Tuesday in Last Epiphany, February 13, 2024 (Shrove Tuesday)
Steel our hearts, O God, on this eve of our Lenten fast and teach us the positive discipline of converting energy by taking on tasks of justice and kindness to replace habits of indulgence, and so integrate and make permanent new habits of grace for the Easter season. Amen.
Monday in Last Epiphany, February 12, 2024
Gracious God, worthy of praise, we prepare to fast from using a defining word of praise not because it does not apply, but as a practice in penting up our energies for a greater release in our praise on Easter Day. Amen.
Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 11, 2024
God of Light, would that the peoples of the entire world would experience a tsunami of inward light, not to blind or remove freedom, but to inform us toward the best ways of peaceful harmony. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2024
Eternal Word, move deeply within us in the very deep word structures of our inward lives where dwells the springs of our volition and let our deep words be re-scripted to comport our body language with deeds of kindness and justice, and let our language performance in speech and writing evoke your sublime presence. Amen.
Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2024
Eternal Word of God, in having words we ask for the wisdom of good word arrangement in content and style so that we can have our interior lives shuffled in a way that what we call light or enlightenment occurs. And in you as Word, we see you as the Light which is enhanced wisdom in how our lives are ordered by the words of our life. Give us all more experiences of light in the ordering of our lives by and through words. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2024
God, we would want to confess you as the categorical imperative, as that which is universally recommendable, and yet we can only do so from such limited locations in space and time meaning that we do not have the appropriate capacity to speak with precise experiential knowledge about you. But we can have the humility to always confess a expansive MORE than we or anyone has, can, or will know. And we take liberty to project upon the great MORE love and justice as the best intentions of existence. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2024
Christ, Light of the World, Word of words; would that you could or would flood the interior worlds of all people so that we could together see our way toward acting out the requirements of love, kindness, and peace with each other. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2024
Christ of the Transfiguration, light is the fitting metaphor for the ability to see in a different way to enable a different kind of discourse; grant to us the ability to see poetically so as to add moral and ethically seeing to the scientific materialistic discourse which we cherish for wisdom in everyday commonsense living. Amen.
Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 5, 2024
God of the cycles in nature, give us grace to learn in the spiraling advancing repetitions of our lives, and let us remember the butterfly moments so as to survive and learn in the phases between the releases from our dark nights of soul. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 4, 2024
God, we exist in many states of health on this side of the event of our deaths; let us not be too religiously preoccupied with health after our deaths that we neglect the many health needs of people who are living, especially the great health needs of adequate food, clothing, and shelter. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2024
God of us who are people with unavoidable favorites; give us wisdom to accept the justice of everyone being exceptional even while everyone is required to be on their path of always surpassing themselves in love and justice. Give us humility to accept the esteem of being loved even while we offer that esteem to all with the requirement that all us are on the educational program of repentance. Amen.
Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2024
God, we thank you for preserving forever the Holy Mystery of the Negligible which baffles our accuracy of prediction and precision in knowing all causality; give us courage in doing what we know to be just and kind to others even while we respect the sunlight of sustenance with falls upon the just and unjust proving that mercies prevails even for the unjust and means that God's love is also our judgment. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2024
God of today, we awaken to create in the now all that has gone before because it is born in contrast with the newness of the now; let us be good stewards and interpreters of the memorial traces of what has gone before and act in good actuarial wisdom for a better future. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2024
God of epiphanies, you continue to provide new insights in new times as people seek to apply what love and justice means for people in various situations today. Give us grace to repent toward what is true kindness to all. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2024
God of health and salvation; give us grace to perceive the limits of health in time when the aging effects are inevitable because of the eventual entropy of death; let the terminus point of death inspire us to add quality to life while we live and give us the faith to leave legacies of love and justice in this world. Amen.
Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 29, 2024
God, the work of Adam was naming signifying our vocation in language; we have generated naming traditions for everything inside us and outside us, states and conditions, and we have come to prefer peace, love, and justice because we have also had to name war, terror, and cruelty. Give us cause today to name peace and justice as the experience for more and more people today. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 28, 2024
O Whispering Spirit, the interior lives of billions of people need to be whispered for manifold peace to be realized and we beseech you to do irresistible peace whispering to the chaotic interiors which cause the acting out of the selfish conflicts of war. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2024
God of peace, grant this world a massive interior wave of peace within the restless hearts of billions of people and so change us from within that we might conform our exterior world to habits of peace. Amen.
Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2024
God of freedom, shared in portions with all, help us not to minimize the significance of our limited freedom in the seemingly small and consistent acts of kindness which can drip forth from us to gradually erode the presence of evil in our world. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 25, 2025
Lord Jesus Christ, you are a people whisperer to those who inward lives are troubled; help us to learn how to whisper people to receive the renewal of right spirits within their lives. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2024
God, we accept our place in a very limited location within the greatness of Plenitude; let our ecological words and deed create concentric effects of love and justice as we endeavor to send energy of kindness into the future. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2024
Great One, help us not to discount the value of our smallness in the deeds of kindness which can preserve the future of goodness in our world. Amen.
Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 22, 2024
Eternal Word of God, move over the interior springs where language arises to constitute spoken word and acted out deeds; let your angels of coherent messaging tame the diabolic incoherent chaos of our interior language going awry, and let us act out messages of justice and peace. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 21, 2024
God of epiphanies, grant to us new awakenings which help us in our practice of love and justice as we have our heart stretch to extend empathy to more people.
Amen.
Amen.
Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2024
God of justice, give us wisdom and grace to change things in the direction of a more perfect expression of justice when it become evident of continuing in the sins of our inherited less than just cultural practices. Give us honesty about our traditions when they do not exemplify love for all. Amen.
Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2024
God, you continuously adjust to everything in Time by including the ever happening new occasions; give us grace to adjust to the new that is happening while not passively accepting injustice but actively working to overcome the evil of injustice with reparative good. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 18, 2024
God of Time and creative advance, with Jesus, Peter, and Paul significant innovation was processed to articulate divine love in new situation for more people; give us insights and wisdom to continue to articulate divine love for more people so as to let all no that no one is excluded from your grace. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2024
God who is always calling, help us to discover our calls as the gifts given to us to release our best creativity and benefit us to live together with love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2024
Jesus Christ, you called fisher folk and gave them a spiritual and social mobility that they never dreamed possible, taking a very rural Peter to the great city of Rome; let your call to each of us surprise us by taking us to places we never dreamed possible, especially as it means using us to surprise others in their adventurous callings. Amen.
Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 15, 2024 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
God, you raise up prophets to speak truth to power when the powerful are neglecting the obvious dignity which is due to each human being; give us courage to resist the creeping selfish powerful who through greed and oppression prohibit the full practice of justice. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 14, 2024
Christ, the are the eternal Word, through which all things come to have known being; let your angelic specific word messengers come to awareness upon this vast ladder continuum of possible words and let these specific angelic words constitute our lives in love and justice today. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2024
Christ, the eternal Word, you manifest your word in all the images of our vision and forgive us for misperceiving what we see; let us grow up to have corrective lenses of wisdom help us to see aright. Amen.
Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2023
Christ, being Word, you are the manifestation of the central meaning of humanity, namely, language using beings; we cannot understand having being without being first constituted by word and we seek wisdom in living and moving and having our being as knowers in language; give us the wisdom of knowing always the better value choices to make in a world of vast differences and let our better value choices be in the service of the values of love and justice today. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2024
Christ the Word, you are the Ladder from the interior word on which the angelic messenger words proceed; help us to discern the very best and telling Christ-like words to constitute the speech and actions of our lives in the practice of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2024
God of truth, help us to live with the honesty of who we are and what we have done, even when the sum total of the occasions of our lives can never and should never be on public display; give us the honesty of knowing fully what we might do and be so as to live with forgiveness toward others. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 9, 2024
God, on whom we project the great purposes of plenitude; we thank you that each person can find specific purpose in life which becomes their call to know the joy of personal creativity on behalf of creative advance for love, knowledge, and justice within the human community. Amen.
Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 8, 2024
Gracious God, give us wisdom to model what is truly excellent in justice from the witness of people in the past and give us courage to reject things that were regarded as true simply because everyone was doing it; and grant that the witness which we leave for people of the future be behaviors which are lastingly worth imitating. Amen.
Sunday, 1 Epiphany, January 7, 2024
God of all, why did we need an Epiphany to tell us that you are manifested to everyone by an inside job in storing your image within everyone? We thank you for the witness of the Risen Christ to make manifest what has always already been for all people as children of God. Amen.
The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2024
God of all possibilities, let us be lured by possible love and goodness to be manifest in actual words and deeds of love and goodness and so make the Epiphany of Christ and Christ-likeness a current event in our lives. Amen.
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