God who is Sublime and who shares sublime occasions with us; we thank you for the most divinely Sublime Christ who has shared with us the path of knowing our own sublime divine parentage in being in God's image. Give us grace to be good children of God. Amen.
Friday of 4 Advent, December 23, 2022
God of perpetual coming to humanity and God who has alway been present to humanity; let us not your many occasions of becoming apparent in time make us forget the divine undergirding presence of life itself. Amen.
Thursday of 4 Advent, December 22, 2022
God of Time, teach us to value our tentative lives and grant us strength to make what is tentative by being constant efforts at the practice of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday of 4 Advent, December 21, 2022
God who comprehends light and darkness, the longest and shortest day of the year occurs at the same time depending upon our location on earth; give light in our darkness and give us the darkness of rest for our renewal we pray. Amen.
Tuesday of 4 Advent, December 20, 2022
O God who opposes the tyrants, hasten the end of the oppressors of this world so that those who wish for the kindly sharing of everyday life might live in peace. Amen.
Monday of 4 Advent, December 19, 2022
God, who is same in your omnipresence, we give thanks for the Word made flesh in Jesus as a definitive message of the truth of God always being with us in Sameness of presence in all creation. Give us humility to know that we are always walking on holy ground of divine presence and let us honor your presence everywhere with how we live with love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Advent, December 18, 2022
Gracious God, forgive us for personalizes your universal love and forgetting that your love belongs equally to everyone else. Amen.
Saturday of 3 Advent, December 17, 2022
God of all, forgive us when we invoke you as justification for our small hearts in excluding others from invoking you from different situations than ours. Amen.
Friday of 3 Advent, December 16, 2022
Christ the Eternal Word, you have created us a language users to know that we use language for speaking, writing, and our body language deeds; give us grace to elevate our language by practicing what love and justice might mean in speaking, writing, and the acts of our body language. Amen.
Thursday of 3 Advent, December 15, 2022
God of all peoples, so many name you in different ways for their particular identity in their particular locations on earth; give us grace to promote our locations as houses of prayer for all people and avoid presuming that we speak exclusively for you. Amen.
Wednesday of 3 Advent, December 14, 2022
God whom we say has advents in human experience even though you have never left human experience. Give us who have live so long in states of your presence being inapparent, many more advent experiences of your apparent presence. Amen.
Tuesday of 3 Advent, December 13, 2022
God who has been born within creation from the beginning; we thank you for the specific birth of God in Christ in the person of Jesus to bring us the knowledge of the general fresh natal presence of God within us. Amen.
Monday of 3 Advent, December 12, 2022
God who would not be known if you were not with human experience; we thank you for the occasion of knowing the greatness of what we participate in and we ask for grace to be participants of this life with love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Advent, December 11, 2022
God who is All, whose All has to get funneled into translatable bits to be processed by us; let the bits which get to us be the ones which teach us love and justice in our words and deeds today. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Advent, December 10, 2022
God of Advents and perpetual comings known in language lives of language users; some of your comings to be known are more pronounced and poignant as in the person of Jesus and his many future comings as the Risen Christ. Gracious God, let us be prepared for the many comings of God to us. Amen.
Friday in 2 Advent, December 9, 2022
God of time, we live in the latest times; give us wisdom to peruse what we can from the past experiences of humanity, so that we can make better decisions to effect further future latest times for better conditions of justice. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Advent, December 8, 2022
Gracious God who inspired the Magnificat; forgive us who sing this song when we do not lift up the lowly, or feed the hungry, or send the rich away empty. Let us be delivered from being hypocritical singers of this glorious song. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Advent, December 7, 2022
God of patience, we often think that you wait too long for things to be resolves, corrected, ended, and redeemed. Forgive us who do not have the same divine duration as you, to be patient in anticipating many good things for the common good of the most people in our world. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Advent, December 6, 2022
God of the most Expanding Realm, in this Realm the humble bishop of Myra has morphed into the patron giver of gifts for children. Give us grace to keep this world aptly prepared for children to know the basic gifts of life. Amen.
Monday in 2 Advent, December 5, 2022
Gracious and Everlasting God, your Realm includes the experience of time as the before and after moments of life; you have placed us in the latest times according to our contexts, and we ask for grace to integrate in wise ways the traces of the past that we know into a better now and future in our human craft of love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Advent, December 4, 2022
Gracious God, the banality of your presence goes unrecognized and sadly we live the banality of unexamined inferior living of injustices. Thank you for the prophets who expose our banal evils and who invite us to new habits of the banality of goodness which we begin to do without recognition. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Advent, December 3, 2022
God of the beauty of infinite diversity, help us to appreciate the truth of beauty in its many forms; and let us not limit truth to but propositional logical phrases of science but complement the practical with aesthetics of love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 1 Advent, December 2, 2022
God of Ideals, about whom none greater can be conceived; we seek not to be condemned by what is best but coaxed to it in making choice and actions to be better today than yesterday. Thank you for prophets who give us the direction of perfectibility. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Advent, December 1, 2022
Gracious God, your Plenitude is beyond our comprehending capacity in always being More than we can perceive even in the extended durations of our experience. In your Great More, we receive utopian visions of the harmonies of love, justice, and peace, and though such visions elude our capacity to make them actual, we receive the grace of these visions to know the direction of goodness. Keep us this Advent on the path of Goodness. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Advent, November 30, 2022
God, who is Utopian Being, your vision of perfection provides us with the direction for human progress toward love and justice and living with the most adequate harmony in this world of true freedom with so many agents of freedom in direct competition and clashes. Give us the wisdom of harmony on the path of the best harmonies for the most beings in your created order. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Advent, November 29, 2022
God of all possibilities, the seeming impossible visions of future perfection haunt us daily to get our act together; we asked for the utopian person, the Risen Christ to spiritually animate us toward what might be significant progress today in surpassing ourselves in love and justice. Amen.
Monday in 1 Advent, November 28, 2022
God of our ideals, you have sent prophets and the prophetic to remind us of how we fall short of the ideals of love and justice; give us grace to bear up in our gaping failures and give us strength to take wise incremental steps toward the ideals of love and justice in our specific life situations today. Amen.
Sunday, 1 Advent, November 27, 2022
God of Everlasting Continuity, let us not only have visualization of the end of injustice, but let us also work to make justice a reality in our world toward the model of the perfect justice of the reign of Christ. Amen.
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