Saturday in 7 Easter, Eve of Pentecost, May 22, 2021
O God of Time, as Eastertide comes to an end, we seek to retain Easter reality throughout all of the seasons of the year; let us move from the sheer joys of Easter alleluias into the dynamic sending of the Holy Spirit to bring the hope and optimism of the resurrection into the places where we reside. Amen.
Friday in 7 Easter, May 21, 2021
O God, we confess you today since we experience vast mutual togetherness but only in our limited contextual portions; we ponder you as the omni-contextual Being who encompasses the collection of all contexts even as they manifest competition, conflict, contradiction and agreement. We ask for the wisdom to know peaceful negotiation of our context with the contexts of our interactions today. Amen.
Thursday in 7 Easter, May 20, 2021
What shall I call thee today, most High, Father, Son, or Holy Spirit? When I speak to One, I am speaking to each, and when I favor one, I know that there resides no jealousy within the Godhead. O Dynamic Trio, you are the model for Fellowship and Communion and we beseech you to ever spill this glorious Communion of Trinitarian love into our human community. Amen.
Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 19, 2021
O God, you have made each being to have one identity through temporal states of manifesting incredible differences; and we fear the loss of continued identity after our bodies die. We thank you for being Spirit God who retains Divine identity through infinite states of surpassing greatness and we commit our personal identity in this life and the next to the Great Spirit who will allow us to know ourselves when we leave our bodies. Amen.
Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2021
Divine One who is the Pure Creativity of Freedom, we are thankful for the moral validity of the shared freedom in our world, even as we are horrified and suffer under the hurtful choices and the collisions of free agents; we ask for your loving grace to bear up under the condition of freedom and we ask for strength and wisdom to know how to overcome evil freedom with good freedom as we seek to be agents of the goodly grace of love, justice and kindness. Amen.
Monday in 7 Easter, May 17, 2021
God of all time, we spiral in time in the traditions of how we measure time, spiritual time, and in the last week of Easter Season we move toward the Day of the Spirit, not to celebrate the coming into being of the Spirit, but a coming into human awareness of the always already Holy Spirit omnipresence of God. And as always we hear the divine rebuke of "what took us so long to know Thee?" Amen.
Sunday, 7 Easter, May 16, 2021
Ascended Christ, the land that Jesus and David walked has been called "holy," and yet it has ever been the place of horrendous wars and conflict; we beseech the divine Shalom and Peace of God to come to the land of Israel, which cannot truly be holy until peace becomes the lifestyle of the people who inhabit it. Send the angels of peace to this land. Amen.
Saturday in Easter, May 15, 2021
Gracious One in the Divine Realm, we thank you that we have been welcomed into your realm as we have ridden the ascension of Jesus to be united with you even as we still traverse the visible realm. Give us grace to negotiate the parallel realms as we hope to bring as much of the will of heaven to earth as we can today. Amen.
Friday in 6 Easter, May 14, 2021
Risen Christ, it is recorded that you prayed that your followers would be One with your heavenly Father; we seek to embrace and know the reality of this mystical union in our time and place as it can be gracefully adapted to our circumstances. Give us courage to embrace the implication of such mystical union in what it might require of us. Amen.
Ascension Day, Thursday, in 6 Easter, May 13, 2021
Omnipresence God, you have always been with us; we thank you on this day, the day when Christ became invisible again and was received back into the omnipresence Eternal Word, we thank you that through that Word, Christ remains with us as all and in all. We thank you that you became particularly apparent in Jesus Christ, and that now in the divine invisible, you still can be known in unseen ways which have very visible consequences for our lives. Amen.
Wednesday, Ascension Eve, in 6 Easter, May 12, 2021
God, who is invisible but who became apparent in how the Eternal Word created human language life, with us being conscious of ourselves as language-users; with the Ascension event Jesus re-entered the invisible realm but as a metaphorical elevator for us to ride to be seated in heavenly places, places where the vision of a panorama of human experience helps us the negotiate the very micro-incidences of our daily life. Keep us on the elevator of the macro and the micro so that the will of heaven can be relevantly worked into the details of human life, always in need of the specific application of love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2021
Gracious God, in the prayer of Jesus he asked that we might be made one with you as he was one with you. We ask that we might embrace the profundity of this prayer request of Jesus and have it fulfilled in our relationship with you. Amen.
Monday in 6 Easter, May 10, 2021
O God, who is all and in all and personified in Christ; you cry out for us to accept our mystical union with you, but we have so suppressed consciousness of you that we often live in alienation. Let your Christ consciousness surface in us in apparency so that we might enter into the marriage of our souls with the divine presence. Amen.
Sunday, 6 Easter, May 9, 2021
God of the Communion known as friendship within the Godhead, you have spilled the befriending grace into the people of the world. Let us receive the befriending grace so that we can know the fellowship and communion of peace with each other in our world. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2021
Gracious Father-Mother God, we seek psychical balance in being true to our male/female natures. And in the Risen Christ, if there is neither male nor female as separate gender competency, there is both male and female in the fullness of complementarity which we seek to enrich us as we struggle to find meaning on the vast continuum of diversity in which we live. And in you God as our Mother, and Blessed Mary as our Mother, we find a special kind of nurture for our souls. Amen.
Friday in 5 Easter, May 7, 2021
Gracious God, we thank you for giving us Jesus to initiate us into the art of living well, the art of learning the applied meanings of love. Let us not try to measure how much we have loved; let us pine for how we can love better in our future as we aspire for the realm of love to guide the life of the world. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Easter, May 6, 2021
Heavenly Parent, you commanded that your Son lay down his physical life for his friends and in love for you and his friends, he did it; empower us to lay down our ego lives for each other as we embrace the spiritual power of the physical death of Jesus to live sacrificial lives for the common good. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 5, 2021
Creator God, you have made us with inner conscious lives to be vacuums of what we experience and most importantly we experience other people in our lives. Give us grace to abide in each other with mutual love as we follow Jesus and become better people whisperers toward peace. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2021
O God of love, you ask of us a love that is more than feeling or affinity or compelled by impulse; you ask of us the love in action, called justice. And giving what belongs to each is not always convenient to us and so we ask for grace to love beyond what is convenient to our immediate ease. Amen.
Monday in 5, Easter, May 3, 2021
O Love Divine, O God who is love, we know such love is beyond the good and evil which is always happening even as it is the sustaining conditions for everything that is happening and becoming; let us aid the force of good in the field of freedom by being drawn toward reconciling love and making cosmic love, particular love events in our lives today. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Easter, May 2, 2021
Divine Holy One, you draw from us all of the best names we can think about and so we confess about you in the superlative what we believe to be best about us when we are best: you are Love itself. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2021
O God, who is the One about whom nothing greater can be conceived; the conception of your greatness cannot help but be all and in all. May we stumble over the divine presence wherever we go today and proclaim, "O, it's you God again; forgive me for forgetting your presence." Amen.
Friday in 4 Easter, April 30, 2021
O timeless God, you accept our artificial ways of presenting time and measuring it because we are compelled to convert time to our stories with meaning and value, even as we whistle in the dark of knowing our stories have endings, but in the timeless resurrection hope we seek to always have new beginnings. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Easter, April 29, 2021
O unseen God, who still has come to our language because with it we register the divine effects in our life and world; let us see and name the divine effects of goodness in a way that significantly overcomes the free agents of evil, pain and the entropy of stable appearances on which we have been tempted to anchor false hope. With resurrection grace, let us always be hopeful about the Divine Some More, some more of you and all that will continue to evolve upon your divine ground. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 28, 2021
God, who has identity with the Eternal Word, we confess that you are signified "beyond language," even as we use the words in language, "beyond language," to signify you. As we are humanly trapped in words and language, we accept the relational essence of language as being something of the Divine essence and so we pray using the relational creations of language, words themself. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2021
O Vine-dresser God of an organic universe, you provide the "holy sap" of enriching sustaining Spirit care and connection through the Eternal Word-Vine Christ and flow into us as branches in the holy organic relational universe. And you ask us to abide in this connection and so today, we say, again, we abide into you. Amen.
Monday in 4 Easter, April 26, 2021
O God, we confess you to be the glue of the universe through whom we are all connected. We confess the illusory sin of pretending separation from you and each other even while everything is always, already rippling the great pond of being causing mutual wave effect of everything by everything and so we humbly confess, we are connected in and by you. Amen.
4 Easter, April 25, 2021
Eternal Christ, you are confessed to be all and in all and as eternal Word, you are the very basis of communication itself. Help us to bring out of the Eternal Word, shepherding care in word and body language deeds, especially so that everyone can be on the receiving end of love and justice. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2021
O God who is the Great Shepherd of the universe; you gave Jesus to be the earthly model of what shepherding care would look like for us in the superlative. Help us to receive good shepherding when we need it and to give it when we have the power, knowledge and wealth to do so. Amen.
Friday in 3 Easter, April 23, 2021
O God, who was called a shepherd by the Psalmist, we embrace the general sustaining care in the continuance of life as we know it even as we are deeply challenged that in freedom you have left the significant nurturing, applied care to us a people who are at the top of the freedom chain. Give us grace to follow the shepherding care of your Son, Jesus as we use our freedom to care for each other and our world. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Easter, April 22, 2021
O God, who inspires the mixed metaphors of Christ as Shepherd and Lamb of God, we ask for the power of sacrifice to be made manifest in making us little good shepherds for the care of those who are vulnerable in this world. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 21, 2021
O God, who gave us the resurrection to give us hope for being further finished in our moral and spiritual progress; forgive all evangelists when they repent, who preached the Gospel to people whom they would not let become their equals in grace, justice and human dignity, in social, economic and educational status. Forgive us the laziness of putting off actual justice in some future resurrection perfection rather than in the here and now for all people everywhere. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2021
God of poetic imagination, best words can code our inner worlds and result in total personal outcomes and so become made flesh in bodily actions of love and justice. And forgive us for denying the empirical effects of inspiring poetry to change our world through moral action. Amen.
Monday in 3 Easter, April 19, 2021
O great God, greatness inspires the freedom of language to no longer be bound by the gravity of the natural laws because the inner imaginary space is limitless with metaphors to perpetually respond to the greatness of All. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Easter, April 18, 2021
Loving Maker, we are made to become what we consume and the Risen Christ gives us himself as our "food and drink" of life as we interiorize our identity with Christ to aid us in filtering all of life experience which we have occasion to consume. Grant, O God, that our life experience be filtered through the redemption of the Christ experience. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2021
Risen Christ, be known in the breaking of the bread as we gather to realize the complementing Presence of joy, peace and love in the fellowship of gathering. Amen.
Friday in 2 Easter, April 16, 2021
God of Omnipresence and of particular Presence in Jesus: the resurrected Christ was known in a particular way in the fellowship of eating together. Grant that we would understand the aspiration of the Eucharist to be the fellowship of everyone in the divine banquet of the universe. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Easter, April 15, 2021
O God, who can tax the universe because the divine image is stamped upon us like coins; we offer our tribute to you giving from your own back to you as we remove egotistical ownership because the Risen Christ has converted us from "mine" to Thine. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 14, 2021
Gracious and Processive God, in your sustaining continuous creation, we witness the turn of the kaleidoscope of the the created order today. And most things look exactly like they did yesterday even as we know that they are aged. Your cycles of nature repeat with the return of the traces from what we remember and within the sameness of all, we acknowledge the unique and catching events, like the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus, which will not be repeated, but remain in the memory of our traditions as the promise of our future post-death apparent states within the divine order, somehow, someway. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2021
God of Beauty, you reveal beauty in the play of the very simple and the very complex and we extol the meaningful truth of beauty in all of its manifestations. Give us grace to accept the truth of beauty which moves us in different ways than the meaningful truth of science and logic and teach us how to appropriate the beautiful art of the resurrection of Christ which has come to us in the words from the One who has been called Word, Itself, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Monday in 2 Easter, April 12, 2021
God who oversees a continuously altering world; give me grace to perceive the Risen Christ, who was an altered state form of Jesus of Nazareth, yet with a continuity which linked them across the divide of death as One Being. Help me to live with a sanguine feet-on-the-ground ground objectivity for the material goodness of this life, even while knowing inward altered states of seeing beyond the curtain of the physical to what can inspire beneficial action for all beings in this life. Amen.
Second Sunday of Easter, April 11, 2021
God of perpetual Presence, like Doubting Thomas there is part of me which believes in the primacy of sensorial existence and yet the invisible intuitive presences continuously interweave my experience to give your holy indications of other presences which are equal to or greater meaningful truth for me than what I see, hear or feel. And so I am grateful for invisible, evocative presences which come to language with million megaton "imprecise" words like love, peace, joy or Wow! Amen.
Easter Saturday, April 10, 2021
Gracious God, the absence of Jesus became the presence of the Risen Christ and we offer our thanks for the expansion in how we might perceive divine presence at almost anytime as the "anointed" occasion becomes messianic in how it is perceived. Amen.
Easter Friday, April 9, 2021
God of omni-presence, whose presence is so general like the hum of all sounds happening together, thank you for providing us "stand out" and apparent and particular presence in Jesus of Nazareth, but also as mystical apparent presence in the Risen Christ known through what has come to words as the Holy Spirit presence. Amen.
Easter Thursday, April 8, 2021
Gracious God, we who live in our bodies are physical thinkers as we privilege the substantiality of our physical lives; and so you have allowed us to use the empirical verifiable as a metaphor for what is really, "Real;" grant us to have faith in the substantiality of the experiences of the extra-physical since our language can honestly meaningful respond to things not-seen but things that are meaningfully real. Amen.
Easter Wednesday, April 7, 2021
God, who is the blessing of pure freedom behind and within the things visible to human eyes; you gave us the Easter story to lead us to be restored in the "Christliness" of all beyond the limited sentimental visualizations of Jesus of Nazareth and hereby revealed that all things were "anointed" with the designation of good in the creative event. Amen.
Easter Tuesday, April 6, 2021
God of the unrepeatable events and occasions of time, give us grace to accept the uniqueness of the resurrection of Christ, and as unrepeatable for anyone else in the very same way, because you reserve for each a unique way to know resurrection Give grace to enable each to know hope's particular narrative in life. Amen.
Easter Monday, April 5, 2021
O Easter God, the resurrection of Jonah was being puked by fish onto the seashore; how your Son Jesus escaped the tomb to be an endless apparitional being is marvelous to think about even as I know that through the Eternal Word, all things are linguistically possible. Amen.
Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021
O Easter God, with the dynamic preserving of the life of Jesus as the Risen Christ, you remade the meaning of a terrible means of capital punishment. Even as I cannot believe that all things can be well in real time, with resurrection hope I hold out for a final all manner of things being well indeed. Amen.
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