Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025
Thy Death, O Jesus, is seen as an end of the pain from the flogging, the pierced hands and feet and side, and but a temporary rest for your body in a sepulcher; we reverence the three day state of your liminality before your many reappearances in becoming known as the Risen Christ as all, and in all. Amen.
Good Friday, April 18, 2025
God, we require intoxication with Hope to call this day Good; and child-like giddiness to say that all manner of things will be well indeed. Give us the faith to interweave hope with loving and just actions with the harsh reality of what the oppressive forces and their pawns, even ignorant ones are doing in our world today, and let us not use Hope falsely as an excuse for passive acceptance of tyranny. Amen.
Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2025
God, you gave us Jesus as exemplifying human hospitality and service; give us the strength to fulfill the actions of the Maundy Thursday event by embracing service for the feeding and care of those in our world who need it. Amen.
Wednesday in Holy Week, April 16, 2025
God, the eternal Word, be within us the invisible but actual source of initiation of language products of speech, writing, and body language which result in loving and just outcomes in our lives today. Amen.
Tuesday in Holy Week, April 15, 2025
God, among all the taxing requirements of living, let us pay the necessary requirement with gratitude what Jesus taught us, namely, love and service for the justice of the people of the world. Amen.
Monday in Holy Week, April 14, 2025
Give us grace, O God, to ponder this week the converting power of love, to convince people with wealth and power that greed and oppression are bad for their own lives, if not excruciating worse for those who are victims of their knowing and unknowing oppression. Give us a vision of perfection as the completeness of all knowing profound dignity. Amen.
Sunday, Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, April 13, 2025
Jesus the Christ, on this day we observe that crowds proclaimed you as a king who did not do preconceived kingly things; another crowd derided you about your non-kingly behavior in dying on the cross; and yet we accept the apparent foolishness of an apparent weak God dying within the freedom gone amuck in this world. And we must confess that God as shared Freedom is supreme. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Lent, April 12, 2025
God who encompasses all probabilities; we are subject to the intermittent events of sorrow and joy, sometimes combined in ways which require faith to live with such ambiguity; give us realism about life's ambiguities but let us privilege joy as our ministering task to help those who are brought to events of sorrow. Amen.
Friday in 5 Lent, April 11, 2025
Jesus, our spiritual poets say that you are God emptied into human experience, even the human experience of death; give us faith to accept that God is with us through everything even in the sustenance for even the conditions of death to occur, but let us know how to be with each other with human comfort in the inevitability of loss. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Lent, April 10, 2025
God, we have made the death of Jesus the greatest death to promote his afterlife as the invitation to the greatest afterlife; give us grace and humility to live with the knowledge of death and afterlife, not presuming to know too much, but simply embrace that we are all together in life and death. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Lent, April 9, 2025
God of Life who encompasses in time our lives and deaths, we posit you as more than than our lives and deaths because your Plenitude precedes and follows the duration of our lives; if birth and death are the bookends of our stories, let us cherish them with qualitative living that is known in practice as love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Lent, April 8, 2025
God of Life which includes death, including the death of Jesus which defied actuarial life expectancy logic; cruel oppression which creates untimely deaths is part of the mystery of evil that we are forced to adjust to and even resurrection as acceptance of death does not erase the events of losses which we have felt as we cling in faith to a future which will convince us that everything in the past has been meaningful and purposeful in having fulfilled its unique contribution to a better future. And yet we ask how can a better future actually remove the extreme pain of the past loss except that it is ended and over? But will memories ever be healed? Is it enough to say that because I felt hurt, it let me know that I was truly alive? Amen.
Monday in 5 Lent, April 7,2025
God, we live with the apocalypse of death to come to each of us; and death has as many meanings as there are people and moments in time; we thank you that you are Life which encompasses deaths in time and within your great Life we look for continual meanings of everything which ends. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Lent, April 6, 2025
Great plenitudinous Container of All, we are born within you to live as perpetually baffled ones because of our smallness; in pride we often conflate the analogies from our circumstances to be true of the whole and yet we accept our tropes of language to be meaningful within the meaning of the entire linguistic universe which perpetually deconstructs our words which ripple to the edge of all that have been said and done. We offer you today humility because we have no other truthful status. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Lent, April 5, 2025
Everlasting Word of God, give repetition to the words which help to script the lives of all to instantiate Christ-likeness with speaking, writing, and acted out body language deeds of love and justice. Let the words of the propaganda of evil greed be thwarted by reconstituting words of goodness. Amen.
Friday in 4 Lent, April 4, 2025 (The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
God, our minds play a what if game today, in asking what if Martin Luther King, Jr., who died on this day at the age of 39, had lived to a normal life expectancy? We thank you God for what Dr. King has inspired even as we mourn the conditions which brought his early death and the conditions which persist in our world of not yet living up to our ideals of equal justice under the law. Give us courage not to compromise the ideals of justice that define our better angels. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Lent, April 3, 2025
Everlasting Word in space and time, writing needs space, speaking needs time, body language needs sequences of before and after; the potential linguistic universe will never be fully uttered, acted, or written; let us make the words in our time fill the script of times with words and deeds of love and kindness. Amen.
Wednesday, Wednesday in 4 Lent, April 2, 2025
God who encompasses the total community of everything; keep us from the mob esprit d'corp of being united to do wrong things as a group and falsely absolving us as individuals for that wrong; give us a group spirit for love and justice to do the very best for the greatest number of people. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Lent, April 1, 2025
God, give us the humility to not presume perfection today, and not to let perfectionism falsely accuse us for what we can't be; but give us the courage to affirm our perfectability as we are ever repenting toward being better today than yesterday. Amen.
Monday in 4 Lent, March 31, 2025
God whose love is excessive in magnifying seeming endless differences in the play of freedom in time; give us wisdom to apply excessive love in the works of love, mercy, and justice, toward the Christ who is buried within those who direly need love, mercy, and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Lent, March 30, 2025 (Sunday of the Parable of the Prodigal Son)
God, forgive our prodigal ways in being alienated from the divine image upon us, and forgive our judging ways when we think that we're your exclusive children and others are not. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Lent, March 29, 2025
God, of reconciliation, how can we hope and believe in ultimate reconciliation without minimizing the excruciating pain and suffering that occurs in individual events? Is the sum total of all occasions passive reconciliation by being a sheer quantity of events within a great Container? Can love accept that all pain and suffering have a surpassing future value? Give us faith to live in the seeming unreconciled events of this world. Amen.
Friday in 3 Lent, March 28, 2025
God, whose version of life we assume is all encompassing; let our limited versions of life be offered in humility for their obvious partial scope, but let them in small ways be part of the scaffold of love and justice in our world. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Lent, March 27, 2025
God, we often doubt that in our world of freedom with conflicting outcomes that reconciliation is even possible; yet we ask for the grace for insights into words and deeds of reconciliation which can promote the peace of living together well for the common good. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 26, 2025
Loving God, we seek to emulate you in being loving ourselves, even as we can be prodigal in wasting the gifts of life for ourselves and other, or we can proud that we are better than those we consider to be prodigal; give us willing hearts to respond to your love that our prodigal states of waste and our prideful judgments of others might end as we are converted to loving behaviors. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Lent, The Annunciation, March 25, 2025
God of Angels, personified messages and messengers; we name in story the high message to Mary to impart the importance of how we regard the impending birth of Christ into the world and into our inward lives; clarify freshly to us what the best mystery of our inward beings is as we continuously say, let it be, to the birthing of Christ in us. Amen.
Monday in 3 Lent, March 24, 2025
God, who being the Container of All means that we're all in this together; help us seek the harmony of reconciliation to be our goal in the constant work of taking what has been and making from it what can be more loving and just. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Lent, March 23, 2025
God, who is creative freedom, and who shares true freedom with everyone and everything in the world as a field of probabilities in play; help us to honor the gift of freedom in the degree that we have it with choices which influence the future field of probability toward love and justice. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Lent, March 22, 2025
God, whom we confess to be comprehending everything, everywhere, all at once, we only confess your Totality because we assume our particulars exist in a plethora of unknowable differences; give us humility to accept the minuscule partial perspectives which we parse in time sequences but let us not minimize our efforts to reflect what love and justice mean in action. Amen.
Friday in 2 Lent, March 21, 2025
God of Becoming in Time, let us regard our time as your loving patience to give us more opportunity to become our better selves particular in loving our neighbors as ourselves. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Lent, March 20, 2025
Eternal Word, in doing and becoming, we presume a birth into knowing and consciousness in having language; as we are thankful for having language as our image of the Eternal Word within us, give us grace to be so constituted by the language use in our lives that we may become words and body language deeds of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Lent, March 19, 2025
God of Time and in Time, we experience and process time in many ways, in cycles or spirals of repeating patterns, in seemingly simple linear cause and effect, in expansive webs of interrelating events, in branches of of different probabilities; and we can be so overly mystified by causality that we are tempted to passive fatalism; give us insight and courage to do the immediate acts of seeming justice and love before us and the grace of forgiveness if our motive for love and justice do not always result in the same. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Lent, March 18, 2025
Divine Patient One, you outlast everyone even while in omnipresence you bear the elasticity of becoming in time; we are becoming having our own eternality of being born from everything that pre-existed the phases of us and after our recognizable phases which come to language leave any state of recognition or memory, we submit to the mysterious kind of preservation that we can only have in your everlastingness. Amen.
Monday in 2 Lent, March 17, 2025
God, grant us humility to be honest about what we do not know about causality but give us courage and clarity to change the things at hand which foster the outcomes of love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, The Second Sunday in Lent, March 16, 2025
Jesus you lamented over the conditions of the Holy City and inspire us to lament over the needless killing which happens in our towns and cities throughout the world because of oppression and the greed which hinders us from practicing safety regarding the proliferation of harmful weapons on our streets. Give our lawmakers wisdom and courage to enact the policies of salvation known as best safe practices. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Lent, March 15, 2025
God, we somethings regard ourselves and our places to be so special as proof of your divine protection with us, and then we remember Jerusalem which has risen and fallen, risen and fallen; we ponder the religious justification for evil in public office as we are baffled by the probabilities of what can happen in the true freedom which allows the strong to trample the weak; we are ever seeking aftermaths when evils collide and allow goodness and kindness to squeeze through as the grout and mortar which preserves us into the future. Let us today be the mortar of sustaining goodness today, even if but barely visible. Amen.
Friday in 1 Lent, March 14, 2025
Great God, humanity is often like scattered chicks under attack by the preying foxes of life; provide us with mothering hen grace to shield and protect the vulnerable from the greedy and powerful forces of oppression of those who proclaim empathy as a fatal human fault. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Lent, March 13, 2025
God who is everlastingness, we humans often think that things seems to be so bad as to portend an end to sort out a final justice, are also those who know that joy can arrive in the morning when we don't expect it. Give us grace to continue to hope for an end to injustice, and the experience of joy in the morning for those who have suffered. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Lent, March 12, 2025
God, you have sent prophets to give us correction for behaviors of greed and oppression of the poor and greedy and oppressive people often kill them or their messages; do not let the mothering care for the vulnerable of this world be eliminated and let the conviction of to whom much is given, much is required become the practice for the common good. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Lent, March 11, 2025
Christ, you are presented under the metaphor of a mothering hen who wishes to shield and protect the weak, dependent, and vulnerable; give us such a mothering ministry in our world to nurture the vulnerable even into their own eventual mothering strength. Amen.
Monday in 1 Lent, March 10, 2025
God you are Duration Itself even as all that is not durable passes through phases of becoming and transforming in appearances at variable rates; give us courage to perform the durable deeds of love and justice which can replicate themselves in new forms in future events so that God as Love will know continuing manifestations. Amen.
Sunday, First Sunday in Lent, March 9, 2025
Strengthens us O God, as we resist the great inward accuser who would challenge that the image of God is upon us as children of God; give us wisdom to discern the diversion tactics that arise to delay or impede our growth into the maturity as people of love and justice. Amen.
First Saturday in Lent, March 8, 2025
Eternal Word of God, whose reservoir of words we have come to have access to in our interior lives; give us wise inner constitution of our words so that as we see through them we can organize our lives with the best timing in our lives to perform the works of love and justice for the common good. Amen.
First Friday in Lent, March 7, 2025
God whom we conceive of as the Omni-heroic; we confess our need for exemplary heroes who can help us find correct timing in our lives amid the maze of probable outcomes; we thank you for the heroic Jesus who exemplified apt timing in doing the right things in the right way and in the right motive for the love of the people of the world. Amen.
First Thursday in Lent, March 6, 2025
Jesus, we turn to you as the Christ in our interior wilderness who confronts the accuser and trickster within us who would have us mistime the goodness of life by doing things in the wrong way at the wrong time. Give us insights to resist the falsehoods which tempt us to call evil good, and good evil. Amen.
Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025
God of life which includes the demise event of death; we bear the ashes of remembrance of the passing of the remnants of bodies in their state before integrating with their environment even as we celebrate the invisible sustaining and recreating force which preserves with the accrual of an everlasting age all that has gone before. Let us cherish and steward life as we see and know it so that what is born from what is now will be enriched with the wise stewardship of our lives now. Amen.
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