Creator God, you birthed us as humans in your image, and you have given special births to those through whom has come the message of your love, and you gave Jesus to Mary, even as you have overshadowed our lives with the Holy Spirit to birth the Risen Christ within us. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Advent, December 19, 2024
God, you conceive the life of the Risen Christ within people when they are overshadowed by the Holy Spirit; we ask that more such overshadowing would happen and be evident by the resulting peace on earth. Do not withhold manifold birthing experiences of Christ's presence from the people of this earth. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Advent, December 18, 2024
God of Hope, hopefulness has us wishing for things which never can be as the impossible always taunts the likely probable; but give us understanding about the meaning of our Hope implant to establish the direction of love and justice toward the better care of all. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Advent, December 17, 2024
Holy God of Mothers, you gave us Mary whose song is a song of liberation for all lowly people with the promise of what never seems visibly possible, of the mighty being cast down and the lowly lifted up. Give us faith in Hope's vision even when it never seems fully actual. Amen.
Monday in 3 Advent, December 16, 2024
God of Mothers Mary and Elizabeth; you have not limited the gifts of women to child-bearing and child raising but we often have; give our world the wisdom to promote the full development of all the gifts of women so that the common good can be better ably served. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Advent, December 15, 2024 (gaudete)
God of rejoicing anyway, rejoicing because of, rejoicing in spite of; we continually seek the deeper strains of the original blessing of existence which persists within and throughout all conditions of life because we can never be separated from you the great expanding Container of our lives. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Advent, December 14, 2024
God of perpetual advents, you are always coming to us in the continual sustaining of life itself; we thank you for the most apparent coming in Jesus Christ to initiate us into the way of love and justice in the world of free probabilities where hatred and injustice also has free reign. Amen.
Friday in 2 Advent, December 13, 2024
God of Hope, you inspire the utopian with many forms of visualizations so that we might always know the direction of perfection; keep us on this path and let us never proudly assume we have yet attained enough perfection to stop progressing or to judge others for not being where we are. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Advent, December 12, 2024
God, in all conditions of freedom, you have given us access to the Spirit of rejoicing in spite of seeming contrary conditions; give us boldness to embrace the vocation of actively trying to give others the occasion to rejoice in the very goodness of goodness. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Advent, December 11, 2024
Christ the Messiah, you are still the suffering servant Messiah in identity with the immense suffering and vulnerable conditions of so many in the world; give us wisdom, courage, and willingness to be messianic actors of kingly strength as we minister to alleviate pain in our world and help those who are vulnerable. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Advent, December 10, 2024
Christ the Messiah, you preside over the inward kingdom of those who discover that God is love and care for those who are vulnerable and needy; forgive us when we unwittingly over-identify you with the powerful and the greedy forces of society as proof of Christian success. Amen.
Monday in 2 Advent, December 9, 2024
Christ the Messiah in unexpected ways, teach us see the hidden messianic presence within the poor and vulnerable as the divine lure to draw us to assist in your messianic priorities for the common good of this world. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Advent, December 8, 2024
God, you have given us John the Baptist as the one who wants us prepared for catastrophic endings; but you have given us Jesus as the one who prepares us for the other side of endings, namely, the always already new beginnings in the everlastingness of Time. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Advent, December 7, 2024
God, you have given us the witness of John the Baptist to remind us that we have fasting ability, the ability to say no and yes on a path of perfectability and because he is voice of repentance, the hope of betterment always lies in each choice. Help us to embrace the path of renewing repentance today. Amen.
Friday in 1 Advent, December 6, 2024, Nicholas of Myra
Dear Christ Child and Nicholas, by the accident and the child aspect of everyone's life, you have become linked in popular culture; give us grace to treat children as gifts for our future and help us to nurture them with mentoring grace with plenty of affirming gifts for their social joy, intellectual and spiritual growth. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Advent, December 5, 2024
God, who has great Self Control, in not overriding the freedom in the world; give us fasting grace in the things that control us, and give us moderation in all things as it relates to sharing and promotion of sharing so that all might have enough. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Advent, December 4, 2024
Gracious God, teach us the fasting rhythms which we need for regulation in our lives that we might learn impulse control and be delivered from greed, gluttony, and all addictions which hinder the performance of the excellences of love, justice, and care for those who need it. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Advent, December 3, 2024
O Great Continuous One, your advents are always already happening even as we name as superior the specific coming of Jesus Christ as definitive for the direction of humanity to be led to surpass ourselves in excellence of goodness; give us grace to be on this Christly train toward perfection. Amen.
Monday in 1 Advent, December 2, 2024
God of continual processual Creation; we try to stop time by forcing the story units of beginning and ending on perpetual continuity; give us hope for new beginnings after actual endings, especially the ending of pain and injustice. Amen.
Sunday, 1 Advent, December 1, 2024
God, you give us as language users visions of the end of suffering and injustice because you want us to hold as normal life, health and justice; in times of suffering and injustice, let us continue to proclaim the normalcy of health and justice, and work in our realms to make approximations of the same actual. Amen.
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