Give us grace and humility O God, to admit the obvious of togetherness on the ground of Great Becoming; give us courage to express togetherness as the supreme harmony of justice allowing differences to be harmonized in perfect togetherness. Amen.
Friday in 7 Easter, June 6, 2025
Spirit of Life, give us enough clusters of harmony within human community to promote health, love, and justice as being what is most definitive of the divine will for how we are to live together. Give us wisdom and courage to choose these clusters of harmony. Amen.
Thursday in 7 Easter, June 5, 2025
O God, how can we know Unity and Oneness without the effects of Oneness? Give us grace to respond to the Oneness of All, with worded products of kind speech, wise writing, and body language deeds of justice, which is the perfection of harmony. Amen.
Wednesday in 7 Easter, June 4, 2025
God from whom the plenitudinous diversity was born and derived; coax us back to your Oneness as we in mystery know the mysterious depth of the Spirit as the Ground of Being before which any language or interpretation of the same can occur. Let your omnipresence which is always before our interpretation of the same lure us to deeds of love and justice today which are fitting to your Oneness. And forgive us any use of language which would deign to presume omni-competence. Amen.
Tuesday in 7 Easter, June 3, 2025
Holy Spirit, your Oneness is only known through love and love's outcomes; deliver us from confessing Trinitarian Oneness while not practicing the proof of such in loving behaviors. Amen.
Monday in 7 Easter, June 2, 2025
Holy God, we seek the operation of your oneness to be manifested in harmonious peace among the peoples of this earth; give us grace in our local situations to initiate continuously the peace of unity to collaterally effect our world and join with other local peace initiatives to spread the divine Shalom. Amen.
Sunday after the Ascension, June 1, 2025
Ascended Christ, you are the confession of the church about a mysterious place of the absence of Jesus to our eyesight; we thank you that as inapparent as you are to our eyesight, your apparency has now attained an inner presence within our bodies as temples of the Risen Christ. Amen.
Saturday, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, May 31, 2025
Gracious God, we thank you for the lodging behaviors of birthing women like Blessed Mary and Elizabeth whose experience of actual gestational oneness with another person gives them gifted insights into empathy with others which can heal our communities toward acceptance of the completeness of harmonious differences. Amen.
Friday after Ascension Day, May 30, 2025
Word Made Flesh Jesus, you became Flesh Made Word in the story of your Ascension; help us to ride the most apparent presence of the Divine in Jesus Christ into the invisible omni-Worded Christ as the All and in All as an interpretive practice of hope within the vast range of what may happen to us. Amen.
Thursday, Feast of the Ascension, May 29, 2025
Ascended Christ, when Jesus become out of sight, you did not become out of mind but you imparted another presence to awaken our interiors to our God-ward spark; let your absence to our sight inspire us to access the inward Christ and to act from divine compelling love. Amen.
Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 28, 2025
God of wisdom, in our attempts to accrue wisdom from our actual experience, keep us humbly expectant and willing to be open to the uncanny and the surprises which can reveal our complacent thinking we have been calling objective knowledge. Amen.
Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 27, 2025
Eternal Word, teach us how to use language appropriate to the occasion and to avoid confusions of codes for the various discourses, so that we don't say true things in lying ways, or lying things while hiding behind the natural respect and good will that people may want to afford us. Amen.
Monday in 6 Easter, May 26, 2025, Memorial Day, USA
God of the living and dead, those who have gone before us are the foundational past necessary being and they have coded us with the traces which they have left in our lives; we honor with thanksgiving those who have died and left us with legacies to inform the direction of our decision making now for the enhancement of the common good. Amen.
The Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 25, 2025
Manifestations of All at Once, let your wholeness exude toward us healing effects for situations of cruel war, hatred, and oppression, and let your wholeness coax everyone to a togetherness of the harmony of total mutual dignity of all people. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Easter, May 24, 2025
God, on whom we project language ability enough to be a language user and omnipresent conductive communicator; help us to be communicators to spread peace and justice in ways which will promote the healing of our world. Amen.
Friday in 5 Easter, May 23, 2025
God, whose strength of patience is perceived as weakness before freedom; we think that you should intervene to prevent innocent suffering and the bullying of the powerful of all sorts; it does not seem much consolation to know that evil and harm have a terminus date in time as too much harm occurs in the meantime. We patiently wait for the worth of true freedom for moral validity to proven as the supreme value in life. If freedom be the supreme value, let us and all freely chose love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Easter, May 22, 2025
O God of the Expanding Becoming Container of all, send the good ripples of echos from the expanding boundary throughout the whole and enable cataclysmic intervention in the evil trends of neglecting the expansive care for the greater common good of the world. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 21, 2025
O God, Send our world synchronies of peace and justice so that all might realize their gifts for the common good. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 20, 2025
Favor by protection from potential harm, O God, we remember those who do not have the favor of protection when they need it even as we don't under why everything that happens when it happens. Give us grace to live with life's bafflements. Amen.
Monday in 5 Easter, May 19, 2025
Protect and keep us this day from the storms of life, so that we might know safe and harmonious timing with what may happen. Let all manner of things be known to be well indeed today especially for those who do not have the knowledge, power, or wealth to preventatively avoid the harms of life. Amen.
The 5th Sunday of Easter, May 18, 2025
Grant O God of Love, that we might be known by our love, not as gushy feelings but as the tough practice of applied justice in giving each person their proper dignity in their immediate setting. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Easter, May 17, 2025
God who comprehends infinite diversity, you have given us language to enable story telling to give us definitive meaning and purpose on a continuum of being without differentiation save by the naming of words; give us grace to craft stories of love and justice within the many human clusters of community and let us found superlative meanings on love and justice in our clusters and be proverbial pebbles of justice hitting the waters of reality and influencing to the edge of all. Amen.
Friday in 4 Easter, May 16, 2025
Eternal Word, we cannot help but commit language products through and through; give us grace to be adept language user and help each to find their particular holy voice in articulating the very best of love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Easter, May 15, 2025
God of rushing profound Interiority; send irresistible love to the interior places of all people in apparent ways such that they would be convinced to commit themselves to justice and peace. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Easter, May 14, 2025
God of love, your love includes abundant freedom for learning and such freedom to learn often reveals that we hurt each other and the earth badly; give us hope that the lure of your love for us to surpass ourselves in excellence will not cease even when in the temporal cluster of our experience gloom seems to triumph. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Easter, May 13, 2025
Gracious Jesus, our identity with you is known through the practice of love; forgive us when we have failed both in our practice of love and in thus failing to instantiate our identity with you. Amen.
Monday in 4 Easter, May 12, 2025
God, you are the plentitude for us in being born into a human world of language such that all comes to some linguistic product which we name as thought, vision, spoken word, body deed, encoded environments, and from having access to endless interiority we confess you as the More of life; in humility we embrace ourselves as exponentially less than your More and we seek wisdom for the ordering of the small cluster within plenitude in which we are limited. Amen.
The 4th Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025
Eternal Word of God, be in us so that all our word products of thought, speech, writing, and body language might produce what is wisdom for each situation in our lives. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Easter, May 10, 2025
God, let us confess the universally recommendable loving our neighbor as ourselves as what is truly catholic about our church; give us grace to love beyond our administrative restrictions which often exclude people who have no chance of complying with our historically and culturally derived rules and let us never deny the God given dignity to those who are different from us. Amen.
Friday in 3 Easter, May 9, 2025
God who wants to be One Shepherd with one flock of humanity; you are challenged to encompass such a diversity of human sheep in the cultural differences and in the developmental maturity differences such that the forced cohabitation often results in chaos and discord; give us grace to accept our local unities of like mindedness but with open mindedness to those who differ significantly so that we might be influenced to broaden our capacity to love in better ways with more people. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Easter, May 8, 2025
Plenitudious One, it seems as though good and evil live as genetic viruses in the conditions of freedom while we hope for the winsomeness of goodness to be made our ultimate health; give to all the desire not to be repugnant in our behaviors to ourselves, to others, and to you. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Easter, May 7, 2024
God, we desire you to be most charming and irresistible in persuading all people of this world to the outcomes of peace and justice but would such a great seduction be a assault on our naive and ignorant freedom to persist in the chaos of competing free systems? We commit the mystery of the failure of your irresistability to the vital necessity of creative freedom and ask for courage to find immanent causes of love and justice as worthy of our constant efforts. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Easter, May 6, 2025
Christ as All and in All, the object of our ultimate metaphorical license; let us resist sweeping poetic license for you if we refuse to let your Christly values of love for our neighbors sweep over our words and deeds of life. Amen.
Monday in 3 Easter, May 5, 2025
God, the Good Shepherd of all, we often wish that you were a forceful and coercive shepherd in not allowing freedom, but your hands off permission for all things to freely happen challenges us to use our freedom responsibly for the benefit of all. Give us grace to learn how to be shepherd the freedoms of our lives. Amen.
Third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025
Restore us O Christ by your Risen presence so that we might rise from our failures to be our best, to continue with humility to refuse to label our imperfections as perfection, but steadily surpass ourselves in the graceful excellences which pertain to love and justice. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Easter, May 3, 2025
Jesus Christ of mercy, you show us that mercy is what we need in time not to achieve perfection as some final state of being but to fill out completeness in time; give us grace and wisdom to understand completeness as integrating confession, repentance, and forgiveness. Amen.
Friday in 2 Easter, May 2, 2025
Jesus Christ, you are presented to us as the Shepherd who came to teach shepherding, which is the use of knowledge, power, and position to help the vulnerable; help us to follow you in being those who rightly use our knowledge power, and wealth for lifting up of the vulnerable to their God-given dignity. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Easter, May 1, 2025
Risen Christ, your appearances achieve biblical stories not to limit them to but a privilege few but to invite us to bring to witness where the essence of the Risen Christ intersects our lives; give us boldness to acknowledge your presence wherever we find the actualization of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 30, 2025
Shepherd of our souls, you call us from groveling in our own self-disillusionment to use the energy of disappointment about our lack of perfection for shepherding those who need care, because the act of care takes our gaze from ourselves and channels the grace of your love. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 29, 2025
Risen Christ, you restored Peter who denied you as the story of how any of us can be ignorantly proud of abilities only to be confronted in our failure and experience self-disillusionment; give us like you gave Peter hope for rehabilitation and continuous forgiving grace with each other in community to walk in the path of surpassing ourselves in excellence. Amen.
Monday in 2 Easter, April 28, 2025
Show yourself again Risen Christ, in telling ways so that the inner revealed peace in the hearts of those who know your indwelling might be motivated for the work of peace which is needed to be worked in our world. Amen.
The Second Sunday of Easter, April 27, 2025
Risen Christ, doubting you at times is what we often do when you don't seem apparent because we prefer that you be known to us in only favorable things happening to us; thank you for returning to us in apparency so as to train us to remember that the sun of blessed presence still is shining even when the night of doubt darkens our life. Amen.
Easter Saturday, April 26, 2025
Eternal Word, language is loose like a raging fire within human communities; we don't control that we have language, but we are given by you significant freedom to filter the portals of what we take in and what we produce in speech, writing and body language. Give us grace to be playwrights and actors of justice and love in our performance of living. Amen.
Easter Friday, April 25, 2025
Give us awareness, O God, of the always already Risen Christ presences to us or we remain guilty of accusing you for short changing you for not giving us adequate God experiences because we compare our experiences as inferior to others. Let us have the grace to embrace the different but equal experience of Christ as all and in all. Amen.
Easter Thursday, April 24, 2025
Risen Christ, your many post-resurrections appearances to the billions who did not and have not seen Jesus affirms the mystical reality of our faith; give us humility not to make our own experience as reason to judge others whose experience is different than ours. Amen.
Easter Wednesday, April 23, 2025
God of hope, we ponder how our lives might be retained after the event of death, not because we think we deserve to live on after we die, but because hope's vision have given us such possibilities which leaves us feeling perpetually unfinished. Let us not be left in the regret of unfinished lives without the hope of further completeness. Amen.
Easter Tuesday, April 22, 2025, (Earth Day)
Forgive us Risen Christ, for presuming that only those who walked with Jesus had valid experiences of God while we think it is humble not to have significant spiritual experience with unopened eyes to your many presences to us always, everywhere especially on this beautiful diverse earth given to us to steward. Amen.
Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, Death of Pope Francis
We commend to your resurrection life, Francis, who gracefully switched the perspective of his family of faith from emphasizing dogmatic exclusion and appealed to the winsome love of Christ for all people in various states of not being perfect but who could be on the grace complemented perfectible path of becoming better at loving God and our neighbors. Amen.
Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025
Gracious Risen Lord, on this day we celebrate that you were known to have profound continuity with yourself after you had died at the hands of a crushing empire; give us joy in knowing that we have hopeful continuity with the everlastingness which you revealed. Amen.
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