Holy Saturday, April 16, 2022
Almighty God, we remember today that Jesus, the farmer, harrowed the regions of hell in the nether journey of his death. In preaching good news to all the prior dead, he restored the communion of the people of the past with the people of the present. Thank you Jesus for being a cosmic traveler throughout time and throughout all that is and has been visible and invisible. Thank you for making good news accessible to every place in creation. Amen.
Good Friday, April 15, 2022
My God, our God, why have we so often forsaken you and each other with terrible harming behaviors driving people to a trapped loneliness with no apparent intervening aid and comfort? We denounce the forces which oppress to herd people into the experience of forsakenness, and we ask for the grace to be those who are gifted to keep people in the comfort and esteem of community aid. Amen.
Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022
Gracious God, your Son gave us the Eucharist to eat together in public and in so doing you gave us the accountability to make sure that everyone has enough to eat. Help us not to divorce the ritualized bread and wine from the daily bread and the cup of life joy which all people need. Amen.
Wednesday in Holy Week, April 13, 2022
God, who comprehends all changes and variations in life, your Son Jesus had three days of significant transitions in his life, and in the different conditions which he bore, he provided a place of spiritual identity for us to abide in as we faces the many transitions in our personal and community life. Give us grace always to understand the optimism of hope as being the driving energy of change. Amen.
Tuesday in Holy Week, April 12, 2022
God of the full range of probabilities in the field of freedom, we focus this week on the worst of what can go wrong as a way cherishing the days in our mortality, and as we mourn what has gone wrong and prepare for what can go wrong, we always keep open the power of our lives being surprised by, punctuated by the hope which inspires the analgesic of joy. As we walk the way of sorrow, let us not forget the Hope that lies before us. Amen.
Monday in Holy Week, April 11, 2022
Lord Jesus Christ, we walk with you in sorrow this week for our world, for the suffering in Ukraine, for the evil roles which soldiers are compelled to act because of the evil orders of a deranged powerful person. And if we don't walk toward resurrection, the grief would hinder us from the work of overcoming evil with good. Grant us strength in the work of good, O Christ. Amen.
Palm Sunday and Sunday of the Passion, April 10, 2022
God who bears the diversity of the freedom of humanity, on this day we survey the different crowds of people who received Jesus as king and who mocked you as a pretending king ruling from a cross. Give us the consistent character to enthrone in our lives the Risen Christ of love and justice for this world. Amen.
Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 9, 2022
Gracious God, who suffers and dies with us because you honor the moral significance of true freedom given to humanity; let the power of the cross and suffering be seen in our spiritual transformation to die to all that is unworthy in us because of our selfish formation which does not manifest impulse control in the sublimation of the gift of desire as the energy of our lives. Let us learn how to make our desire be the energy for love, goodness, kindness, and justice. Amen.
Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 8, 2022
God of omnipresence, who uses human presence to make apparent your care; help us to accept our roles to be the apparent presence of your love and care for the people whose life experience leaves them feeling forsaken. Grant us to be real presences of Christ in our world. Amen.
Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 7, 2022
O God, whose power is counter-intuitive to the power images of humanity; help us to understand humility, love, kindness, justice, care, empathy, and patience as the expression of divine power in a world which is ever in need of proving moral and spiritual significance in the true freedoms which have been given to us. Amen.
Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 6, 2022
God, our Great Expanding Container, in that you allow our freedom to genuinely contribute to your future Self-Surpassing States; give us grace to fill the divine environment with goodness, love, and justice so that the majority of goodness as normalcy can be seen to triumph over the deprivation of goodness, called evil. In the name of your sustaining grace we pray. Amen.
Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 5, 2022
God of Power and Might, strong even to be in conflict with human notions of power and might; teach us to learn from war not to do it anymore instead of using our creative energies to do war in more devastating way. Teach us that the greatness of power is to be creative in our social, economic and technological lives to care for one another, especially the poor and the underrepresented. Amen.
Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent, April 4, 2022, Commemorating the Martyrdom of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gracious God of freedom, such freedom allowed the untimely death of your servant Martin Luther King, Jr., even as we know the dynamic witness of his message of justice, love, and peace has inspired many people. We ask for the day when there will be no martyrs needed, when your reign of peace orchestrates the lives of all people. Amen.
The Fifth Sunday in Lent, April 3, 2022
Christ, the Eternal Word, whose presence is as obvious and as close as the words which are always, already constituting our lives; help us like Mary of Bethany to honor your presence by placing ourselves under the feet of your continual presence with the perfume of our contemplation, so that we can arise and attend to the poor who are always with us because of our own human greed. Amen.
Saturday in Fourth Week in Lent, April 2, 2022
God of patience, for humanity when we cannot keep ourselves from harming each others in degrading ways, even to causing the many untimely deaths and injuries because of war, we ask for the wise to intervene and keep the triggers from being pull or the arms of destruction being propelled against the innocent and undefended. Teach us to study war no more. Amen.
Friday in the Fourth Week in Lent, April 1, 2022
Wise God and Eternal Word, let us be fools for Christ, if it means discerning between the inward truth experiences which change our lives toward the helpful wisdom of manifesting love and justice in our lives. Forgive us the foolishness for the times when we do not present the wisdom of you as the omni-Becoming giver of genuine freedom who is comfortable enough with using love's lure to convince us to use our freedom in the best way for the care of our world and for the practice of love and justice with each other. Amen.
Thursday in the Fourth Week in Lent, March 31, 2022
Almighty God, how is it that 7.9 billion people cannot stop one person who destroys people, environment, and his own soldiers and country? Could not one person be inspired to intervene and enable our world to begin to heal from a terrible war? Humanity is willing to allow one life to be regarded to be worth more than billions of other people. We pray for help on behalf of 7.9 billion powerless people. Amen.
Wednesday in the Fourth Week in Lent, March 30, 2022
O Cornerstone of our lives, Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem as a presaged textual musing of its complete destruction. We and you weep over the bombed out and destroyed cities of Ukraine and we hope for rebuilt cities in Ukraine inspired by the interior symbol of the new Jerusalem being a universal inspiration for renewal of the human family needing each other and you in living together in peace. Amen.
Tuesday in the Fourth Week in Lent, March 29, 2022
God of our resurrected future reconstitutions in the divine eternal memory; like Lazarus who lived again, we live again in identity with the Risen Christ even before we physically die. We thank you for the assurance of future reconstitution of ourselves in our afterlives, even as this knowledge gives us pre-death hope now. Amen.
Monday in the Fourth Week in Lent, March 28, 2022
Eternal Christ, your Jesus feet were anointed by a woman of excessive love; give us the grace to find the direction of our excess as a way of transforming tendency to lack impulse control in our lives. Let the direction of our love excess toward you reorganize all of the energies of our lives. Amen.
The Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 27, 2022
Loving God, we confess that we have often been prodigal in our ways, but also proudly judgmental of others whose spiritual paths are different than our own. Teach us to be like you as a loving parent who welcomes all and who is coaxing everyone to accept their heritage as being made in the image of God. Grant that the rising of the Christ nature in everyone and everything will bring eventual harmonies. Amen.
Saturday in the Third Week of Lent, March 26, 2022
God of Freedom in Time, the seeming impossible task with freedom and time is to find harmonious timing when harm is avoided and with timing as aging with phases having expiration dates before their transitions, what is our task when faced with many significant transitions in time? Help us to preserve good timing in the transitions which happen in life and protect all from human caused transitions to death, especially the violence of war. Amen.
Friday in the Third Week of Lent, March 25, 2022
God, on this commemoration of the announcement of the impending conception of the Christ Christ, let the announcement ring eternal in Christ being born within all people and let the Christ nature rise up in all to bring about the peace which our world so badly needs. Amen.
Thursday in the Third Week of Lent, March 24, 2022
God who inspires good shepherds, after the witness of Jesus; please save this world from megalomaniacal, narcissistic leaders who lead millions astray for their own pride and wealth, and let us know the peace of leaders who care for their people. Amen.
Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent, March 23, 2022
Eternal Word of God, you have left us with the task of interpreting al words and how we do it results in how we treat each other. Help us to interpret all words of life through the lenses of love and justice, through Christ the Eternal Word of God. Amen.
Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent, March 22, 2022
O God of the Bible, we have inherited a presentation of you as of old being associated with war and taking sides among tribes which fought; In Jesus you submitted to the tyranny of an Empire and left us his impossible words of loving enemies and being good to those who do us harm. And we do not find much about defending the vulnerable, but Scripture indicates that you defend the poor and the needy and Jesus had harsh words for those who treated children badly. We beseech the defending Lord of the needy to apply such defense today on behalf of the people of Ukraine. Amen.
Monday in the Third Week of Lent, March 21, 2022
Gracious God, we live in Nature's clock and we embrace a new spring with the joy that encompasses more than just what is happy in our lives today. How can we be joyful about falling bombs on the innocent, unless we balance the deeply degrading with all of the heroic which has arisen. We are joyful for the heroes in Ukraine who never wanted to be heroes in the way that they are, and we ask for a blessing with hope for their heroism today. Amen.
The Third Sunday in Lent, March 20, 2022
God of great permissive freedom, we ask for the ability of self correction of the free systems in our world so that when evil is given such singular power to harm so many, there may be a rallying of the forces of goodness to expel and end the reign of such concentrated evil. Let this expulsion of the evil occur for the safety of the innocent. Amen.
Saturday in the Second Week of Lent, March 19, 2022
God, our sustainer, we hypocritically ask you to sustain even as we do not practice good sustaining habits for the extended life of the world, and especially as horrendous war takes away from duration in sustainability of our planet. Help us to cherish earth and life on it as our spiritual sacrifice to be pleasing to you, and respectful of others. Amen.
Friday in the Second Week of Lent, March 18, 2022
God of all power, accurate power, deploy your smart bombs which release atmospheric love and inner love into the warring sides of people, and let your holy angels deliver such smart love speedily, in the name of the gift of love to us Jesus Christ. Amen.
Thursday in the Second Week of Lent, March 17, 2022
God of all people, who brings love and calling to people in diverse ways; we thank you for Patrick, though a slave in Ireland, came to love the people so much that he was called to return even after his freedom. We ask for love and calling from Christ to free everyone from slavery, and experience the reconciliation of honest mutual love of people from diverse backgrounds. Amen.
Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent, March 16, 2022
God, we are dealing with our failure to be able to control the widespread destruction of bombs on innocent people through the concentration of power in one person to destroys so many people and their supporting environments. Human laws have left us in helpless stalemates to stop tyrants, and we appeal to your high power aid for those who are dying, even as we know that Jesus lived with the tyrants of his time. We seek an end to tyrants in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent, March 15, 2022
God, we commit to you the person or persons who decide and have the power to indiscriminately bomb helpless people; we ask for an Ides of March moment that can bring an end to those who for no reason but devilish, and cruel power let the banality of bombing destroy peoples' lives and environments. We invoke the restraining angels on behalf of the those in harm's way. Amen.
Monday in the Second Week of Lent, March 14, 2022
Gracious God, let war but be the poignant contrast of the state of war ceasing and people beginning to recover normal life in the conditions of peace. Let war be but the reminder of what we never want to occur, and bring war to an end in the name of Jesus. Amen.
The Second Sunday in Lent, March 13, 2022
Gracious God, in the words of Jesus, he could wish to be a mothering hen caring for her brood; whatever is perfect about mothering, is what we need in our world today as there are many vulnerable who need to be protected from the results of war and abuse. We ask that the presence of a mothering God would be known through just and mercy mutual mothering of people in world today. Amen.
Saturday in the First Week in Lent, March 12, 2022
O Divine Expanding Container of All, who because of true freedom, allow all lesser free agents to make genuine free contributions to the expanding Context; we ponder the freedom of human agents to wage war especially when the human atrocities rise to such opposite extremes of our preferred definition of you as Love. We ask for love to begin to win the day, in our hearts, but also even in the hearts of the tyrants who may be contemplating being the last person alive. Let your love even convert the lonely tyrant who is afraid of more people doing more loving of each other. We ask for the rise of people caring for each other in such an abundance as to overthrow the monopoly on power of the tyrant. Amen.
Friday in the First Week in Lent, March 11, 2022
O God, we have to adjust our providence of your care for the well-being of the people who are victims of war to the afterlives of those who have died, since they have been cut off from completing their prior opportunity to live to at least the probable average age in achieving a natural death. Your timelessness embraces the seen and invisible world of the continuing identities of those who have died; we ask for the comfort for the people who have lost family and friends and the places of their homes. In our helplessness in the face of our own inhumanity, we ask for your help. Amen.
Thursday in the First Week in Lent, March 10, 2022
O God of peace, convert the warmongers to the ways of peace by exposing the sheer waste of human lives and the environments where people live. War is its own punishment to the offenders and to those forced to defend and we ask for the offending leaders to be restored to right mindedness or interdicted so that the lives of the innocent can be saved. O God of angelic messengers, let your angelic messages of peace swamp and spam the warring minds until peace convert them to the reasonable common good of all. Amen.
Wednesday in the First Week in Lent, March 9, 2022
Holy Jesus, your words relayed in the early church were conferring a blessing on the peacemakers. We ponder the dilemma of being peacemakers and dying to establish that peace and the right for peace-loving people to defend themselves and their children. There can be a peace in accepting servitude to tyrants and a peace without equality of love between neighbors is not really the peace of Christ. Let the peace of equality prevail in Ukraine and in our world and let the tyrant become converted to an equal mutual loving neighbor. This is peace we seek. Amen.
Tuesday in the First Week in Lent, March 8, 2022
Holy Jesus, to whom we attribute the martial arts of the beatitudes as a way for oppressed people to survive oppression; inspire the defense of the people of Ukraine as they are attacked and bombed without cause except the sheer singular desire of one man to subjugate. Holy defender of the weak and vulnerable; let your protection be made known today. Amen.
Monday in the First Sunday of Lent, March 7, 2022
God of Word and Language, we find ourselves using language hyperbolically and stereotypically to write off entire groups of people because of the behaviors of but a few; as truth is a victim in war, let us be honest about our tendency to cover truth in stereotypes which victimizes many people wrongly, and allows tyrants to falsely claim unanimity. Restore us in the truth of honest in our use of words. Amen.
First Sunday in Lent, March 6, 2022
God, whose will is not for innocent suffering to happen, in freedom you have permitted humanity to reveal its cruelty to ourselves. Let the inhumanity of cruel war be exposed once and for all as no way to value human life and living, and may the Holy Spirit as an interior force of conviction bring all people in power to peace. Amen.
1st Saturday in Lent, March 5, 2022
O God, when innocent people are dying in an aggressive war, and we are helpless from afar, we can only asks you to do an inside job on people who are ruled by a motive to cause harm to the innocent. We ask for speedy interdiction in manifold ways to save the innocent. Amen.
1st Friday in Lent, March 4, 2022
O God, whom we call powerful perhaps because of your restraint when humanity's behavior is at its worst; we ask for your higher power resolution when the world is held hostage by a person devoid of empathy except for his own immediate power needs. We ask for the malfunction of the war machines of the aggressors who seek to harm innocent people for the selfish gain of one person. We ask for wisdom in the resolution for one who has been trapped by his own hubris and has come to believe that destroying another country is his only way out. Good Lord, deliver us from this evil and spare the innocent. Amen.
1st Thursday in Lent, March 3, 2022
God of freedom, we often feel abandoned to the consequences of our own actions, especially in the fog of war. Give those who who cause harm a vision of the children in this world for whom we want to leave this world as a better place. Give our leaders a vision of life for those of the future and interdict the harmful war guided by singular narcissism of evil and corrupt power. Amen.
Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022
God who mixed dust with deity to make us, we place ashes as icons of our future bodies upon our foreheads and we mourn the eventual separation of spirit from our dust-to-become bodies. Teach us to during this season of Lent to honor the original formula of our composition as we seek to honor the divine image on our lives, and upon all existence. Amen
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