Holy Saturday, March 30, 2024
God, on many days we wait while it seems like your beneficial present is dead and absent in our world of death and suffering; give up hope to believe in the continuity of substantial personal identity of all whom we have lost. Amen,
Good Friday, March 29, 2024
God, you are with us totally in an omnipresence which encompassed death when Jesus died upon the cross; today we return to the icon of suffering and weakness knowing that you do not prevent the freedom for people to be evil; grant that we might receive the identity of Jesus with death as the power for us to die to what is unworthy in our lives so as to make room for transformation of such seeds of death with new sprouts of teeming life. Amen.
Thursday in Holy Week, March 28, 2024, Maundy Thursday
Hospitable God, your Son provided the Eucharist as a way of modeling the entire world sitting today at an agape feast with enough to eat and in peaceful fellowship; keep us working toward the exalted aspirations of the Eucharist as the holy agape feast of God with humanity instantiating reciprocal service as our survival. Amen.
Wednesday in Holy Week, March 27, 2024
God of light, as it sometimes seems that the light of hope is being gradually extinguished in the dire circumstances of human grief; give us hope in your eternal flame which can always relight the world through people who open themselves to your renewing Spirit. Amen.
Tuesday in Holy Week, March 26, 2024
God of the Passion of Christ, we walk in our accessible traces of how the Christ event has been regarded within our history; as we remember those traces, we also pass on those traces and thus etch deeply the groove of belief that you are with us in every life circumstance even if such with-ness does not always seem to be in our immediate favor and partakes of the voice of Jesus saying, "my God, why have you forsaken?" Amen.
Monday in Holy Week, March 25, 2024
God of the sufferers and who suffers with us; grant to us during this Holy Week to find the paths of being living sacrifices, in obedience to our identity with Christ, and for the benefit of the people of this world. Amen.
Sunday, Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion, March 24, 2024
God who is omnipresent in our suffering and who partakes of the weakness caused by genuine freedom and freedom's outcomes; let us know the reverse power of the seeming victory of death and suffering over us to be but the prelude to what is next in the scenes of hope for us and the world. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Lent, March 23, 2024
O vastness of God, the ocean of your plenitude requires that we find rafts of identities to traverse vastness in time; give us grace to apply justice and bring together all the rafts of human identity into an island of hope for the common good of all who derive their being from you. Amen.
Friday in 5 Lent, March 22, 2024
God, the scream evils of war, hatred, and harm, seem to drown out the obvious fact that sustaining continues in life and death; you as Sustainer, are before, during, and after the appearance of every weal and woe on the stage of continuity; let us know that sustaining cannot never leave and let us not fear the changes which can occur upon your sustaining ground. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Lent, March 21, 2024
God, you are more than I can know or say you to be and it is fearful that you have the ability to be all things to all people. You become unknown, irrelevant, or a silly notion to many even while if you are All cannot ever be avoided; give us the wisdom to promote the obviousness of the connectedness of All rather than to make local liturgical practices the telling truth of your presence. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Lent, March 20,2024
Great Continually Surpassing God; give us the humility not to overestimate our knowledge or our power but give us courage not to underestimate what we can do in small things in our circumstances to contribute to future common good. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Lent, March 19, 2024
Give us, O God of beauty, the ability to appreciate both the simple and the complex, and know when we are abstracting unity from total number of occasions of becoming. Amen.
Monday in 5 Lent, March 18, 2024
Grant us strength to weather the increasing complexities of life because of the incredible proliferation of world knowledge; as old ways are being dissolved, let us find rafts of love and justice on the ocean of knowledge. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Lent, March 17, 2024
God of all possible language expressions, the co-existence of every expression creates the conditions for supreme irony such that the Cross of Jesus becomes a state of glory. Give us faith to uphold your ultimate irony upon everything such that what confronts us as impossible is reconciled within future outcomes. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Lent, March 16, 2024
God of all, invite everyone to the priesthood of lives being offered in solidarity with all as living sacrifices; and let our sacrifices promote love and justice in our world. Amen.
Friday in 4 Lent, March 15, 2024
God who makes history providence by outlasting all occasions by being continuous Becoming; the death of Jesus has become a spiritual process for us to die to what is unworthy and be renewed toward what is better. Help us to know the submission of our selfish egos for loving you and our neighbors. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Lent, March 14, 2024
Holy Spirit of God, we commit to you the impossible human task of making unity out of diversity; give us the wisdom of orchestrating differences into a harmony which can balance the simplicity of unity or oneness with the complexity of differences. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Lent, March 13, 2024
God of who inspires us to doubt any sense of final sufficiency; give us the humility of continual reappraisal of our values so that we might ever be looking for surpassing values on which we can model our personal identities. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Lent, March 12, 2024
Lord Jesus Christ, you were not saved from death, even as we are not either; give us the hope of endless continuity so that we can have future time to make the baffling and present have a greater context for more graceful meanings. Amen.
Monday in 4 Lent, March 11, 2024
God of all, in our day Gentile means the "other" who have often been excluded from the salvation programs of society; give us the heart of Jesus to extend the welcome of love to all so that we might faithfully represent you as God of love. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Lent, March 10, 2024
Eternal Word, give us grace to inculcate the values learned from our inherited traditions, but give us open hearts to love beyond our tribal formation toward your love for everyone in the world. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Lent, March 9, 2024
Eternal Word, since our human life is founded and known because we have language, let us work to have the meaningful expressions of language in speaking, writing, and body language be witness to our best quest at living lives of love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 3 Lent, March 8, 2024
God who comprises the greatest collectivity of differences, you have placed us among different people with the task of living together well as it is known as justice for each member; give us the largesse of heart to live beyond the affinities of our own tribe as we seek for the categorical imperatives of love and justice for all. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Lent, March 7, 2024
Eternal Word of God, generating continuous meaningful occasions of becoming; let our new syntheses of meaning today integrate what has happened for us in ways that first help us to survive, then to act is better ways, and further to enhance the common good. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 6, 2024
God of grace, your mercy is abundant in the seeming endless chances that you give us by the continual sustaining of everything; give us light toward our continual improvement in the practice of love and justice let those who hurt the common good know that they are hurting themselves. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Lent, March 5, 2024
God of the future which will reinterpret the meanings of what we think we are experiencing now; give us grace to live without knowing the full implication of the outcomes of what we do now, and let us be bold about love and justice being our current motive and goal. Amen.
Monday in 3 Lent, March 4, 2024
Gracious God, we interpret the life of Jesus as your love for us in being completely with us, not to abolish freedom, but to give us the example of the direction that we are to choose to act with the deeds of our lives; grant us to honor the freedom of perfectability by becoming more loving and just in our actions today. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Lent, March 3, 2024
Gracious God who is the flowing life at the sub-molecular level of all, give us a wise connecting flow of our interior lives with the exterior lives so that peace, love, and justice might be the visible outcomes. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Lent, March 2, 2024
God who preserves by continuously being the compilation of all that is which retains all that has been; help us not to fear the loss of what has, is and will be the chief values of life, namely love and justice. Amen.
Friday in 2 Lent, March 1, 2024
God of the ever created great MORE, keep us humble about our importance in the great scheme of things and let us seek the perfection of completeness which comes from joining with others in the work of love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Lent, February 29, 2024
God of omnipresence, forgive us for limiting your presence to temples; and teach us that as the body of Jesus was a temple of your supreme presence, so too are our bodies, and in fact the body of the entire world which bears your glory. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Lent, February 28, 2024
Eternal Word, give us the wisdom of language use to appreciate the variety of discourses which pertain to the many ways of communicating what it is to be fully human; help us to avoid the falsehood of interpreting wrongly the nature of the language being used so that we might rightly defend the validity of spiritual discourse. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Lent, February 27, 2024
God of love and law, we thank you for law as it teaches us to love our neighbor as our selves and we ask for grace not to use our performance of our codes of law to imply that we are better than others. Amen.
Monday in 2 Lent, February 26, 2024
Eternal Word of God, you have made us in your image as languaged beings; give us the wisdom to articulate the discourses of our lives to the appropriate uses of the manifestation of the languages of spoken word, writing, and body language deeds. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Lent, February 25, 2024
God of all, forgive us for tolerating the tacit hypocrisy of our own favored communities while being so discerning of the faults of others; give us grace to continue in kindness as the hidden source of survival in the midst of seeming rampant and systematic oppression. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Lent, February 24, 2024
God in whom we live and move and have our being; we cannot see your boundaries and we often limit our love for only those with whom we have affinities; let your inclusive borders expand the direction of our love so that we might grow in our love for this world as you inclusively love this world. Amen.
Friday in 1 Lent, February 23, 2024
God, you inspire the mysticism of who have come to know an interior identity with Christ, let the higher power results of identity with the death and resurrection of Christ empower repentance in our personal lives so that what happens in our social lives manifests the excellence of love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Lent, February 22, 2024
God of all, help us to be global enough to commit to you the things over which we cannot directly control and help us to be very local in doing the immediate good in our power that we can do. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Lent, February 21, 2024
God of time, the before dies and is replaced with the after; give us wisdom to make every after a surpassing in excellent love and justice with what has gone before. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Lent, February 20, 2024
God who can be referred to as All; we don't enjoy everything which moves and has being within your Allness; give us the courage to influence the field of probabilities by overcoming evil with good. Amen.
Monday in 1 Lent, February 19, 2024
Jesus the Christ, we often would only want you to be the triumphant one and not the suffering one, even as we would rather not have to incorporate suffering into our life experience; give us grace to be able to embrace and survive all the probable things which may happen to us today. Amen.
Sunday, 1 Lent, February 18, 2024
God, you gave us Jesus to be for us the one who was bilingual in being what divinity would look like if it were limited in appearance to human experience; we thank you that Jesus was a witness of you inflicting yourself freely by being completely with us in temptation, suffering, and death and so incorporating all probability within the scope of your becoming. Give us grace to incorporate what may come to us and let subsequent meaning beyond what is happening now redeem us and let us know that we have been always already together in and for all. Amen.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
God, what will happen lies before us with a freedom that makes us both excited and trembling; help us to have wisdom to isolate from our past and current experience the ability to embrace what might happen to us next. Amen.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Gracious God, give us grace to live with global things which we cannot directly change, but give us courage to accept the small but indirect acts of justice which can have eventual domino effects on the global level. Amen.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Bless our Lenten fasts, O God, with the result of impulse control which gives us the true freedom to practice the kind of justice to distribute enough to everyone in our world. Amen.
Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Gracious God, we know that our material existence can be reduced to ashes and recycled into the physical world; we ask that our sub-atomic life of spirit can be recycled into world as causative for future goodness as we leave irrefutable legacies of love and justice in the human chain of causation and let future good be a witness to our humble anonymity in being lost in the common good. Amen.
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