlife witness to us as the Risen Christ who gives a connection with the image of God upon our lives.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Pentecost, July 5, 2025

God of Good News, we languish in self-doubt and procrastination waiting for the best way to bring good news to our world; let not our false pride for imminent perfection delay us from exercising from the current state of our loving hearts strategies of hope for the people in our world.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Pentecost, July 4, 2025. (Independence Day, USA)

God, you inspired a people to be profoundly ecumenical in living together in justice with profound differences of faith and ethnicities; forgive us for not living up to our ideals of justice for all and backing away from the expansion of justice for all when new people of new identities want to join with us in our common life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Pentecost, July 3, 2025

God, the eternal Word, with word and language you have given us naming power, and how we name and categorize is related to how we treat the world and the people we come to name; let how we name the world and each other be consistent with the naming creation story when you named, created, and called it good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Pentecost, July 2, 2025

God of all, give us an appreciation of how universal pain is in its many forms for people so that we might commit ourselves continually to universal health care to be made accessible to all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Pentecost, July 1, 2025

God of calling and sending, keep us ever in the Called/Sent mode, of tending first to hearing what is good and excellent, and then going forth to witness to the latest in the insights of love and justice to be applied in our lives.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Pentecost, June 30, 2025

Inspire us, O God, with strategies of love because wishing to love and be loved without the practice of love disconnects us from you as the source of love; and let us never think that we have loved enough because love is always seeking new fulfillment in time.  Amen.

Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 29, 2025

God, we live in the dilemma of being called to love our enemies while we at the same time must protect the vulnerable from those great powerful enemies who exploit the weak; we observe your voluntary weakness in being seemingly neutral about what is happening in this world due to the maintenance of the conditions of true freedom; in your apparent outward weakness, please manifest a profound invisible strength to coax, lure, and persuade us about our freedom to choose goodness for ourselves and for each other.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Pentecost, June 28, 2025

God, who encompasses the greatest Realm, many smaller realms of greed, evil, and cruelty exploit the freedom to be evil within the Divine Realm; give us grace to uphold the goodness of great freedom to oppose and overcome evil in the ways that we can and have courage to resist and change the things that are in our power to do.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Pentecost, June 27, 2025

God, we are those who sometimes equate your apparent being as equivalent to the good fortune in our life which we call blessing; give us grace to accept your greatness which encompasses the events and probable outcomes which do not seem to be our contextual good luck but require our bowing to the genuine freedom which truly validates ethics as bearing the essence of valuation.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Pentecost, June 26, 2025

Christ, when you don't come to the language of people, still people find ways to project what greatness means for them in very human hyperbolic terms; thank you for affirming our privilege to confess greatness and to know that greatness is humbled and empty to forms of human apparency; give us grace not to idolize our forms of knowing divine apparency even while we confess our greatness due to our connection with you as All and in All.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Pentecost, June 25, 2025

Give us wisdom, O God, in the use of artificial intelligence as we seek to do no harm, heal long-standing diseases, feed and care for more people in ways that lifts the dignity of all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Pentecost, June 24, 2025

God, let the metrics of our performance today not be in terms of popularity or measurement of worldly success, except the success in moving the arc of history closer to realized justice in more local situations.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Pentecost, June 23, 2025

God, you have been made portable and available within us as the divine Trojan Horse within us to break out and conquer our being from within as ministering messaging to help us sew our inner lives with our outer world in ways of peace and coherence; keep of mindful of your image upon us as our birthright.  Amen.

Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 22, 2025

Be in us O Christ, as we seek to be in You, as a place beyond the biases of small hearts and petty regionalism; and let us embrace being in You as a place of continual growth and the stretching of our hearts toward the unconditional love of God.  Amen.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Help us, O God, to embrace our identity in Christ such that we do not let lesser identities of gender, race, nationality, socio-economic, regional, or educational experience keep us from embracing the universal love of all who bear the divine image.  Amen.

Friday, June 20, 2025

God, without knowing precision about the causation of everything, we cannot avoid asking why things happen and what can we do to make things happen in better ways for more people; give us grace and wisdom to minister to the mystery of causation which resides within the troubled minds of people who need to be whispered to calm and peace and wholesomeness within community.  Amen.

Thursday, June 19, 2025 (Juneteenth in America)

God, the knowledge, promulgation, and practice of justice is delayed and late to arrive to many people who have been forced to live under oppression of people who deny the equal image of God upon all; today we celebrate the arrival and practice of justice whenever and wherever it becomes apparent, even as we ask for critical social knowledge about our blindness to our own oppressive tendencies.  Give us the zeal to be liberators as much as we desire to live lives of liberation for ourselves.  Amen.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

God of all, deliver us from setting criteria which falsely promote that you are not with and for all; give us heart enlarging experiences so that we might learn better the practice of the love known as justice which respects the dignity of all persons.  Amen.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

God, we ponder the mystery of the invisible interior which often results in acted out horrific events even while we know that love and justice can be acted out from the interior constitutions of people who have been whispered by peaceful self control; in as much as the interior life becomes an expression of "garbage in, garbage out," let us be those who create the input environments for good things to be fed to the hearts of people so that their interior constitutions can result in good outputs of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday, June 16, 2025

God, we often know ourselves in a world with the violent few trying to irreparably injure the chance of us having a future of peace and justice; give us courage to be the first responders to work at the healing of the violent results and to boldly proclaim the normalcy of you being a God of love, who calls us to live in the image of this love.  Amen.

First Sunday after Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, June 15, 2025

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you are dynamic connecting personhood at the center of life and you have come to our language to inspire us to work at best connections with each other in love and justice, and with you as an interior dynamism for mystical encounter.  Amen.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Arising Trinity, you are permission for language users to affirm words as vehicles for insights about how the invisible divine can be integrated into our understanding of humble living with great Mystery, while not being passive about love and justice.  Amen.

Friday, June 13, 2025

God, after using essences, energies, and emanations to speak about the reality of the Holy Trinity we humbly confess our failure to acknowledge the mystery of knowing you as the excessive confrontations of you as the All and in all, who can only be understood in piecemeal insights tailored to our capacity limitations.  Amen.

Thursday, June 12, 2025

God, who in our language tradition has been relationally known as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; even as our language experience in time cannot bear the fullness of synchronicity, we can know that we always impinged by an absolute past from which we have come, and we are continually re-comprised in the moving moments of time which instantiates our mutual experience of all in Holy Spirit connection, we give thanks for the particular emptying of the divine into Jesus who affirms our humble anthropomorphic efforts to explore the continual possibility of becoming divinely human.  Amen.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

God, we give thanks for the appearance of Jesus Christ whom we confess as one who most aptly bears bi-lingual ability of the divine and the human; we honor the insight of the Holy Trinity which has arisen from the words of Jesus channeled through the sacred writings, and we cherish the elation of the insight of the Trinity, even as we humbly avoid the pretense of assuming omni-competent understanding of the same.  Amen.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Holy Trinity, we embrace you as Mystery, as the Holy Negligible in our knowledge because so much remains unknown in its direct bearing upon our lives; we humbly accept the divine incarnation in our human life as a way for us to accept our human limitation even as including a path for us to know what is extra-human about the great Mystery that is always, already beyond our lives but surely must impinge upon us in mysterious ways.  Amen.

Monday, June 9, 2025

Eternal Word, forgive us for trying to separate words from knowing and understanding you and give us the humility to confess with the word, Mystery, the meaning of what we do not yet know, but let us not confess mystery when the obvious words and deeds of kindness are called for to answer the prayers which do not have to be offered because their answer is in our doing.  Amen.

Day of Pentecost, June 8, 2025

Holy Spirit, you are the awareness of knowing the sameness of Abundant Life within the vast diversity of people with different physical, psychological, cultural, and circumstantial constitutions; give us grace to seek the Abundant Life within life of unity which is known through living the greeting of the Risen Christ when he said, "Peace be with you."  Amen.