Shrove Tuesday, February 21, 2023
God of compassion and forgiveness, let our day of shriving be followed with genuine amendment of our lives so that we do not mock and abuse your generous mercy. Amen.
Last Monday after the Epiphany, February 20, 2023
God of mountain top experiences, we want to live on the mountain top and not face the conditions of probability which result in loss, grief, and woe; give us grace to know that the light of the mountaintop still shines within us in the deepest valley of life. Amen.
Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 19, 2023
Risen Christ, your story was told including the story of Jesus on the Mount of the Transfiguration; let us bear your uniqueness as God's Child in our lives being transfigured by the Holy Spirit, and made evident in lives of justice and love. Amen.
Saturday in 6 Epiphany, February 18, 2023
God of the mystery of negligible in all that we know, keep us humble about what we think that we know so that we can be open to the new which shatters our preconceived notions. And let us also remember there is much more that we don't and cannot know, and if we cannot know, let our continuing ignorance be complemented with works of love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 6 Epiphany, February 17, 2023
God who is highest, let us have mountain top experiences which enlighten us to bear up with the clouding mysteries of life, and let us have the light of wisdom to guide our transfiguration in betterment. Amen.
Thursday in 6 Epiphany, February 16, 2023
God, who has made us as people with language, we are thoroughly categorized by meanings of how we use and are used by our language; give us grace and wisdom as organizing the persuasions of our lives around what is good, just, and kind for everyone. Amen.
Wednesday in 6 Epiphany, February 15, 2023
Gracious God, the designation for the one for whom no greater can be conceived, you gave us Jesus to be the Superlative for human living; give us grace to live toward him as a standard of being good, just, merciful, and kind. Amen.
Tuesday in 6 Epiphany, February 14, 2024
God on a day of secular love anchored by sentiments of Eros and Cupid, we look to you who is Love itself inspiring us to go beyond the mushy and sentimental and do the hard word of justice, which is realized love. Amen.
Monday in 6 Epiphany, February 13, 2024
God of light, we seek the path of continuous transfiguration even as our bodies diminish with the passing of time. Let light be the continuous insights that we attain in the ever adjustment to all the factors in our environment today. Amen.
Sunday, 6 Epiphany, February 12, 2023
Gracious God, you ask that we be perfect, not to torment us about our imperfection, but to encourage us about our perfectability; give us grace to accept the path of repentance as continual renew of our lives toward what is better. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2023
Gracious God, who in this world can claim to have perfect inner life unless below our inner life we can know Holy Spirit as the pure heart of life itself. Help to know the depth of the Clean Heart of the universe. Amen.
Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2023
Gracious God, we cry to have clean hearts created in us and right spirits renewed within us, because we struggle to align good behavior with good inner motives. Let our failures bring us to accept grace even while we keep at the practice of trying to do what is good, loving, and just. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2023
Jesus Christ, your words state that we must have clean and pure inner lives to accompany our lawful behaviors; we confess that we often are possessed by wrong motives and uncharitable thoughts to the point of needing continuous forgiveness. Give us grace in our efforts to allow the Holy Spirit to be the clean heart in our lives. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2023
Gracious Christ, the words you left to us in the mouth of Gospel Jesus remind us to true up our stated ideals with the actual practice of those ideals. When we fail to practice, let us not call the ideals bad or unattainable, but let us keep on the path of excellence while accepting your excellence as a substitute for our lack, even while we continue our journey on our best versions of love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2023
Gracious God of time, if our future acts contradicts our current acts, let those contradictions be defined as more loving and more just. Amen.
Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2023
God beyond all appearances, help us to be more concerned about our mere appearance of being good and lawful; give us spiritual grace to continually challenge the merely good, with the surpassing better. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 5, 2023
God who inspires the Law, we find ourselves often keeping the law in our outer behaviors even while inwardly we host thoughts and feelings contrary to law and order. Give grace to our inner selves to submit to the order of love and kindness always. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2023
God who is light and sent Jesus to be the Special Light of our world; help us to be filaments of the light of Christ and show forth wisdom, love, and justice in all our words and deeds. Amen.
Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2023
God, who desires peace, you inspire continually laws to help teach best behaviors in human situations; help us to be in the process of law-making as we work to make our behaviors to comport with the highest expressions of love and justice in the actual situations of our lives. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2023 (The Presentation)
Gracious God, your Child Jesus was submitted and submitted to ritual behaviors of his faith community as he was Presented in the Temple. Help us to know the soundness of our ritual practice as they mark our progression in faithful living. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2023
God, you gave us light to see and yet we do not always see well enough to make love and justice operative in our lives; give us the graces of continuous insights so that our words and deeds may be wisely informed toward the ends of love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2023
God, you give us laws to teach us recommended behaviors in the direction of perfection; give us grace to be on the path of being better each day and let us so encourage everyone in the betterment path as individually tailored to their life situation. Amen.
Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2023
God in all, your omnipresence is the salt of life which seasons all creation. Help us to savor the divine season of your presence so that we too, might be salt for the seasoning of our world with love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 29, 2023
Jesus Christ, you left the sayings of the beatitudes to oppressed people who had no earthly power; give us who have been free from persecution to be those who use our earthly lives to end oppression. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2023
God, save us who do not know the conditions of the beatitudes from being those who in positions of wealth and power knowingly or unknowingly force persons to have to live the truths of the beatitudes for their very survival. Amen.
Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2023
Lord Jesus Christ, you left your words of blessings with wisdom for living as oppressed people and we ask for the beatitudinal grace for all oppressed people, but we ask also for us who have materially benefited from the oppression of our forebears to have the courage and grace to right the wrongs of the past in the current life conditions of the heirs of oppression. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2023
God of the impossible, you sent Jesus to confound us with impossible standards, not to frustrate us but to show us that we are always on a road to being better and we tolerate ourselves by relying on the grace of divine completion. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 25, 2023 (The Conversion of St. Paul)
Gracious God, we thank you that in the conversion of St. Paul, you used a Christ-centered rabbinical tradition to bring more peoples of the earth into the knowledge of their place in your love for all. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2023
Gracious God, help us to live the ideals of the beatitudes and keep from being those who force others to live the beatitudes to survive our oppressive and persecuting behaviors. Amen.
Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2023
Give strength God, for those who live in the situations of oppression and persecution; bring to an end tyranny through people who have the power to stop it and set free all oppressed peoples. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 22, 2023
Christ who is our Light and our Epiphany, keep calling us over and over again with new calling to new situations and keep us from being stuck in old callings from yesterday in different times and places and so let us be renewed in new epiphanies. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2023
Eternal Word of God, new epiphanies arise in what comes to language in the experiences of language users and we need insight to interpret the significance of what is new as it is blended by the versions of what has happened before. Give us the wisdom of interpretation of new insights which promote the ends of love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2023
God of Light, let new epiphanies happen today to bring our lives to peace and love and justice in what we do and say. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2023
God, who can become apparent, give us grace to board the epiphany train as we seek to be conduits in the manifestation of the love and justice of Christ to our world. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 18, 2023 (The Confession of Peter)
Gracious God, without knowing what he was saying, Peter confessed Jesus to be the Messiah, even as Jesus told us that God's realm was to be known as near and apparent in his life. Give us grace to live in God's realm and give us lifestyle wisdom to make God's realm apparent to others. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2023
Charismatic Christ, be our coach to release our charisma so that we might be winsome livers of the high Christly values of love and justice today. Amen.
Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2023 (Celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Gracious God, we thank you for the epiphany which Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to America and the world as he rebuked us with peaceful kindness and called us to be our better selves. In his life, the realm of Christ came near to us and we ask for grace to accept the conditions of that realm, the conditions of love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 15, 2023
Gracious Christ, as we bear your name as your follower let our deeds also be Christ-like so that we may bear your name with the integrity of your love for all. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2023
Gracious God, your singular name which refers to superlative great being is an abstraction or reduction from your continuous omni-becoming of creative love. Give us grace to be more concerned about doing Christ-like behaviors than being called a a name which identifies with a certain religious group. Amen.
Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2023
God, let the epiphanies of Jesus Christ help each person in the world to find their calling to make this life better for everyone. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2023
God, who is the continuous Epiphany of all epiphanies; provides us each day in revelatory moments new insights to live better as individuals and societies, and let the standard of what is best for us be love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2023
Gracious God, give us the wisdom not to make equivalent all evil and all good and so discern the direction of our moral progress and moral judgements in the direction of being better today than yesterday for the most number of people possible. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2023
God of Epiphanies, give us the grace of interpreting our knowledge of you in ways which manifest the love and justice of God to the people we encounter. Let us not count as epiphanies things which are not worthy of your loving kindness. Amen.
Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 9, 2023
God of Epiphanies, you continually bring us to new conversions with new knowledge and new information about the realities of life and living; give us openness of heart to new epiphanies as we journey toward our better selves. Amen.
1 Epiphany, The Baptism of our Lord, January 8, 2023
Christ, the Eternal Word, you were a participant in the human ritual of baptism as witness to your full solidarity with our humanity; give us grace to fulfill the baptismal ideals in our daily living as proof that God the Holy Spirit has baptized our inner lives. Amen.
Saturday after The Epiphany, January 7, 2023
God of all, we thank you for the poignant reminder that you are for and with all and that you cannot be limited to any one particular culture, language, or social group. Keep us true to your omni-accessibility. Amen.
The Epiphany, January 6, 2023
God who is Omni-Manifest in all things, we thank you for being particularly manifest in Jesus Christ as God-Person reaching out to all people to find their own God-personhood through the indwelling of the Risen Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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