The Twelfth Day of Christmas, January 5, 2026
God, the Giver of All, we thank you for the gifts which we have known during the 12 Days of observing the birthday of Jesus Christ; give us giving hearts toward those who need gifts for their sustenance and give those with power and wealth wisdom to accept the distribution actions which are required for all to have enough of health, education, and general welfare. Amen.
The Second Sunday after Christmas, January 4, 2026
God, we are placed in time as a journey of before and afters in quick succession of constant change and new differences with repetitive topical sameness; give us hope in our gradual entropic demise even as we contribute to the quality of the sum total of what is and will happen, and let us work to create future differences in better love and justice for this world. Amen.
The Tenth Day of Christmas, January 3, 2026
God, who has placed us in space that sometimes seems to be a maze of immensity in which we are lost; keep us from idolizing the local familiar and becoming such provincial thinkers that we fail to become travelers seeking self surpassing wider vision of what greatness can mean for us and for the people of the world in the practice of love and justice. Amen.
The Ninth Day of Christmas, January 2, 2026
God of Wisdom, luring us to be wise with good probability living; give us courage to travel far if necessary as magi looking for wherever the birth of the Christ nature can be realized within us in becoming the children of God of our original blessing. Amen.
Feast of the Holy Name, January 1, 2026
O Christ, you received the Holy Name of one who instantiated the nature of God as the one who saves in promoting wholistic health as the accompaniment for us during our lives and into our afterlives, let us also take your holy name as those who live for healing in this life which continually knows the signs of demise in time and let our lives of health live as memorials in our afterlives as evidence that we paid goodness forward with our examples. Amen.
Cleanse O Holy God, our perceptual fields of vision ladened with the many qualifiers of our version of what we see and know so that we might receive wisdom to hone our versions of life such that we become better practiced in the ways of love and justice. Amen.
God of Wisdom, give us open hearts to accept people who are foreign to us but make their quest for the birth of the divine one in their lives; let us acknowledge the validity of their long trek as they have read the heavenly path which is the constellation within their hearts to lead them find the original birth of the divine image within them and affirm them as your children. Amen.
God, we shudder at your non-intervention when the powerful can crush the innocent and vulnerable, and our shuddering is misdirected since it is humanities' willing inhumanity which terrifies us; let the powerful results of freedom used badly shock us into using the power of our freedom for the vocation of mutual and reciprocal care of all, and especially the vulnerable. Amen.
Christ whom we designate as Word from the beginning, the beginning of us knowing anything at all; give us wisdom in having the language which we have and the language which comes to have us in how our lives are coded to act in the messages of love and justice which we seek to live for the benefit of our world. Amen.
God, on whose ground arose the John's designation of Christ as the Word made flesh; give us wisdom to understand how the word has been made flesh through cultural coding and give us courage to become playwrights of our own life to interdict prior codes which do not befit the best of love and justice. Amen.
God of St. Stephen the Martyr, let dying to ourselves be our regular martyrdom as we put aside the selfish self in the service of others and fulfill the goal of being living sacrifices as our spiritual service. Amen.
Word made Flesh Jesus, we needed you to translate the sublime of the divine into human experience and understanding and to awaken the image of the divine on us but oft hidden, unknown, and not manifested; give us grace to know the magic of Christmas in awaking the divine upon our lives as it is proven when we walk humbly, desire mercy, and love justice. Amen.
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