Friday, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021
God of dark and light in the natural realm, your presence is constant while the sun can be seen and when it is not; we seek constant light from the Spirit of your Son Jesus so that in wisdom we can direct the path of our life choices today. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Advent, December 23, 2021
God of always, already synchronicity, we cannot help but divide life experience into sequences and categories and identities; but everything is always, altogether, and we trust your comprehension of the altogether, to help us have wisdom in our parsing of overwhelming experience through the specific funnels of our focus today in trying to make our specific situation better, not in a comparative way but in an integrative way with how we mediate the wisdom of your presence. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Advent, December 22, 2021
O God, we who have invented the ability to have everlasting lights while there is natural darkness have lost the light of moral and just care of each other and our environment. Restore in us the inner Light of Christ to penetrate the darkness of injustice, cruelty, and the selfish neglect of those who suffer the most because of lack of care. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Advent, December 21, 2021
O God, who bears everything which has come into existence; and in our thinking that existence should be censored to allow only the perfect to come into being, we erase the moral significance that can only come because of freedom in a field of probabilities, give us the grace to bear everything that we must face today, and help us to discern how we can exercise our moral significance by making the wise decisions in our circumstances toward loving and just outcomes. Amen.
Monday in 4 Advent, December 20, 2021
Gracious God, you emptied the divine life into the life of a baby; your emptied life continues within the lives of all babies and vulnerable people in this world who have been diminished by harshness. Give us grace to tend to the continual self-emptying of the divine within the weak in our world. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Advent, December 19, 2021
O God of justice, we cannot yet say the world is just because we exist in time; give us grace to approximate our behaviors in time with what is just, in giving everything and everyone their due, as each being is also able to acknowledge co-existence with all that was, is, and will be. As we seek justice, let the notion of tomorrow's justice deconstruct the presumption of having arrived at justice for today. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Advent, December 18, 2021
O God of the Magnificat, who lifts up the lowly; not all lowly are lifted up and not all hungry get fed, and we can blame you as an intermittent interventionist or we can live up to our moral integrity created by genuine freedom to persuade humanity to love one another for best human practice. Amen.
Friday in 3 Advent, December 17, 2021
God of Eternal Word, Time, and Freedom, we know ourselves to be because we have language, and having language we have come to name you because language is evidence of the personal, and having language, we cannot help but see everything in personal ways, and so to name you God, as Great Personal Being, seems unavoidable. Give us grace to continue to take you and everything personally, especially if it means deliberate love, care, and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Advent, December 16, 2021
God of Freedom and Time within the lives of language users; we interpret today Freedom and Time as definitive of evolution toward being people of justice and love, and when we seem to be devolve away from justice and love, we ask that the horrendous outcomes will shock us back upon the path of justice and love. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Advent, December 15, 2021
O God of freedom, we need strategy of living with the truth of the free conditions of our world as we try to influence institutions and governments to feed the hungry and lift up the lowly, while doing what we can on the local scale in our neighborhoods. We beseech the will of heaven of ideal behaviors and harmonies to be brought to the actual earthly conditions of our lives even though we know that what is perfect is always further in the future because all creations is still growing up and we of higher sentient life are hoping to learn better behaviors from having failed so often. Help us in the continual task of reconciling the ideal to the actual, and may we play our part in helping to make the actual more ideal. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Advent, December 14, 2021
O God of Blessed Mary, are you scattering the proud and casting the mighty from their thrones when they are not lifting up the lowly? We want the values of Mary's Magnificat to be ours today and we ask for the persuasive powers of God's love to further bend the arc of history toward helping the lowly. Amen.
Monday in 3 Advent, December 13, 2021
Our souls proclaim the greatness of the surpassing Worthy One, because humility is natural in the face of Plenitude; and yet in our very humbled particular human being, we still find a favor in knowing our association, and completeness with the Great One. And all generations of humanity have and will know the favor of having the Christ Child be born in them because of the divine spark on everyone's human life from the beginning of knowing existence itself. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Advent, Gaudete, December 12, 2021
God of Rejoicing in the middle of such a diverse life that there are many thing which are so impaired of goodness that rejoicing can seem out of place; we look for inner and divine compensation to face things which are not worthy because of deliberate evil or the probability conditions which include sufferings; as the Lady of Guadalupe appeared to members of a subjugated people to give them hope and identity, let us also be those who bring hope to people in very deliberate ways when we have the ability to do so. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Advent, December 11, 2021
O God, who asks us to rejoice because of knowing the fruit of the Spirit joy; we know that we cannot rejoice in the conditions of hatred, oppression, cruelty and suffering, even as we can be happy in the good things of life; help us to see you beyond the visible to be the true source of our joy in the midst of all that can happen to us. Amen.
Friday in 2 Advent, December 10, 2021
God who comprehends the most extensive realm of Life; help us to live the values of the realm of God in the applied practice of harmony of difference known as justice so that all beings can find the role that is in accordance with the full freedom of their nature and in so doing live peaceably without causing harm to others. Forgive O God, my prayer for the seeming impossible, but let the ideal inform even our attempts at harmony today. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Advent, December 9, 2021
O God of authenticity, give us humility to receive the rebukes for our hypocrisy, and refrain from replacing right behaviors with religious piety, and help us to "know ourselves," by continual deferral to the Messiah, the one who is unsurpassable but who shares the direction of surpassability with us so that we can repent. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Advent, December 8, 2021
God of Power, is there any hope for "Christian" empires consisting of people who have forgotten our origins as oppressed peoples following the Christic martial arts of the beatitudes? We pray for the perfection of power in being transformed for the care of everyone in society, especially the vulnerable and the weak, and help our democratic leaders to know care as the only way that power can be perfected. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Advent, December 7, 2021
O God, who could be named the superlative of all virtues, we seek to know joy as a sustainer and compensating fullness in the midst of life where the sadness of loss and the results of oppressions, tyranny, and lying are so rampant. Let us not reduce joy to happiness for getting what we want but know it as a flow from a deep well as affirmation for original goodness of life itself. Amen.
Monday in 2 Advent, December 6, 2021
O God of Nicholas of Myra, his outstanding witness of kindness to children inspired the imaginations to make him is his posthumous days a near universal saint of children. Let the spirit of kindness reign today toward children so they can be nourished in hope for a future which from our current world can oft seem dire. With hope let our children be inspired in creativity to make Nicholas' kindness universal. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Advent, December 5, 2021
O God who inspires strategies of people getting better; you sent John the Baptist to emphasize the importance of understanding moral and spiritual direction and the importance of making a commitment to perfection even when our failure due to bad habits humiliate us as a strategy for bringing us to experience the grace of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Higher Power promised us in Jesus Christ. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Advent, December 4, 2021
O God of desert solitude, city bustling activity, countryside pastoral settings; lead us to cross pollination of ideas and pieties born in different settings so that we might enlarge our hearts to understand the meaning of justice for persons within different life situations. Give us grace to tolerate diversity even as diverse people honor justice for all. Amen.
Friday in 1 Advent, December 3, 2021
O God of the Rainbow, comprehending the entire diversity of what is; give us the wisdom of knowing yes and no on matters of love and justice, but also the grace of the threshold between the either and or, because we are people in progress toward what we yet want to become. Help me to know that my yesterday's yes, might be today's "no" because of the becoming in time toward what justice continually means. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Advent, December 2, 2021
O God of the Silence which speaks and inspires, you sent John the Baptist from the silence of the wilderness to preach perfectability as the direction of human becoming, and he prepared the way for Jesus to baptize with the Higher Power of your Spirit, so that we might have the ability to progress in the path of the perfect excellence to which we are called. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Advent, December 1, 2021
Gracious God who calls us to excellence, let us be on the adjustable path toward perfection as we face always the binary of what is, with what is better for the people of our world in kindness, love, and justice. Let us always resolve the binary of what is and what is better with creative advance toward excellence. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Advent, November 30, 2021
Eternal Word of God, even though words are made flesh and external reality in how words structure our existence; words in their most basic sense are interior reality and in this reality we have come to colonize our entire external order. Give us grace to appreciate the interior angelic reality of word messaging and help us to find our best voices following the example of the values of love and justice given to us in the witness of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Monday in 1 Advent, November 29, 2021
God of space, time, and matter, it is hard for us to conceive of space, time, and matter as not existing yet we can understand transformations, transitions, endings, and new beginning as always, already happening. We know that big transitions happen, like the one we call Death, but even as personal death is a change not an ending, we know that you preside over Continuous Life Always, and we are humbled to live and move and have our being and becoming in You. Amen.
First Sunday of Advent, November 28, 2021
God of freedom and time, we aspire for a coming of a hero who would take away the very conditions which make moral freedom valid; we desire a world without possibility or probability of evil, harm, and need and we use hope's narratives for an analgesic for our current struggles. Help us to accept the co-existence of ambiguous living with our days of childhood innocence when we could not understand moral significance and help us be morally strong people who protect the state of the innocent in those who have not yet attained their moral maturity. And let this Advent season be one when all who should be morally mature, rise to the occasion to be those who protect the innocent. Amen.
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