Prayers for Epiphany, 2026

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2026

God who is presented as creating by speaking, you first spoke light and there was light; give us enlightened word life following the one whom we call the Eternal Word and the Light of the World.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2026

Christ, the Light of the World, we need your continual Insights on how to live with love and justice and thwart the darkness of all who live disconnected with you and each other, and for us when we forget our connection with the Light of Love.  Amen.

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 8, 2026

Holy Spirit, you are the Salt of our lives who provides us to an unchanging oceanic identity on which to float the raft of our lesser and more frail identities in this changing world.  Help us to find our salt in preserving what is good, loving, merciful, and just in our world today.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 7, 2026

God of love and justice, give us wisdom to appraise the laws in our life beyond our nature cultural affinities which often codify narrow parochial behaviors as absolute; Give us humility not to simplify the complexity that is often involved in applying tough love and justice, especially to those who have not been given the freedom of knowing their own human dignity.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 6, 2026

Jesus Christ, you know that the unconscious can be polymorphously perverse requiring the fruit of self control to avoid acting out; create in us the deep clean heart of the Holy Spirit to help us to unite right being and right doing.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 5, 2026

Christ, the Light of the Word, make us lights for what is good, kind, and honest and make us salt to preserve in time the best ordered practices of love and justice for the human family.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2026

God, our interior life of many words seem to be an unordered chaos at times; give us the light of divine algorithms to retrieve the right combinations to bring to the public so as to edify in enlightening ways the public data base of the ways of justice, kindness, and love.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2026

God of Law and Order, not of rigid legalism to divide people into competing clubs; give us the insight of what is right within each contexts, some of which manifest what has been written shared in the wisdom of our communal codes, and some of which requires context specific wise and loving application to make justice and love manifest in the now.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2026

Christ, Light of the World, you call us to be light in living in ways that provides guidance for others to find insights for how to live with the complexities of what may probably happen to any of us at anytime.  Give us the wisdom of insightful living today.  Amen.

Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 1, 2026

God of comfort give us grace to minister to those who mourn today because of the injustices inflicted upon them, but give us courage to use our power and influence to establish justice as the normal conditions for living.  Amen.

3 Epiphany, January 31, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, your words of the Beatitudes present to us needy human states due to human inhumanity and the human condition and people in such experiences incur your blessing, perhaps not to desire such but to highlight them to draw the response of kindness from those who can resolve human need with human response.  Make us responders to the blessed conditions of human need today.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 30, 2026

God, whom we might see manifested as Intricate Greatness in the Fullness of all Nature, such that All Nature might be called Super Nature; we ponder with bafflement the differing nature of conflict in humans as more culpable volitional agents than all other non-human beings that also are inflicted with seeming oft conflicting functional systems, even predator/prey instinctually forced sacrificial practices; give to us who are higher volitional agents stewardship wisdom to counter the trend of the powerful to harm the weaker, and let us practice the equalizing force of justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 29, 2026

God, who called creation good; forgive us for creating the condition where many people are in distress and in harm's way; help us to find the blessed state of living for others and ourselves as we seek the perfecting harmony of justice for all.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2026

God of the oppressed, you are not such because you favor the conditions of oppression; rather you honor the integrity of freedom for moral validity even when humanity uses freedom to engage in oppression; continue to lure us to our better selves so that we might freely end all practice of oppression.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ of the Beatitudes, give us who have power and ability to work to end poverty, mourning, war, persecution, bad motives, hunger, unrighteousness, prejudice, cruel, and unforgiveness, and so make the Beatitudes unnecessary for people to live without oppression.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2026 (Conversion of St. Paul)

God of the heavenly vision of Christ to St. Paul, we thank you for converting his heart toward the largesse of accepting all into the family of God and so made being a child of God the default catholic reality for each human being to discover.  Amen.

Third Sunday after the Epiphany, January 25, 2026

God who has hidden our individual call to self-surpassing excellence within each of us by virtue of the immortal aspect of our inner selves; you have given us Jesus who arose in a particular time in our world to inspire us all to awaken to the always, already goodness of the God spot within us which can rise to our surfaces and direct our actions in love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 24, 2026

God, we find ourselves as becomers within your Great Omni-Becoming, sharing a degree of freedom for the ever impending future amid the many events over which we had no control; give us stewardship wisdom in the use of our freedom toward healing outcomes in our world.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 23, 2026

God of the truth of honesty, surely the Christ who is the Light of the World, is the one who is asking us to speak the light of honesty to the powerful in our world who would perpetually lie to promote their power to make their lying the foundation of their authority; give us courage to counter the lies of wrongly wielded power with the honest truth of the power of loving our neighbors as ourselves.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 22, 2026

God, who has called the church into being through the appearance of a divine Friend, Jesus, who instituted a succession of befriending which has become the various social realities of historical church bodies; make us faithful conduits of this befriending succession as we pass on the love and justice on within our time and places.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2026

God, named by us because we believe that the greatness of you as All can be funneled into partial knowing of you because you are with us in our limited contexts, give us ears to hear your call and test that call as valid as it inspires us in the way of doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly before you.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2026

God, mere fishermen discerned a call beyond their vocations which gave them a spiritual and social mobility far beyond their locations to bring them self-surprise in becoming bearers of good news; give the self-surprise of a sublime call beyond being locked into limited selfish behaviors so that we might bear the best of Christ-like insights to those who need them.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2026 (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday)

God of the prophets who are deemed radical for asserting kindness and justice for all as what is normal; give us eyes to see that you who are love require that actual justice must result from anyone who claims to be your lover.  Amen.

Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 18, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, you came to bear the existing metaphors of sacrifice in the early churches as known in their writings; we ask that sacrifice be not only metaphor of our lives but the practice in dying to our selfish selves so that we may live for each other in the practice of the common good.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 17, 2026

Jesus Christ, Epiphany of the divine in unique human being; you as a human person did not exhaust all epiphanies, rather you instigate the perpetual availability of further epiphanies within the mostly uncharted inner world of each person; let new epiphanies arise in us with results for love and justice in our world today.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 16, 2026

God, you know that what comprises the interior lives of all people is much more than what is manifest in the public arena; send your Spirit to be so manifest in the interior lives of so many people that the surface manifestations of Christ-like love and justice may become palpably evident in the life of our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 15, 2026

God of manifestation of your identity in language; we thank you for these fantastic interior events which have their credibility verified when we live more like Christ in having the divine manifestation within us morph into words and deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2026

Eternal Word of God, everything which becomes public is manifestation of language products but among everything that has been manifest the Christ has become standard of human excellence; give us wisdom to understand the excellence of Christ and to manifest Christ-likeness with our deeds.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2026

Jesus, Word of God, Spirit as a Word Cloud which penetrates the inner word life of humanity and give us a reconstituted internal order of peace, wisdom, and love; baptize us again with continual Word Clouds so that the internal lives of all can be given orientation toward peace, love, and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2026

Help us O God, to understand the principle of being living sacrifices as checking our egos within community to help us live well together; rid us of ancient notions of you as an angry God needing the death of people and animals as being required for forgiving the imperfections of people who cannot but be so on their path of learning continual self-surpassing in excellence.  Give us wisdom to accept grace as prevenient in your Being itself.  Amen.

First Sunday after the Epiphany, January 11, 2026 (The Baptism of our Lord)

God of the vital water to our human life; without it particularly and without You as All, we have no particular existence; we thank you for the gift of water as it sustains us, cleanses us, quenches our thirst, and serves as threshold symbol of initiation into the life of being made more Christ like.  Amen.

Saturday after the Epiphany, January 10, 2026

Grant O God and Parent of all that the baptized do not see baptism as fire insurance from some post life hell; rather let it be a family of all humanity event under your parentage as we celebrate one initiated into the reality of being a beloved child of God.  Amen.

Friday after the Epiphany, January 9, 2026

God, we have received Jesus Christ as the Exemplar that everything within the great Expanding Container of God cannot be separated from that Container; we also understand our error in thinking and acting as if we did not live and move in this large great Container of love and thereby commit deeds which instantiate the "as if" lying state of separation from you.  Give us the humility to live the best lives of harmony with you and each other.  Amen.

Thursday after the Epiphany, January 8, 2026

God of manifestations in knowable human language; we thank you that the completely foreign plenitude of your vastness is reduced into sublime insights of knowing not because we can exhaust you but we accept that your rays are a visible unity with you being our Sun.  Amen.

Wednesday after the Epiphany, January 7, 2026

Give us wisdom O God, to read the stars of our interior skies to be led to the interpretive place within us where we realize that the birth of Christ and realizing the image of God on our lives are the same thing event.  Amen.

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2026

God who is everywhere but for us needing to be unveiled as the original image of God upon us; we thank you for the Manifestation Event of Jesus Christ who is given to us as a way to know our optimal natures and serve as our optimal Exemplar of how to become fully human.  Amen.

Prayers for Epiphany, 2025

Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, March 4, 2025

God, let this eve of Lent not be one of silly excess in taking in too much of what should always be shared with those who have no chance of excess; but let it be a time of reflecting on strategies of how we might be better in the Christ command to love God and our neighbors.  Amen.

Monday after the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, March 3, 2025

Prepare us O God for the Lenten fast, when we begin to organize our lives to attain better timing in doing the things which are healthier for us and for more people in our world because we intentionally forsake selfish ways.  Amen.

Sunday, Last Sunday after the Epiphany, March 2, 2025

God, you are great enough to accrue and accumulate all becoming; you have the memory to retain all phases of our becoming and to transfigure us with the hope of recognizable continuity with our selves in future states even beyond the life which we see.  Give us hope to believe in the light of metamorphosis which can shine us into our future.  Amen.

Saturday in 7 Epiphany, March 1, 2025

God of transfiguring energy or inner Light in time, in wisdom you have given insights about our processual metamorphosis, and in that wisdom we can be given the gift of language, not as but collections of cultural tropes and traditions of word use, but the gift of knowing Word as what is eternal and abiding.  Let such a gift of language be ours today.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Epiphany, February 28, 2025

Christ, who told us to let our lights shine, let us surface the inner light of the high insights which pertain to the love and justice for the well being and common good of all people.  As you were transfigured by love, let us also be transfigured.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Epiphany, February 27, 2025

God, we are subjected to various phases in the procession of time and to the phase which we designate as after life;  we can only imagine an afterlife equivalent of the butterfly breaking out of a cocoon.  Grant us the hope of the reconfiguration of our life energy as beaming with light.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Epiphany, February 26, 2025

God whose omnipresence can be named as transfiguring processual sustaining life manifest as passing through the temporal phases of becoming; give us wisdom to orient ourselves to this train of time with faithful adjustments to what we are always becoming toward surpassing ourselves in excellence even if the scars of time seem to contradict that surpassing excellence.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Epiphany, February 25, 2025

God of the transfigured Christ, you remind us that phases are only temporary and we live in contrast of past phases with what is now even as it slips through our hands into what will be.  Even as with our use of language, we try to stop time, give us wisdom to reapply what we understand love and justice to have been in new ways now.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Epiphany, February 24, 2025

God, your have given us faith to deem the energy of entropy toward our seeming demise as the processual energy of metamorphosis toward the equivalent of our butterfly beings driven by an inner light; give us faith in the basic purposeful energy of life even while it is manifest in so many various phases of appearances.  Amen.

Sunday, 7 Epiphany, February 23, 2025

God, we crave the life of normal comfort when the heroic is not needed; steel our hearts for the time when the heroic is needed in the face of oppression and when we have the power give us the courage to prevent the oppression of others.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Epiphany, February 22, 2025

Befriending God, give us perpetual the Spirit of friendship so that all differences which are used to regard one another as enemies might cease; grant us grace to be befriending people as we seek common good.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Epiphany, February 21, 2025

God, the experience of people who have called upon you has often been in the time of oppression such that the beatitudes were generated to help people live winsomely during oppression; forgive us for guilty silence when we witness representative leaders openly commit us to cruelty or abandonment of marginalized persons and nations threatened by invaders wreaking devastation upon them.  Amen.

Thursday in 6 Epiphany, February 20, 2025

God, in Christ we understand your humility to be emptied into the particular, even the particulars of our life circumstances, but that emptiness is fullness because it is connected with everything, everywhere, all at once such that what is emptied into the particular can never be separated from the All.  Give us faith to hold onto the deep connectedness even when the particular experience seems to threaten us with lonely isolation, and more horrendously, the moral bankruptcy of a nation of people.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Epiphany, February 19, 2025

God, we pray for a world where the heroic lifestyle of the beatitudes were not required, a world where forgiveness was not needed, a world where persecution, oppression, and hatred did not exist.  Help us not to generate the meaning of You as the requirement of our anxious dread that if things can go wrong, they will.  Give us hope to to believe that we were made good and that goodness is the normalcy to which we are are called.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Epiphany, February 18, 2025

Jesus, your words ask of us the impossible to not judge and to always forgive while we possess language which is the very continuous classification and appraising phenomenon of living; give us grace to be open to bless those who once have known our condemnations, and forgive those who have hurt us badly so that reconciliation might be achieved as the healing of our world.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Epiphany, February 17, 2025

God, whose kindness can seem to be a weakness when woeful people are sustained while they wreak havoc on myriads of vulnerable people even if death eventually ends them; give us faith to believe in the arc of just correction at work in the goodness of the perpetual sustaining of all things.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Epiphany, February 16, 2025

Eternal Word, Divine Persuader and Rhetorician, expose to us how we are living lesser values by the revelation of your higher values which pertain to loving you beyond our own desires which create mere idols, and loving our neighbors who are oft messy as we are in needing perpetual patient love.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 15, 2025

Eternal Word who is God, you have imparted within us word ability wonderful and diverse to express the sublime and the mundane; give us grace and humility to recognize in our use of language we are instantiating our linguistic identity with you the Eternal Word, who inhabits anything that can be known.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 14, 2024

God, who is Love, your Valentine to us is more than chocolate or flowers and it is not fickleness of affinity or desire; it is the continuous sustaining of us and all in all of the genuine freedom which comprises the probabilities of life; help us to funnel your generous sustaining love into acts of justice love for all.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 13, 2025

God of liberation, let us call our lives blessed when we are active to overcome poverty, hunger, prejudice, and sadness in our world; and let us know that it is better for us to experience such deprivations than to be those who actually cause the same for others.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 12, 2025

God, free the wealthy from the woes of possession being what controls and possesses them; give them the joy of selling what they have and giving to the poor to follow their Christ-like better angels.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2025

Blessed Jesus, you left us words of the beatitudes to remind us that we forever have room to grow towards what is perfect; give us strength to work to keep people from needing to know an adjusting blessedness to the conditions of poverty, sorrow, war and conflict, persecution, hunger, thirst,  and marginalization.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2025

God of all conditions, help us to know how we are blessed when we are poor or bereft of the conditions which seem to define a normal standard of living; give us grace to be strongly poor with all who are poor because of the patterns of blind greed of people who do not tend to the common good.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2025

God of Hope, hope is our calling and the accompanying analgesic for our faith which does not yet see hope's utopia; and if hope is our pain killer, let the prayers and work of love and justice be what tires us out each day.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 8, 2025

God who has made us to be people persons because we are born and constituted by and with people; help us in our peopling behaviors so as to draw out of each one the best gifts for the common good. Let this continual mutual gift exchange be our perpetual calling.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 7, 2025

Give ears to hear your Call O God, eyes to see your message and a willingness to heed, especially if it asks of us something outside our heretofore comfort zone.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 6, 2025

God who beckons and calls in the Mystery of what we do not yet know; let your Mystery be made known in the manifestations of love and justice to us and through us.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 5, 2025

God, who is Wild beyond our attempts at domesticating you in presentations done mainly for the administration of people for the convenience of an imposed social order; give us insightful orientation toward everything that is happening with the appropriate filters of doing love and justice in actual ways with each other.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2025

God, the infinite diversity of your omnipresence is the seeming negligible hum of the universe which resides beyond our range and does not give us in our smallness the ability to comprehend such greatness; give us we pray enlightened apparent intercourse with tangible and close encounters which unveil in specific events of our lives your incognito presence.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2025

When O God, when will the rich be sent away empty, and the lowly lifted up?  Give us grace O God to be the underground care-givers of those who are lowly because of the neglect of the wealthy and powerful who do not subscribe to the Christ words to whom much is given, much is required.  Amen.

Sunday, The Presentation of our Lord, February 2, 2025

God our birthing parent of the Absolute Plenitudinous Past; you emptied the witness of your presence into Jesus and he was presented to his specific community in his time and place; let us be presented too to you in our specific times and places so that our humanity might be redeemed in knowing our always already connection with the inner Divinity of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Epiphany, February 1, 2025

God who empties into weakness in the actual situations of freedom when the greedy and powerful oppress the weak because they have the freedom to do so; we fear the awesome freedom which makes morality valid and enhances the experience of justice when it is realized.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 31, 2025

God who has given us language to encode our existence and knowing of it; we find ourselves often encoded with the limitations of our time and place influences when we seem to be but the unthinking pawns of known and unknown habits of bias which prevent us from successful acts of charity; give us grace to expand our cultural codes to love's standard of loving our neighbor as our themselves.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 30, 2025

God, whom we are prone to forget because we are so locked into our provincial ghettos; let our rituals of remembrance be for us an invocation of your presence and blessing upon the specific rites of passage through which we transverse on our way to becoming holy humans.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 29, 2025

God, the great expanding Container of All; all belong to you even though all do recognize such; help us to realize that we all belong together and we are challenged with living together in the best possible way for the common good of all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2025

God of Time and of our aging, we adopt rituals of remembering You in the times of our lives, so that among all that is lost in the process of time, we can retain community identity bearing our highest values of the love of You and our neighbors.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2025

God who is the Great Expanding Container of All in Time; grant that what we add in freedom to the over-all becoming of all that is be works of love, mercy, justice, and kindness and so help to determine a better future.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2025

Good God, whom we confess that you have made us good; we confess that we have not lived up to our original goodness even to descend into acts of incredible inhumanity; we thank you for allowing Jesus to arise in our history as an example and as a grace to restore toward our original goodness and toward a hard won future holy goodness.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 25, 2025 (Conversion of St. Paul)

Holy Spirit, you are the dynamic presence of God in the process of history; through you we came to have the paradigm shift arising in the ministry of Paul, who wrote the Gentile people into the line of salvation history; give us grace to invite continuously those who have been deprived of the knowledge of their full inclusion in the family of God.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 24, 2025

At some point we as language users came to call you God, or the one who used language to create by making word the flesh of existence; and from our experience of delight we have posited an original goodness even in the midst of the freedom for some things to be awful; give us grace to embrace the goodness of the good news which Jesus came to reinforce as what is the most appropriate representation of the original delight.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 23, 2025

God, whom we have come to deem as a Language Originator; with language and faith we have come to deem our existence as good, even when we have behaved badly and when the clashes in the conflicts in nature often put us in harms way; give us grace to believe in original goodness and empower us to preach the good news which was so exemplified in the life of Jesus.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 22, 2025

God, who often seems incognito in the non-apparent; when greed and evil intent seem to have become the apparent public norm such that they have overturn values of truth, keep us faithful in the oft unseen works of kindness, love, justice, and mercy.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2025

God of all probabilities, the presence of so many circumstances of bad news in our world cries out for the good news of healing, sight, peace, love, and the overcoming of greed with a great Spirit of generosity; grant us good news especially to those who are devastated by the bad news of their froward circumstances.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2025 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

While violence was practiced against his people, O God, you raised up Martin Luther King, Jr., to practice non-violence in trusting that the innate naturalness of love and justice could win the hearts of those who claimed religion but practiced oppression; help us to continue in the work of Dr. King, following Jesus to bend the arc of history toward a more perfect justice for all.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2025

God, you have blessed the human community with innumerable gifts and where they are exercised with wisdom and love, they promote the common good; confuse the gifts of the powerful and the greedy O God, and let the collateral gleanings of their selfish foolishness redound to the benefit of those who are in need.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 18, 2025 (Confession of Peter, beginning week of Prayer for Christian Unity)

God, we acknowledge that Christians seem often to be persons divided by confessing a common Messiah; give us wisdom to seek the more significant unity in pursuing outcomes of love and justice for all people in our world.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 17, 2025

Omni-present God, we often wish that omni-present sustenance of all were more discriminating in what is being sustained as we observe that everything that has happened has the proof of having been sustained, even by the divine omni-presence;  we ask for fearful respect for the genuine freedom which we have in shaping how our world is sustained and help us shape the world toward love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 16, 2025

God of all and in all, individualize the signs of your presence to as many a possible so that our world can survive and be sustained in peace and care for one another.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 15, 2025

God, how can we know your signs unless we first know the codes and translations of what a sign of you would be?  You gave us Jesus as the chief sign revealer of how to be humanly best in knowing the sign of what is divinely human and what is humanly divine.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2025

God you have given us Christly presence as the power of imagination to supplement the seeming ordinary water of life and make it seem like an extraordinary feast such that others think we drink the elixir of wine, but we must confess that we are Holy Spirited people.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2025

God, we like Mary, seek for the Christ to be in the mundane of our lives akin to dealing with shortage of wine at a wedding party; and even though in rebuke of our trivial priorities, we may hear a sigh of "what does that have to do with the higher priorities of the Risen Christ," we thank you for being involved in the child-like ordinary stuff of our lives.  Amen.

Sunday, 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2025 The Baptism of Our Lord

Eternal Word of God, you are coming to full solidarity with all humans in all human experience, and we commemorate your baptism as a event of the solidarity of the divine life with us, thus affirming ways of being human as valid ways to come to know what is more than human, even God as the Great Expanding Container of Life.  Amen.

Saturday after the Epiphany, January 11, 2025

God of Water, Wind, and Fire; who cleanses, quenches, breathes life, and warms and gives light; save us from floods and hurricanes, tornadoes, and devastating fires, and bring us renewing and rebuilding resilience when we know the worst effects of being caught in harms way of nature.  Amen.

 Friday after the Epiphany, January 10, 2025

God, the Container of All, into whom we have all been initiated by being born; we thank you for specific baptism and being received into particular communities of faith so as to continuously remind ourselves that you in Jesus represent the divine with us in such complete solidarity as to allow us to regard our paths as being valid ways of affirming our relationship in and through You.  Amen.

Thursday after the Epiphany, January 9, 2025

Forgive us God of all, for wanting the name of being a Christian country, or Christian community without manifesting the basics of being Christ-like in loving you and our neighbor as ourselves.  Amen.

Wednesday after the Epiphany, January 8, 2025

Eternal Word of God, giver of language which gives us ritual process within community; you became baptized by John to express solidarity with humanity in a particular moment of time and in becoming one with us you now invite us to become one with you in your Risen State in our baptismal states of becoming more Christ-like.  Amen.

Tuesday after the Epiphany, January 7, 2025

God of Omni-Manifestations, your omnipresence often obscures specificity to be known in personal ways; we thank you for the personality of Christ who is human enough to allow us to reduce you to anthropomorphic ways to perceiving your relevance to us in our specific situations.  Amen.

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2025 

God, who existed before our calendars to observe your manifestations to us; we recognize that the Christ nature came from the beginning and came in Jesus, and will continue to come as the Light which enlightens toward the surpassing goals of enlightenment to which we are called; give us grace to adjust our seeing behaviors to the light of Christ today.  Amen.

Prayers for Epiphany, 2024

Tuesday in Last Epiphany, February 13, 2024 (Shrove Tuesday)

Steel our hearts, O God, on this eve of our Lenten fast and teach us the positive discipline of converting energy by taking on tasks of justice and kindness to replace habits of indulgence, and so integrate and make permanent new habits of grace for the Easter season.  Amen.

Monday in Last Epiphany, February 12, 2024

Gracious God, worthy of praise, we prepare to fast from using a defining word of praise not because it does not apply, but as a practice in penting up our energies for a greater release in our praise on Easter Day.  Amen.

Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 11, 2024

God of Light, would that the peoples of the entire world would experience a tsunami of inward light, not to blind or remove freedom, but to inform us toward the best ways of peaceful harmony.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2024

Eternal Word, move deeply within us in the very deep word structures of our inward lives where dwells the springs of our volition and let our deep words be re-scripted to comport our body language with deeds of kindness and justice, and let our language performance in speech and writing evoke your sublime presence.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2024

Eternal Word of God, in having words we ask for the wisdom of good word arrangement in content and style so that we can have our interior lives shuffled in a way that what we call light or enlightenment occurs.  And in you as Word, we see you as the Light which is enhanced wisdom in how our lives are ordered by the words of our life.  Give us all more experiences of light in the ordering of our lives by and through words.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2024

God, we would want to confess you as the categorical imperative, as that which is universally recommendable, and yet we can only do so from such limited locations in space and time meaning that we do not have the appropriate capacity to speak with precise experiential knowledge about you.  But we can have the humility to always confess a expansive MORE than we or anyone has, can, or will know.  And we take liberty to project upon the great MORE love and justice as the best intentions of existence.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2024

Christ, Light of the World, Word of words; would that you could or would flood the interior worlds of all people so that we could together see our way toward acting out the requirements of love, kindness, and peace with each other.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2024

Christ of the Transfiguration, light is the fitting metaphor for the ability to see in a different way to enable a different kind of discourse; grant to us the ability to see poetically so as to add moral and ethically seeing to the scientific materialistic discourse which we cherish for wisdom in everyday commonsense living.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 5, 2024

God of the cycles in nature, give us grace to learn in the spiraling advancing repetitions of our lives, and let us remember the butterfly moments so as to survive and learn in the phases between the releases from our dark nights of soul.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 4, 2024

God, we exist in many states of health on this side of the event of our deaths; let us not be too religiously preoccupied with health after our deaths that we neglect the many health needs of people who are living, especially the great health needs of adequate food, clothing, and shelter.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2024

God of us who are people with unavoidable favorites; give us wisdom to accept the justice of everyone being exceptional even while everyone is required to be on their path of always surpassing themselves in love and justice.  Give us humility to accept the esteem of being loved even while we offer that esteem to all with the requirement that all us are on the educational program of repentance.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2024

God, we thank you for preserving forever the Holy Mystery of the Negligible which baffles our accuracy of prediction and precision in knowing all causality; give us courage in doing what we know to be just and kind to others even while we respect the sunlight of sustenance with falls upon the just and unjust proving that mercies prevails even for the unjust and means that God's love is also our judgment.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2024

God of today, we awaken to create in the now all that has gone before because it is born in contrast with the newness of the now; let us be good stewards and interpreters of the memorial traces of what has gone before and act in good actuarial wisdom for a better future.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2024

God of epiphanies, you continue to provide new insights in new times as people seek to apply what love and justice means for people in various situations today.  Give us grace to repent toward what is true kindness to all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2024

God of health and salvation; give us grace to perceive the limits of health in time when the aging effects are inevitable because of the eventual entropy of death; let the terminus point of death inspire us to add quality to life while we live and give us the faith to leave legacies of love and justice in this world.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 29, 2024

God, the work of Adam was naming signifying our vocation in language; we have generated naming traditions for everything inside us and outside us, states and conditions, and we have come to prefer peace, love, and justice because we have also had to name war, terror, and cruelty.  Give us cause today to name peace and justice as the experience for more and more people today.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 28, 2024

O Whispering Spirit, the interior lives of billions of people need to be whispered for manifold peace to be realized and we beseech you to do irresistible peace whispering to the chaotic interiors which cause the acting out of the selfish conflicts of war.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2024

God of peace, grant this world a massive interior wave of peace within the restless hearts of billions of people and so change us from within that we might conform our exterior world to habits of peace.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2024

God of freedom, shared in portions with all, help us not to minimize the significance of our limited freedom in the seemingly small and consistent acts of kindness which can drip forth from us to gradually erode the presence of evil in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 25, 2025

Lord Jesus Christ, you are a people whisperer to those who inward lives are troubled; help us to learn how to whisper people to receive the renewal of right spirits within their lives.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2024

God, we accept our place in a very limited location within the greatness of Plenitude; let our ecological words and deed create concentric effects of love and justice as we endeavor to send energy of kindness into the future.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2024

Great One, help us not to discount the value of our smallness in the deeds of kindness which can preserve the future of goodness in our world.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 22, 2024

Eternal Word of God, move over the interior springs where language arises to constitute spoken word and acted out deeds; let your angels of coherent messaging tame the diabolic incoherent chaos of our interior language going awry, and let us act out messages of justice and peace.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 21, 2024

God of epiphanies, grant to us new awakenings which help us in our practice of love and justice as we have our heart stretch to extend empathy to more people. 
Amen.

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2024

God of justice, give us wisdom and grace to change things in the direction of a more perfect expression of justice when it become evident of continuing in the sins of our inherited less than just cultural practices.  Give us honesty about our traditions when they do not exemplify love for all.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2024

God, you continuously adjust to everything in Time by including the ever happening new occasions; give us grace to adjust to the new that is happening while not passively accepting injustice but actively working to overcome the evil of injustice with reparative good.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 18, 2024

God of Time and creative advance, with Jesus, Peter, and Paul significant innovation was processed to articulate divine love in new situation for more people; give us insights and wisdom to continue to articulate divine love for more people so as to let all no that no one is excluded from your grace.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2024

God who is always calling, help us to discover our calls as the gifts given to us to release our best creativity and benefit us to live together with love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2024

Jesus Christ, you called fisher folk and gave them a spiritual and social mobility that they never dreamed possible, taking a very rural Peter to the great city of Rome; let your call to each of us surprise us by taking us to places we never dreamed possible, especially as it means using us to surprise others in their adventurous callings.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 15, 2024 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

God, you raise up prophets to speak truth to power when the powerful are neglecting the obvious dignity which is due to each human being; give us courage to resist the creeping selfish powerful who through greed and oppression prohibit the full practice of justice.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 14, 2024

Christ, the are the eternal Word, through which all things come to have known being; let your angelic specific word messengers come to awareness upon this vast ladder continuum of possible words and let these specific angelic words constitute our lives in love and justice today.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2024

Christ, the eternal Word, you manifest your word in all the images of our vision and forgive us for misperceiving what we see; let us grow up to have corrective lenses of wisdom help us to see aright.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2023

Christ, being Word, you are the manifestation of the central meaning of humanity, namely, language using beings; we cannot understand having being without being first constituted by word and we seek wisdom in living and moving and having our being as knowers in language; give us the wisdom of knowing always the better value choices to make in a world of vast differences and let our better value choices be in the service of the values of love and justice today.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2024

Christ the Word, you are the Ladder from the interior word on which the angelic messenger words proceed; help us to discern the very best and telling Christ-like words to constitute the speech and actions of our lives in the practice of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2024

God of truth, help us to live with the honesty of who we are and what we have done, even when the sum total of the occasions of our lives can never and should never be on public display; give us the honesty of knowing fully what we might do and be so as to live with forgiveness toward others.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 9, 2024

God, on whom we project the great purposes of plenitude; we thank you that each person can find specific purpose in life which becomes their call to know the joy of personal creativity on behalf of creative advance for love, knowledge, and justice within the human community.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 8, 2024

Gracious God, give us wisdom to model what is truly excellent in justice from the witness of people in the past and give us courage to reject things that were regarded as true simply because everyone was doing it; and grant that the witness which we leave for people of the future be behaviors which are lastingly worth imitating.  Amen.

Sunday, 1 Epiphany, January 7, 2024

God of all, why did we need an Epiphany to tell us that you are manifested to everyone by an inside job in storing your image within everyone?  We thank you for the witness of the Risen Christ to make manifest what has always already been for all people as children of God.  Amen.

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2024

God of all possibilities, let us be lured by possible love and goodness to be manifest in actual words and deeds of love and goodness and so make the Epiphany of Christ and Christ-likeness a current event in our lives.  Amen.