Prayers for Pentecost, 2026

Friday after the Day of Pentecost, May 29, 2026

God grant us the wisdom to attend to the poor and the oppressed whom we see and know rather than to use our time arguing about what is the precise way to articulate a theological mystery which cannot be known.  Give us the insight not to replace the immediate practical with the inscrutable arcane. Amen.

Thursday after the Day of Pentecost, May 28, 2026

God beyond our analogical imaginations, give us the humility not to use the revelation of the Trinity to limit your vastness to our personal analogies; let us humbly admit our anthropomorphic prison even while we salute your as the MORE of life which permits the validity our our experience to perceive the horizon beyond our own limitations.  Amen.

Wednesday after the Day of Pentecost, May 27, 2026

Eternal Word, it has arisen in our language tradition to know you as we know ourselves to be, persons; we cannot be other than related to each other and know ourselves accordingly, and so we confess knowing our contextual personhood from the higher Personhood of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Tuesday after the Day of Pentecost, May 26, 2026

God of many Names, and whose names assumes personhoods, we reside in the tradition of the filtering of divinely named personhoods through a Trinitarian Prism so as to simplify infinite diversity through a relationship familial dynamism to know insightfully an acceptance of our human condition to be a valid way of knowing that we live and move and have our being within a Great Expanding Container with divinely immanent personhood Spirit to help us mutually conduct personal experience of each other within the divine milieu.  Give us grace to know this dynamic relationship environment best through the practice of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday after the Day of Pentecost, May 25, 2026 (Memorial Day, USA)

God of the perpetual living who preserves by reason of such being a quality of greatness; we remember those who laid down their lives for their friends exemplifying the greater love, and we look forward to the day when such greater love is not needed, even in the day of peaceful and loving care of each other.  Amen.

The Day of Pentecost, May 24, 2026

Holy Spirit of Unity, you offer the path of living well together in harmony within the great Container of the Divine and you are accessible ability for us end war and conflict; give us the humility to submit to the unity of harmony as we learn wisdom for the compatible mixture of differences for the common good.  Amen. 

Prayers for Easter, 2026

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 23, 2026

Resurrection and Life Person, make us resurrection and life people as we know our inwardness to be the evidence of our continuity with the continuous befores and afters of life and of the hope of our afterness after afterness; thank you for this Easter season of hope even as we seem to be dancing on the death of ancient beforeness.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 22, 2026

Holy Sophia, Spirit of God, who is wise mothering and nurturing hope for humanity; give us your nurturing wisdom to integrate the new times of our lives and the new people into our orbs so as to ever be growing as a family of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 21, 2026

We seek you O Spirit because the differences of life seem so much more prominent than the unity of being within the Great Divine Container; differences in time, place, and structure can make us believe that the forces of disintegration are greater than the magnet of unity to hold us into a harmony of peaceful co-existence in love and justice.  Give the continual inclination toward the Unity of Spirit.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 20, 2026

Wind and Breath of Unseen, Invisible, but sustaining life with obvious seen and felt effects; we ascribe to you O Wisdom Spirit, personality because having language means that we cannot avoid living in a personal universe of connected beings within your Great Being, itself.  Give us the wisdom of being personal as community participant in love and justice and rid us the alienation of thinking we are island individuals.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 19, 2026

Holy Spirit, you are great Magnet within all which hold us together in the Great Expanding Container of All; and because we have no choice but to be held together, help us to have wisdom to know how to be best held together with the results of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2026

Holy Spirit, we assume you as the omnipresence Entity which allows us to have mutual experience of each other since we are not isolated islands with vacuous emptiness; give us grace to work on inherent connection with each other as it is best known in love and justice.  Amen.

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2026

Through your Ascension O Christ, we acknowledge another mode of your presence as the particular intense divine presence in Jesus was given for us to eventually know Christ as all and in all.  Give us eyes to see God's anointed presence everywhere.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 16, 2026

Give us grace O God, to know you as our inner Parent who helps us through divine Word therapy to organize our inner linguistic lives so as to be able to bring a harmonic order to the oft chaotic settings of our lives; enlighten us with strategies of love and justice to instantiate the desired harmonies for living.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Easter, May 15, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, help us to live well from our inwardly constituted lives through the imprint of our language such that we will launder our words through intercessory prayer following the example of Jesus who prayed for this world.  Amen.

Ascension Day, May 14, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, you are gone from visible status to the invisible inner world with a different kind of accessibility to all who to live according to the divine image upon them as children of God; may we ride you as an elevator to the higher values of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 13, 2026

God who is best known in the obvious closeness of our inner space; Jesus Christ arose in our history to give us an example of how to live with the vastness of the divine of our inner space so as to know you there as a nurturing parent and not as the chaos of being overwhelmed by vastness.  Help us to organize through wise naming our interior experience as divine parenting.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 12, 2026

Emmanuel, God with us, thank you for being in the complete intercessory role with us among the best and the worst of what the field of freedom generates in actually human conditions; forgive us for wanting you to be but an intervener on our behalf rather than as a support for living with what actually may happen in the freedom which is the crux of moral integrity.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, you showed us the perfect use of language through your intercessory prayer for all humanity; your body language prayers were the perfect oblations to give us a model for living our worded lives.  Amen.

Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2026

We are your offspring, O Father-Mother, Parent God, the fullness of the plenitude from which we have derived; your household is the milieu in which we live and move and have our being and we ask for grace to be good steward children of your household, especially in caring for each other.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 9, 2026

Eternal Word, out of the vast inner and omni-private space of humanity words have brought into being through naming the world as we know it; give us grace not to worship the objects of the outer world but to use the structuration facility of inward language to work out the harmony of love and justice in our various environments.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2026

Holy Spirit Advocate, teach us to be advocates for those who are not adequately befriended in this world through favorable circumstances or persons of nurture; give us the grace to raise the level of justice for all to know the dignity of being made in the divine image.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 7, 2026

Eternal Parent, send your befriending Spirit to Advocate on behalf of those who are feeling like abandoned orphans in a world and do internal comforting of the seeming forsaken even while you inspire nurturing people to fulfill the befriending which is needed to make this world seem kinder.  Amen.

 Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 6, 2026

Eternal Word, everything that has come to be known has been processed by the mystery of language making the interior private into a constituting force in our world; give us grace to get our inward language engine tuned toward what love and justice can accomplish in our outer world.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 5, 2026

Eternal Father, Parent God, you sent Jesus into a world of people who lived as though they were orphans; give us us wisdom to follow Jesus as your unique Son to bring us out of our sense of orphanhood and into knowing the DNA of the image of God upon our lives as children of God.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2026

Parent God, we often find ourselves in the condition of seeming to be abandoned children, orphans, forsaken to the point of crying why from the crosses of human misery; help us to know the Christ who was unique Son and yet who knew forsakenness who can lead us to retain our children of God status through everything in life.  Amen.

Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2026

Jesus Christ, you knew yourself to be uniquely God's Son so that we might come to embrace the uniqueness of each of our own experiences as beloved children of God; give us grace to honor the manifold uniquenesses of so many people and yet find the communal harmony of love and justice for the common good.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 2, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, make us inventive in new ways of applying love and justice in the new situations especially when the ruts of past answers are tinged with old cultural practices of biases even while presuming that antiquity makes them superior as precedence; give us the liberty of knowing that justice is still the search for newness of application to people who are ever knowing themselves differently in their primary identities which is part of their dignity.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, it is an awesome to know ourselves as being mediated through this incredible language loop of knowing ourselves and the world which is continuously becoming named and valued; give us wisdom in the freedom which we do have in this loop to follow Jesus in being creative playwrights and actors of the living words of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, April 30, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, you have accrued metaphors of the superlative designations for how to best be divinely human as the example for us to our best as merely human children of God; keep us on the path in surpassing ourselves in excellence as it is manifest in love and justice in living well together.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 29, 2026

Eternal Word Christ, we thank you for perpetually morphing in our history so that our inward linguistic lenses can see you in new ways and places, to prove that your image finds our world a  projection screen for your presences.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 28, 2026

Eternal Word of God, we have knowingly become because in, by, and through having word, we know life in the many ways that we have come to know it;  but we know that knowing good and evil definitionally and contextually has come about from living worded lives; give us clarity in knowing goodness as justice and love for the common good.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2026

Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life; as the poetic all and in all, you have become a figure of identity for a way of life which is being living sacrifices as we learn to die to our selfish selves in order to live together well by making significant room for everyone in the world.  Amen.

Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2026

Good Shepherd Christ, we bemoan that the injunction to whom much is given, much is required, is mostly neglected by the wealthy and powerful as they mainly hoard the world's resources for themselves while vast numbers of people go unattended; we pray for the thwarting of misused power and the redirection of resources for the common good of all.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 25, 2026

God, the provider of enough, forgive us for not solving the equitable distribution of your generous gifts to our world through continuous selfish and tribal-centric choices of poor stewardship; restore us in the wisdom for the optimal care of the world, its people, creatures, and environment.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2026

God of harmony, help us to match up the power of care with situations of need in our world so that the complementing fulfillment of shepherding care and human need might find adequate and continuous resolution, through Jesus, our Great Good Shepherd.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 23, 2026

Risen Christ, forgive us from using the resurrection as mere comfort regarding our afterlives and not embracing the power of hope to work feverishly for bringing new life conditions in the pursuit of love and justice for the common good in this life.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 22, 2026

Risen Christ, let us not use the hope of the resurrection as an excuse to delay justice now for as many as possible, and let us not use hope as but a analgesic rather than as a stimulant to achieve as much excellence as we can in this life.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 21, 2026

Good Shepherd, who calls us to be good shepherds; give us wisdom about power inequities among people which leave many people without mediating advocates for their fair share in the experience of the quality of life benefits; give us courage to advocate for the weak even as exemplified by the advocacy of the poor by Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2026

Good Shepherd Christ, we witness the power dynamics of human interaction where exploitation of the needy and ignorant by the powerful often occur; send us good shepherds when we are vulnerable, and give us willing hearts to be good shepherds to those in need.  Amen.

 Third Sunday of Easter, April 19, 2026

Risen Christ, surprise us again and again and be exposed to us in the places where your omnipresence has been incognito; and reaffirm to us the sacramentality of all things which always already bear the goodness of original blessing.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 18, 2026

God, we live lives where surprises of all sorts suddenly interdict our probability anticipatory logic; let our surprises increase our inventory of knowing what may happen as we better prepare for what may come even while we honor the freedom of what may happen as the newness of new divine moments.  Amen. 

Friday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2026

Risen Christ, give us enough ministering favorable surprises to weather the unchosen but oft occurring unpleasant events that come with probable conditions of freedom; and let the moments of sublime surprise include the purposeful integration of the  suffering and affliction which can come to us.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 16, 2026

Risen Christ, keep us from being rigidly dogmatic and preventing the freshness of interpretations to arise in people finding your presence in stark and telling relevance to their lives.  Give us the discernment of what new things can happen in the lives of people as love and justice bend the arc of history toward fresh realizations. Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 15, 2026

Eternal Risen Eternal Word, give us linguistic protean elasticity as we are inspired by the many omnipresences of the divine in our world such that we can assert because of always already connectedness of all things, that the Risen Christ is another linguistic way of affirming the with-ness of God in incorporating all things.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 14, 2026

Risen Christ, give us the wisdom to honor the institution of the church, not as as a museum of calcified tradition to prohibit the new from happening, but as the prayer context for people to be able to say, when I pray, coincidences seem to happen.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2026

Risen Christ, give us enough of your sudden "poof" appearances, so that we can live faithful when you do not seem so apparent and we limit you to being around only when things are tellingly favorable for us; give us unselfish perspective to know that life itself is evidence of Christly presence.  Amen.

Second Sunday of Easter, April 12,2026

Eternal Christ, who as eternal Word, can be known poetically as all and in all, cure us of our doubt which limits how your risen presence might be known to us so that we might unlock ourselves to the possibility of being perpetually surprised.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 11, 2026

Eternal Word of God, we thank you for the mystery of language with us which can become the lens within us for seeing your many risen presences in the world as affirmation of the divine omnipresence of God being always already with us.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 10, 2026

God, we are given language to tame the vastness what what may probably happen to us within and without, and to others in this life who make the journey with us; let our language use be omni-competent to our life challenges deriving from the Eternal Word, who is with God and who is God.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 9, 2026

Gracious Resurrected Christ, even as our tradition shows that you made Mary Magdalene the first apostle of the your Risen Life; give us grace to return the proper status to women in being full leaders in your church even as your resurrection intention is surely authority for the full inclusion of women in the manifest ministry of women in the church.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Eternal Word, Risen Christ, All and in All, through words it is written that the creation came to be known in its many named forms, and the biblical record shows that we are naming people who even name how we came to be naming people.  As naming is the relationship of our inward Word projecting relationship with our outer world, give us resurrection hope for our future as people with language.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 7, 2026

God as All, you have been equally All through every condition of time within your divine ground of omni-becoming; and though you are always already equally God, we limited humans parse degrees of your perceived apparent presence especially as those apparent presences have entered our narrative of the Risen Christ.  Give us O God, more experiences of apparent divine presence even as our weak faith seems to often doubt you when we not experiencing events of telling favor.  Let the Risen Christ help us to find the Eternal Word as being all and in all.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 6, 2026

God, we know that death is the ultimate sickness which comes to effect our lives in many ways; and because we have words we name it and it afflicting attending conditions; we give thanks for Christ the Eternal Word, who gives us resurrection words as our soothing placebo of living with the knowledge of death.  Amen.

The Day of the Resurrection, April 5, 2026

Risen Christ, give us the observer effects which enables us to see you as we know that we need to be have our interior linguistic lives become the prism of refraction to project how we see you.  Holy Spirit, be within us the mystical rearrangement of our seeing ability so that we might see Christliness as the omnipresence of the original goodness of all.  Amen.

Prayers for Lent, 2026

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.

Prayers for Epiphany, 2026

Shrove Tuesday, February 17, 2026

God of excessive supply for this world, as we ponder the fat of our excesses, bring us to be shriven this day by honest assessments of our failure to love this world with stewardship eyes for the care of the common good; prepare us for our Lenten fast as we seek better regulation of our lives for the good of the whole of humanity.  Amen.

Last Monday after the Epiphany, February 16, 2026

Christ of the Transfiguration, give us grace when our varied circumstance dismiss us from our mountain top experiences where we cannot permanently reside; give us poignant recall of the highest insights of our peak experiences to enable us to persevere in the valleys of human experience which comes to us all.  Amen.

Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 15, 2026

God the declared Jesus your unique Beloved Child to call each of us back to the divine image upon our lives which has made us children of God; give us events of transfiguration so that we do not live as divine orphans hurting each other and help us realize that we all belong to the family of God.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 14, 2016

Transfigured Christ who gave your disciples peak experience to the Sublime, give to the peoples of this world peak experiences to anchor our values in the love and justice needed for the healing survival of our world.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 13, 2026

God of the field of all probabilities, you have placed within this field the possibility for all to experience the Sublime in such a way as to transform our lives and inform the way of love and justice.  Let the example of Jesus as the supreme Exemplar lead us into the sublime effects of justice for the common good.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 12, 2026

Omnipresent God, rise to the surface of the experiences of all people to the degree of evoking a surge of universal enchantment such that people know an ecstasy which ends in greater love and justice throughout the human community.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2026

Christ the Transfigured, the telling of your lit face is the narrative of you as the Light of the World; give us the grace of transfiguring events, even mountain top experiences when the experience of the Sublime provides us with new direction and creative advance for personal growth and for being aid in the perpetual causes of love and justice.  Amen.

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.