Holy Saturday, April 4, 2026
Your entombment, O Christ, bespeaks the silent grief of profound loss, so profound for your friends that their perceptual veil would break and allow them to see you alive again in such substantial ways as to give birth to a great historical movement; reform this movement O Christ to remain true to your love and justice. Amen.
Good Friday, April 3, 2026
Lord Jesus Christ, we understand you as God's supreme representative instantiating the divine identity to the terminus of the human experience, even death itself; give us grace not to regard this as mere tolerance of human cruelty but a goad for us to continually work to end human cruelty in our world. Amen.
Maundy Thursday, April 2, 2026
Lord Jesus Christ, you commanded us to love one another in exemplary foot washing; give us grace to move our love from what we are supposed to be to what we are in the practice of our lives. Amen.
Wednesday in Holy Week, April 1, 2026
Christ, we embrace your Passion as the energy to tame the continual impulse to regard ourselves as unable to make room for others in the practice of the love and justice required for the dignity of all in our community; give us the self control of your Passion so that we might better serve the common good. Amen.
Tuesday in Holy Week, March 31, 2026
God, we are full of lamentations for our failure to care for each other and our earth; we have sinned against available creativity to equably distribute enough for everyone in the world to live well, and we resort often to war against each other rather than convert material wealth to deal with the natural harms which come to all. Have mercy upon us, O Christ. Amen.
Monday in Holy Week, March 30, 2026
God of the recurring pavement of Time, we seemingly retrace the grooves of memory again with the hope of coming to know the emptying reality of the death of Jesus as the divine identity with the human experience of loss, forsakenness, and seeming failure; give us the courage to integrate what has been horrifying into hearts of empathy arising from our survival to better serve those who called to the intermittent but certain experiences of loss, sadness, and failure. Amen.
Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, March 29, 2026
Christ, our King, in your Passion you exposed the absolute corruption of absolute earthly power when people presume to funnel ultimate power into their very limited expressions of selfish interest; keep us in touch with you our king of hearts where we receive your commission to use the power of life to generate the results of love and justice to distribute the great power of the divine to all the members of your great family. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Lent, March 28, 2026
On the eve of Holy Week, O God we are reminded about the profound inwardness of the Empire of God and that we are not called to imperial power but to service that often must be the kingdom of the divine incognito yet winsome when and where it needs to be for people who need love and justice. Let us not seek power except for the service of the common good. Amen.
Friday in 5 Lent, March 27, 2026
God, whose general incarnation is within the divine image upon us all in alway already assuming our flesh; keep us very earthly even while embracing the gravity defying hope lifting us to the constant vision of our better selves in the performance of love and justice. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Lent, March 26, 2026
Beyond the horror of crucifixion, O Lord Christ, we seek to find the spiritual power of dying to what is unworthy in the hatred and injustice which infects the world and often our hearts. Give us the continual power of ending unworthy habits of hatred and injustice. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Lent, March 25, 2026. The Annunciation
Today, O God, let our souls like Mary's be saying, "Here we are, let it be according to your word," even the birth of mysterious Christ image within us as the realization of our membership within the all-inclusive family of God. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Lent, March 24, 2026
Lord Jesus Christ, your death became the power of the grace of interdicting what we no longer want to do in order to embrace in resurrecting ways the new things that we desire in the cause of love and justice. Let us only glorify your death for the purposes of ending what is unworthy in our world. Amen.
Monday in 5 Lent, March 23, 2026
Eternal Word, though we cannot relive the past, the great words of the past can inspire and find our present lives as fertile soil for the promulgation of what is just and loving in new situations. Give us freedom from idolizing statues as museum pieces and give us boldness to update justice and love afresh. Amen.
Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2026
Christ, you are resurrection and life, even before we die as you provide the Word narrative for the future continuity of the continuing afterlife of Life as the memorial traces of us having absolutely existed. Give us courage to build future traces of love and justice to contribute excellence to the growing becoming of all things. Amen.
Saturday in 4 Lent, March 21, 2026
God of cycles, arriving at a time we call spring, we ponder the cycles of return and repetitions in our lives and we ask that we might do the tasks of loving and justice better in the new occasions which give us cause to be loving and just. Amen.
Friday in 4 Lent, March 20, 2026
God of preservation, time is the continual loss of what was even though traces are retained in uneven ways in our current lives; give us access to the needed traces of the past to provide insight for loving and just action in our lives now. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Lent, March 19, 2026
God of perpetual new life, we are always in anticipation for what we will yet become; give us hope that our future states will be surpassing ones given the entropy which seem to be diminishments of our quality of living. Give us trust in your reconstituting preservation of our best selves. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Lent, March 18, 2026
God of resurrections, of new life arising out of the life that has been; give us new life events as well as accept the hope default of human deep inner life as the sign of resurrection as a potential lifestyle. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Lent, March 17, 2026
God, we find ourselves bathed in inwardness registering things of sublime and things of terror, the agonistic and the ecstatic; give us grace to live with our inwardness as receptivity places of what arises from within and from without, and help us tame the inward toward acts of love and justice in our outer world. Amen.
Monday in 4 Lent, March 16, 2026
God, who does not taunt us with Hope; give us willingness to accept hope as the always already evidence of our continual participation in the MORE THAN reality of the life we call divine as we confess hope is being encompassed by your perpetual greatness which continually expands the horizon. Let our contribution to this expansion be acts of love and justice. Amen.
Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 15, 2026
Creator God, you declared Light as your first creative act; we salute the very conditions for seeing with our physical eyes, even as we are grateful for the Christ nature being the condition for our spiritual sight and for the continual recovery from our inherited blindness. Keep us on the path of sight recovery. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Lent, March 14, 2026
God, our seeing is continuously coded by our interpretive filters of how to see meanings in life; give us continuous repentance to cleanse the doors of our perception so that we hone into the requirements of love and justice for the future well-being of the people of our world. Amen.
Friday in 3 Lent, March 13, 2026
Christ the Light and healer of the blind; we know that our sight is based upon the interior lens and filters through which we see what is happening to us and in our world; give us grace not only to cleans our interior lens from the fog of bias and smallness of heart so that we can have our vision expanded by the largesse of love's requirements. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Lent, March 12, 2026
Christ who is Light and Vision; keep us in perpetual recovery from our various ignorances of blindness to new obviousnesses; let us have continual new "Aha" moments when we see you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly in the the practice of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 11, 2026
God of creativity, who has shared creativity with us; forgive us for wrongly applying our creative gifts for merely short term selfish profit rather than for the common good for people in our world. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Lent, March 10, 2026
God, you are the Brilliant Light of Insight, which does not turn on because you are never off but only veiled by our own limited experience; give us the continuing ability to adjust our seeing capacity to take in more of your Light, even as we know that our capacity to see clearly is coupled with our efforts to love mercy, do justice, and walk humbly before you. Amen.
Monday in 3 Lent, March 9, 2026
God who presides over the continual renewal of our interpreting minds; give us continuous recovery from yesterday's ignorance which we called sight and now has become blindness because of further insights; give us the humility of being tentative about everything except the continual challenge of love and justice which does not allow us to say that yesterday was enough because of the new requirements for today. Amen.
Third Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2026
God, you are the Soil of Existence in which we grow and are connected with everything else even while we are aware of but a small fraction of the massive environment; give us wisdom to activate rightly the part of our growing which is our volition toward the fruitful outcomes of love and justice as our enduring contribution to our immediate environments. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Lent, March 7, 2026
God, whose unique Son Jesus, said was Spirit and that we must worship you in Spirit and truth; you are the invisible sub-atomic which breath and wind stand as metaphors for in appreciating the deep Mystery of life itself; give us the humility not to over privilege all the religious layers which we have come in our traditions to build up and often feign to replace you as deep Mystery. Amen.
Friday in 2 Lent, March 6, 2026
God you have given us the mission of prayer as a discourse to vote on the release of linguistic product with its heart energy to relate our very limited temporal situation with you as the Great Situation in whom we live and move and have our being. Give us persistence to couple our verbal and thought prayers with body language oblation prayers to be the active answer to the conditions for which we ask. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Lent, March 5, 2026
God of our prayers; we use prayer as a discourse in language to confess there is a great MORE than we can know or say that humbles us to but very limited contextual knowing of our world. Give us grace to accept the humble adequacy of what we can know as we attempt to live according to our confession about the supreme nature of God of All, namely Love, itself. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Lent, March 4, 2026
Christ, you have been poetically called, All and in All; and we cannot properly represent you with our very limited life experience and we ask for grace to accept the largesse of your ALLNESS as the never ending call for the expansion of love's requirements for us. Amen.
Tuesday in 2 Lent, March 3, 2026
God, You are known in Christ to be all and in all, and have omni-relevance; keep us from locking you into our small provincial understanding particular when they prevent us from offering the love and justice which surely resides as the inner potential of every human being. Amen.
Monday in 2 Lent, March 2, 2026
Holy Spirit, you are likened to an inner bubbling spring; grant us continual refreshment from you as what we name as the deepest invisible source of our lives, even sub-atomically renewing life, even that which appears to be death, because your eternally ever invisible Beneathness to everything. Amen.
Second Sunday in Lent, March 1, 2026
God of salvation health for our world; your love is inherent within life itself in the continuous promise for future life; help us to use the human volitional capacity to promote healing in our world as we move toward death; but let us exercise our ability with present action to be a future hidden cause of a better life. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Lent, February 28, 2026
Give us grace, O God, to fast from the will to power which does not include the protection of the vulnerable and give us wisdom and encourage to embrace the gifts of wealth, education, and personal ability for promotion of the common good of all, and especially those who lack the strength and advocacy to manifest their personal dignity within their communities. Amen.
Friday in 1 Lent, February 27, 2026
God, you invite us to the new birth which enables us to know you to love the world, and to love us; give us willingness to respond to your love by being those who find continuous strategies of love to accomplish the hard love of justice which allows the experience of dignity for everyone. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Lent, February 26, 2026
God of continuous new births; keep us open to new transforming events of mind in attaining better likeness to approximations to the practice of love and justice in our lives so that your love for this world might be instantiated in our actual conduct. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Lent, February 25, 2026
Eternal Word of God, give us literary minds to perceive the meanings of love and justice and give us literal courage to bring the high theories of love and justice to the very literal and material circumstances of the people in this world who need the justice of enough resources for quality of life. amen.
Tuesday in 1 Lent, February 24, 2026
God, who loves the world, we are given the very notion of love as definitive of what is best about describing you and the ideal virtue for living; give us the grit to leave the theory of love as a high ideal to get our hands dirty in making love evident in the reality of justice for as many people as we can, all the time. Amen.
Monday in 1 Lent, February 23, 2026
God, who is love, who loves the world and asks us to love you, our neighbors as ourselves; help us to love the world beyond human community with caring stewardship love so that we may leave it sustaining for those who come after us even as we use it now for distributive provision for the common good. Amen.
First Sunday in Lent, February 22, 2026
God, who is Freedom who contains within the Divine Sphere the host of free agents; we seek the wisdom of compatible timing among the many free agents the harmony of peace and the justice of each getting appropriate what is due in terms of dignity and love. Give us Lenten grace to resist the temptations of the mistimings of doing things at the wrong time in the wrong way. Amen.
Saturday after Ash Wednesday, February 21 2026
God of good timing and synchrony, give us the wisdom of doing all things in their right time and place that we might enjoy the gifts of life rather than feel guilty about our misuse and cause the grief of ill distributed resources of the world where too many people live without enough. Amen.
Friday after Ash Wednesday, February 20, 2026
God of hope, let us have Lenten hope to overcome the despair stemming from reasonable disillusionment, and let us not use comedy and scorn as a way to escape misanthropic passivity in the quest for a steady and incremental journey toward a better excellence in the practice of love and justice in our world. Amen.
Thursday after Ash Wednesday, February 19, 2026
God who gave us life as a discipline in betterment, give us grace to perfect our timing in doing what is right the causes of love and justice, and give us self control to employing fasting as a regulatory strategy in personal and social stewardship of the gifts of the earth. Amen.
Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026
God, whose memory can eventually reconstitute us in our more perfect selves, we contemplate today the future ashen state of our bodies as but a mortal phase before their disappearance into the invisible, the abode of hope and love; let us cherish our mortal phases by valuing life and adding value to life so that we might attain at last to become the invisible virtues for which we have aspired. Amen.