Showing posts with label Prayers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayers. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Prayers for Christmas 2021

Wednesday in 2 Christmas, Eve of the Epiphany, January 5, 2022

God whose very name would imply universality, what would be the universal meaning of Jesus Christ to everyone in the world?  We ask that the Christ nature of God's image being upon all persons would arise in each person and allow each person to recognize our common family identity so that we would care for each other as we seek to take the very best care of ourselves.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Christmas, January 4, 2022

O God, we believe that in Jesus Christ, the divine life became initiated into humanity in the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist; help those who are strong and powerful to accept their initiation into community for the the purpose of ministry and helping the entire community to raise their level of well being.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Christmas, January 3, 2022

God whom we know in palpable ways when the experience of the Sublime marks our human experience with the extraordinary and the uncanny, we ask for events of the Epiphany of Christ in increased events of the active practice of love and justice in the behaviors of all people.  Please God, inspire the sublime results of love and justice to become manifests so that the world can be saved.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Christmas, January 2, 2022

God whose realm is everywhere, you make your realm accessible to all who with wisdom comes to find that all human life is possessed with Word ability that can become expressive of the wisdom which best characterizes the wisdom of God and life.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Christmas, January 1, 2022, The Holy Name

O God, we have measured another year in the 4.543 years which have passed according to our own location and measuring standard; forgive us for overestimating our own time because we are prisoners of our own era.  Let our estimation of our own time be a time to add the qualities of love and justice to our world and help us to reverse the arc of damage that we are inflicting upon the people of the future because we live as though our world only belongs to us in our own time.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Christmas, December 31, 2021

God of Time, we label in arbitrary ways time in measurements as a way of telling our story located in time and space.  The end of a unit called a year is an attempt like grasping the water in the river that flows aways and we might call a handful of river water representative of the entire stream.  And so we clasp the river of Time with our calendars because we want that the time of our life to be qualitative time punctuated by the good deeds that qualify the days of our life.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Christmas, December 30, 2021

Gracious Word of God, forgive us for keeping faith stories within their own logic and failing to see how they are meant to inspire us to do the seeming impossible task of making heaven on earth in the practice of love and justice.  God, we look to the impossibility of the miracles stories so that we might be inspired to overturn the logical gravity of selfish sin and let God do the seeming impossible work of justice through us in our daily practice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Christmas, Holy Innocents, December 29, 2021

God of power and might, you share that power and might with people so that they can protect and care for infants and children; we condemn in your name the abuse of power which causes the needless death and harm of any infant or child and we ask that the power of humanity be converted to care for the vulnerable in Jesus' Name.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Christmas, December 28, 2021

God of the incarnation, make the Word flesh in us again and again as it can be made active in the words and deeds of love and justice in our lives.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Christmas, December 27, 2021

O God of the Martyrs, who presides over the free conditions where good people get killed wrongly, and bad people live on to do harm and evil for their power and their greed; you continue to inspire the humble and the good to overcome evil with the seeming pitiful weapons of goodness because you do not want good people to perpetuate evil in any way.  Give us hope to believe that the seeming invisible effects of goodness are building the infrastructure for future goodness.  Amen.

Sunday, 1 Christmas, December 26, 2021 (on the passing of Archbishop Tutu)

O Christ, the Eternal Word, made flesh in Jesus; you became made flesh again in your prophet and priest Desmond Tutu and the people of South Africa were rebuked into the work of reconciliation, forgiveness, and restoration.  Thank you for revealing in the work of our brother Desmond how bad our sins have been, how significant the changes to betterment have become, and yet further revealing the work that needs to be done in the loving of God and our neighbors.  Amen.

Christmas Day, December 25, 2021

Dear God, we thank you for uncovering the mystery of the ages, in the birth of Jesus who was the New Adam to help us realize that the image of God upon us is in fact the realization of the Risen Christ with us.  Thank you for using all creation as a midwife for Christ to be born in us.  Amen.

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Prayers: Easter Season 2021

Saturday in 7 Easter, Eve of Pentecost, May 22, 2021

O God of Time, as Eastertide comes to an end, we seek to retain Easter reality throughout all of the seasons of the year; let us move from the sheer joys of Easter alleluias into the dynamic sending of the Holy Spirit to bring the hope and optimism of the resurrection into the places where we reside.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 21, 2021

O God, we confess you today since we experience vast mutual togetherness but only in our limited contextual portions; we ponder you as the omni-contextual Being who encompasses the collection of all contexts even as they manifest competition, conflict, contradiction and agreement.  We ask for the wisdom to know peaceful negotiation of our context with the contexts of our interactions today.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 20, 2021

What shall I call thee today, most High, Father, Son, or Holy Spirit?  When I speak to One, I am speaking to each, and when I favor one, I know that there resides no jealousy within the Godhead.  O Dynamic Trio, you are the model for Fellowship and Communion and we beseech you to ever spill this glorious Communion of Trinitarian love into our human community.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 19, 2021

O God, you have made each being to have one identity through temporal states of manifesting incredible differences; and we fear the loss of continued identity after our bodies die.  We thank you for being Spirit God who retains Divine identity through infinite states of surpassing greatness and we commit our personal identity in this life and the next to the Great Spirit who will allow us to know ourselves when we leave our bodies.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2021

Divine One who is the Pure Creativity of Freedom, we are thankful for the moral validity of the shared freedom in our world, even as we are horrified and suffer under the hurtful choices and the collisions of free agents; we ask for your loving grace to bear up under the condition of freedom and we ask for strength and wisdom to know how to overcome evil freedom with good freedom as we seek to be agents of the goodly grace of love, justice and kindness.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 17, 2021

God of all time, we spiral in time in the traditions of how we measure time, spiritual time, and in the last week of Easter Season we move toward the Day of the Spirit, not to celebrate the coming into being of the Spirit, but a coming into human awareness of the always already Holy Spirit omnipresence of God.  And as always we hear the divine rebuke of "what took us so long to know Thee?"  Amen.

Sunday, 7 Easter, May 16, 2021

Ascended Christ, the land that Jesus and David walked has been called "holy," and yet it has ever been the place of horrendous wars and conflict; we beseech the divine Shalom and Peace of God to come to the land of Israel, which cannot truly be holy until peace becomes the lifestyle of the people who inhabit it.  Send the angels of peace to this land.  Amen.

Saturday in  Easter, May 15, 2021

Gracious One in the Divine Realm, we thank you that we have been welcomed into your realm as we have ridden the ascension of Jesus to be united with you even as we still traverse the visible realm.  Give us grace to negotiate the parallel realms as we hope to bring as much of the will of heaven to earth as we can today.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Easter, May 14, 2021

Risen Christ, it is recorded that you prayed that your followers would be One with your heavenly Father; we seek to embrace and know the reality of this mystical union in our time and place as it can be gracefully adapted to our circumstances.  Give us courage to embrace the implication of such mystical union in what it might require of us.  Amen.

Ascension Day, Thursday, in 6  Easter, May 13, 2021

Omnipresence God, you have always been with us; we thank you on this day, the day when Christ became invisible again and was received back into the omnipresence Eternal Word, we thank you that through that Word, Christ remains with us as all and in all.  We thank you that you became particularly apparent in Jesus Christ, and that now in the divine invisible, you still can be known in unseen ways which have very visible consequences for our lives.  Amen.

Wednesday, Ascension Eve, in 6 Easter,  May 12, 2021

God, who is invisible but who became apparent in how the Eternal Word created human language life, with us being conscious of ourselves as language-users; with the Ascension event Jesus re-entered the invisible realm but as a metaphorical elevator for us to ride to be seated in heavenly places, places where the vision of a panorama of human experience helps us the negotiate the very micro-incidences of our daily life.  Keep us on the elevator of the macro and the micro so that the will of heaven can be relevantly worked into the details of human life, always in need of the specific application of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2021

Gracious God, in the prayer of Jesus he asked that we might be made one with you as he was one with you.  We ask that we might embrace the profundity of this prayer request of Jesus and have it fulfilled in our relationship with you.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 10, 2021

O God, who is all and in all and personified in Christ; you cry out for us to accept our mystical union with you, but we have so suppressed consciousness of you that we often live in alienation.  Let your Christ consciousness surface in us in apparency so that we might enter into the marriage of our souls with the divine presence.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 9, 2021

God of the Communion known as friendship within the Godhead, you have spilled the befriending grace into the people of the world.  Let us receive the befriending grace so that we can know the fellowship and communion of peace with each other in our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2021

Gracious Father-Mother God, we seek psychical balance in being true to our male/female natures.  And in the Risen Christ, if there is neither male nor female as separate gender competency, there is both male and female in the fullness of complementarity which we seek to enrich us as we struggle to find meaning on the vast continuum of diversity in which we live.  And in you God as our Mother, and Blessed Mary as our Mother, we find a special kind of nurture for our souls.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 7, 2021

Gracious God, we thank you for giving us Jesus to initiate us into the art of living well, the art of learning the applied meanings of love.  Let us not try to measure how much we have loved; let us pine for how we can love better in our future as we aspire for the realm of love to guide the life of the world.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 6, 2021

Heavenly Parent, you commanded that your Son lay down his physical life for his friends and in love for you and his friends, he did it; empower us to lay down our ego lives for each other as we embrace the spiritual power of the physical death of Jesus to live sacrificial lives for the common good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 5, 2021

Creator God, you have made us with inner conscious lives to be vacuums of what we experience and most importantly we experience other people in our lives.  Give us grace to abide in each other with mutual love as we follow Jesus and become better people whisperers toward peace.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2021

O God of love, you ask of us a love that is more than feeling or affinity or compelled by impulse; you ask of us the love in action, called justice.  And giving what belongs to each is not always convenient to us and so we ask for grace to love beyond what is convenient to our immediate ease.  Amen.

Monday in 5, Easter, May 3, 2021

O Love Divine, O God who is love, we know such love is beyond the good and evil which is always happening even as it is the sustaining conditions for everything that  is happening and becoming; let us aid the force of good in the field of freedom by being drawn toward reconciling love and making cosmic love, particular love events in our lives today.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, May 2, 2021

Divine Holy One, you draw from us all of the best names we can think about and so we confess about you in the superlative what we believe to be best about us when we are best: you are Love itself.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2021

O God, who is the One about whom nothing greater can be conceived; the conception of your greatness cannot help but be all and in all.  May we stumble over the divine presence wherever we go today and proclaim, "O, it's you God again; forgive me for forgetting your presence." Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, April 30, 2021

O timeless God, you accept our artificial ways of presenting time and measuring it because we are compelled to convert time to our stories with meaning and value, even as we whistle in the dark of knowing our stories have endings, but in the timeless resurrection hope we seek to always have new beginnings.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, April 29, 2021

O unseen God, who still has come to our language because with it we register the divine effects in our life and world; let us see and name the divine effects of goodness in a way that significantly overcomes the free agents of evil, pain and the entropy of stable appearances on which we have been tempted to anchor false hope. With resurrection grace, let us always be hopeful about the Divine Some More, some more of you and all that will continue to evolve upon your divine ground.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 28, 2021

God, who has identity with the Eternal Word, we confess that you are signified "beyond language," even as we use the words in language, "beyond language," to signify you.  As we are humanly trapped in words and language, we accept the relational essence of language as being something of the Divine essence and so we pray using the relational creations of language, words themself.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2021

O Vine-dresser God of an organic universe, you provide the "holy sap" of enriching sustaining Spirit care and connection through the Eternal Word-Vine Christ and flow into us as branches in the holy organic relational universe.  And you ask us to abide in this connection and so today, we say, again, we abide into you.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, April 26, 2021

O God, we confess you to be the glue of the universe through whom we are all connected.  We confess the illusory sin of pretending separation from you and each other even while everything is always, already rippling the great pond of being causing mutual wave effect of everything by everything and so we humbly confess, we are connected in and by you.  Amen.

4 Easter, April 25, 2021

Eternal Christ, you are confessed to be all and in all and as eternal Word, you are the very basis of communication itself.  Help us to bring out of the Eternal Word, shepherding care in word and body language deeds, especially so that everyone can be on the receiving end of love and justice.  Amen.


Saturday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2021

O God who is the Great Shepherd of the universe; you gave Jesus to be the earthly model of what shepherding care would look like for us in the superlative.  Help us to receive good shepherding when we need it and to give it when we have the power, knowledge and wealth to do so.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 23, 2021

O God, who was called a shepherd by the Psalmist, we embrace the general sustaining care in the continuance of life as we know it even as we are deeply challenged that in freedom you have left the significant nurturing, applied care to us a people who are at the top of the freedom chain.  Give us grace to follow the shepherding care of your Son, Jesus as we use our freedom to care for each other and our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 22, 2021

O God, who inspires the mixed metaphors of Christ as Shepherd and Lamb of God, we ask for the power of sacrifice to be made manifest in making us little good shepherds for the care of those who are vulnerable in this world.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 21, 2021

O God, who gave us the resurrection to give us hope for being further finished in our moral and spiritual progress; forgive all evangelists when they repent, who preached the Gospel to people whom they would not let become their equals in grace, justice and human dignity, in social, economic and educational status.  Forgive us the laziness of putting off actual justice in some future resurrection perfection rather than in the here and now for all people everywhere.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2021

God of poetic imagination, best words can code our inner worlds and result in total personal outcomes and so become made flesh in bodily actions of love and justice.  And forgive us for denying the empirical effects of inspiring poetry to change our world through moral action.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 19, 2021

O great God, greatness inspires the freedom of language to no longer be bound by the gravity of the natural laws because the inner imaginary space is limitless with metaphors to perpetually respond to the greatness of All.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Easter, April 18, 2021

Loving Maker, we are made to become what we consume and the Risen Christ gives us himself as our "food and drink" of life as we interiorize our identity with Christ to aid us in filtering all of life experience which we have occasion to consume.  Grant, O God, that our life experience be filtered through the redemption of the Christ experience.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2021

Risen Christ, be known in the breaking of the bread as we gather to realize the complementing Presence of joy, peace and love in the fellowship of gathering.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 16, 2021

God of Omnipresence and of particular Presence in Jesus:  the resurrected Christ was known in a particular way in the fellowship of eating together.  Grant that we would understand the aspiration of the Eucharist to be the fellowship of everyone in the divine banquet of the universe.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 15, 2021

O God, who can tax the universe because the divine image is stamped upon us like coins; we offer our tribute to you giving from your own back to you as we remove egotistical ownership because the Risen Christ has converted us from "mine" to Thine.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 14, 2021

Gracious and Processive God, in your sustaining continuous creation, we witness the turn of the kaleidoscope of the the created order today.  And most things look exactly like they did yesterday even as we know that they are aged.  Your cycles of nature repeat with the return of the traces from what we remember and within the sameness of all, we acknowledge the unique and catching events, like the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus, which will not be repeated, but remain in the memory of our traditions as the promise of our future post-death apparent states within the divine order, somehow, someway.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2021

God of Beauty, you reveal beauty in the play of the very simple and the very complex and we extol the meaningful truth of beauty in all of its manifestations.  Give us grace to accept the truth of beauty which moves us in different ways than the meaningful truth of science and logic and teach us how to appropriate the beautiful art of the resurrection of Christ which has come to us in the words from the One who has been called Word, Itself, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 12, 2021

God who oversees a continuously altering world; give me grace to perceive the Risen Christ, who was an altered state form of Jesus of Nazareth, yet with a continuity which linked them across the divide of death as One Being.  Help me to live with a sanguine feet-on-the-ground ground objectivity for the material goodness of this life, even while knowing inward altered states of seeing beyond the curtain of the physical to what can inspire beneficial action for all beings in this life.  Amen.

Second Sunday of Easter, April 11, 2021

God of perpetual Presence, like Doubting Thomas there is part of me which believes in the primacy of sensorial existence and yet the invisible intuitive presences continuously interweave my experience to give your holy indications of other presences which are equal to or greater meaningful truth for me than what I see, hear or feel.  And so I am grateful for invisible, evocative presences which come to language with million megaton "imprecise" words like love, peace, joy or Wow!  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 10, 2021

Gracious God, the absence of Jesus became the presence of the Risen Christ and we offer our thanks for the expansion in how we might perceive divine presence at almost anytime as the "anointed" occasion becomes messianic in how it is perceived.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 9, 2021

God of omni-presence, whose presence is so general like the hum of all sounds happening together, thank you for providing us "stand out" and apparent and particular presence in Jesus of Nazareth, but also as mystical apparent presence in the Risen Christ known through what has come to words as the Holy Spirit presence.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 8, 2021

Gracious God, we who live in our bodies are physical thinkers as we privilege the substantiality of our physical lives; and so you have allowed us to use the empirical verifiable as a metaphor for what is really, "Real;" grant us to have faith in the substantiality of the experiences of the extra-physical since our language can honestly meaningful respond to things not-seen but things that are meaningfully real.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 7, 2021

God, who is the blessing of pure freedom behind and within the things visible to human eyes; you gave us the Easter story to lead us to be restored in the "Christliness" of all beyond the limited sentimental visualizations of Jesus of Nazareth and hereby revealed that all things were "anointed" with the designation of good in the creative event.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 6, 2021

God of the unrepeatable events and occasions of time, give us grace to accept the uniqueness of the resurrection of Christ, and as unrepeatable for anyone else in the very same way, because you reserve for each a unique way to know resurrection Give grace to enable each to know hope's particular narrative in life. Amen.

Easter Monday, April 5, 2021

O Easter God, the resurrection of Jonah was being puked by fish onto the seashore; how your Son Jesus escaped the tomb to be an endless apparitional being is marvelous to think about even as I know that through the Eternal Word, all things are linguistically possible.  Amen.

Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021

O Easter God, with the dynamic preserving of the life of Jesus as the Risen Christ, you remade the meaning of a terrible means of capital punishment.  Even as I cannot believe that all things can be well in real time, with resurrection hope I hold out for a final all manner of things being well indeed.  Amen.


Sunday, March 21, 2021

Forty Prayers for Lent

Forty Prayers for Lent

 

1-God of mercy, we can’t help but feel that we have been tricked within the free conditions of this world to lose the best path of our life.  We thank you that you provided us with a guide to find our way by subjecting Jesus to a forty day fast when he was made completely vulnerable to an accusing foe.   Thank you that hero Jesus, did it once and for all and that he gave us the example to resist the Diablo.  Amen.

 

2-God of ideal timing, help us who are so often tempted to mistime what we do and say in our lives.  Thank you for making all things good, but giving them ideal release occasions which make them good, right and appropriate in their use for the good of our lives in community.  God, as one who can get us to the right place at the right time, help us to be in-sync with the Holy Spirit as our Global Positioning System.  Amen.

 

3-Gracious Heavenly Parent, you gave us a sibling, Jesus, who was like us in his needs, his esteem, and in having a human death date, but was obedient to the heavenly timing of his needs, his fame and glory esteem, and the purposeful way in which he was to die. Grant to us the ability to discern and obey God’s will for our lives as we seek to be ever appropriate to the times, places and people of our lives.  Amen.

 

4-God of discernment, you gave us the example of Jesus to expose the accuser, Satan.  Give us the power of resisting the accuser’s lies even as we discern the accuser attaining a personality when riding upon all the accusing voices of the imperfect diminishers of our lives who in our memories leave their echoing loud voices.  Give us strength to say, “get behind me Satan, in the name of my hero Jesus,” when the accuser rides as a parasite upon the memories of all our lives’ worst moments.  Amen.

 

5-Loving God, help us not to despair of perpetually missing the mark toward the target of perfection.  Help us to know that if we are aiming in the right direction with our life activity, then your angels will carry our falling short efforts to the mark on the wings of God’s grace as we can only be complete in you.  Amen.

 

6-O Divine Just one, how can we know where to aim the words and deeds of our lives unless you give us a model?  Yes, you did in Jesus give us a model, to inspire us to apply love and justice to all the activities of our lives.  Amen.

 

7-O God, if I could see you, touch you, and hear you, I’m sure that I would make idols out of such sensorial contacts and pretend to capture mystery in a bottle to add to my museum of mystical experiences.  Let me accept the traces of your mysterious touches in the guise of the ordinary and know that I cannot limit or contain you as I accept that I and everything else are contained in you.  Amen.

 

 

8-Eternal Word as God, through you, I know you even as I am a linguistic cipher within the total lexicon of the Divine Eternal Word. Let the words of my life and body language deeds articulate the fact that through Word as Communication, the Eternal Word is always communicating.  Amen.

 

9-Divine Christ, you are All and in All, and when you took bread and said, “This is my body,” you showed us that your presence did not end at your skin so that you are bread and the entire world which enters your purview.  Help us not to limit your presence to bread and wine and Bible, since these cannot exhaust You who are All and in All.  Amen.

 

10-O God, we love your showings in familiar places but we also like the surprise, “Peek a boo,” occasions when you appear without our knowing or even practicing to be prepared to greet you.  And when we smile without knowing why we smile, we thank you the uncaused one for the delightful touch.  Amen.

 

11-God, deliver us from perfectionism, especially when we judge others who are not gifted in the areas where we are gifted.  And deliver us when we are attempted to bemoan the fact that we are not perfect and falsely presume that we should be in the place of the perfect one.  Help us not to take on the role of omni-competence in self-reliant presumption so that we don’t hold ourselves responsible for something we can never be, because that role has been ever held by Thee.  Amen.

 

12-O great God, help us to know that you contain us, more than we contain you, because we live and move and have our being in you.  Give us grace to make love and justice the practice in our lesser environments located in your great Home of all that is.  Amen.

 

 

13-God beyond all, help me to accept my limited capacity and the provisional insights which come to me on the path to receive perhaps, more surpassing insights tomorrow.  Amen.

 

 

14-God of involvement with all, let me not demand of you final answers about anything, but adequate answers to the moment of need. Amen.

 

15-O God of beauty, let me be but a shard within your grand kaleidoscope, turning in time and being perpetually rearranged with all other shards, to give you a pleasing view.  Amen.

 

 

16-O God, remind me how natural it should be to be humble, with an infinite number of things all being in infinite number of relationships and with each person having a vantage point on a very limited number of things.  So, why God, am I tempted to over-value my very partial view when the realization of this should make me unavoidably humble?   Let me have the grace to be but a member of your orchestra blending to the glory of the One God.  Amen.

 

17-O Spirit of God, are you the literal breath within?  Are you the invisible wind blowing the trees?  Or are you behind the metaphor we must use to refer to the mystery of the animation of life itself?  Amen.

 

18-God, we endeavor to be awe struck fans seeking the divine autographs to be written on things as a proof like a tag on a product stating, “Made in and By God.” Amen.

 

19-God of greatness, while we want your signature to stand out in particular things, you perhaps are saying to us that all things are your signature. And with our prayers we acknowledge that we are signed, sealed and delivered by you.  Amen.

 

20-O God of discerning rebuke; teach us not to use intercession for others as a guise for us confessing for them, the sins which we think that they have.  Amen.

 

21-God of wisdom, please forgive my worry based upon the assumption that I can know and invent the problems of the future before they happen.  Please transform my anxiety energy into calm wise planning for probable outcomes and not worst-case scenarios.  Amen.

 

22-O God, with the arising of Jesus within a human family, you made it natural for human words and knowing to be valid ways of knowing you.  And you gave us hope for empathy by showing us that our experience is relevant to understanding all beings.  Amen.

 

23-Creator Genius God, like each unique snowflake you have made each of us unique in personal constitution and experience, and such uniqueness can also be experienced as being quite alone.  But who is more unique than you?  And through you we can experience the choir of other unique beings and proclaim that we are mutually unique with each other.  Amen.

 

24-God of creativity, thank you for stamping each person with singular uniqueness so that from the mist of personal aloneness creativity can arise to bless the community.  Amen.

 

25-God of comfort, when I feel that nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, let me be reminded that nobody has known the joys, the smiles, and the love that I have known in precisely the unique ways in which I have known them.  Help me to balance the uniqueness of my troubles with the uniqueness of my joys.  Amen.

 

26-God, forgive me of the arrogance of thinking that I have thought of things which you haven’t which result in the events of worry.  When my worry is but thoughts without any empirical verification, please teach me to value myself so that I don’t choose disaster for my mental entertainment.  Please transform the thoughts about future probabilities into intercession for others and wise planning toward beneficial outcomes.  Amen.

 

 

 

27-O God, you are synchronous with all becoming, you have subjected us to the binary of time, events of either before or after.  And with each “after” event we mark our age and note the differences between who we were before and how we are after and we can fall into regret of what we were not before, or nostalgia of what we are not now.  Give us grace to accept the continual flow of the before and after and to embrace transformation as the God given action of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

28-Forgive us God, when we have been fickle within the crowd, and when it has been safe to shout “Hosanna, blessed is the one who comes in God’s name.”  But in another crowd, we have been crying, “Crucify him,” when we have been involved in the victimization of those who are already suffering.  Give us discernment when we see those who have been made victims, and give us the courage to support and stand up for the wrongly ostracized.  Amen.

 

29-Lord Jesus Christ, how often we would like to keep you as an “external” icon to gaze upon or as a story in the Gospels.  Let us accept our identity with you and let your Christ nature see through us, pray through us and act through us.  Amen.

 

30-Bless Holy Trinity, who is unavoidable as a Father Plenitude from whom we came, live and will return to.  Who is Jesus the Christ, to assume human life so that we might assume knowledge of divine life in a valid way.  Who is Holy Spirit as the omnipresence allowing us to conduct mutual experience and know that we are not alone.  We bless you, O unavoidable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

31-Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for giving us the Eucharist as a meal to promote the future gathering of your expanding family.  Keep us loyal to the family meal, and let us not forget that this meal is connected with the needs of the hungry people of our world.  Amen.

 

32-God of all people, you have made us feel so welcome, we can in our privilege think that our religious experience is more valid than those who equally claim the dignity of Christ.  Give us grace to open our hearts to all who want the equal dignity of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

 

33-God, you have funneled knowledge of you to comply with our human smallness, but with that wonderful knowledge you have given us the ability to surpass what we ever thought that we could be.  Thank you for being Word made flesh in Jesus; please dear Word of God, be made flesh again and again in us.  Amen.

 

34-O God, our heavenly parent, you have given us your Son Jesus to help us be formed into a family with a new identity.  Give us a love of our identity with the life of Christ who lives in and through us by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

35-Gracious God, we look forward with hope for the return of the excessive use of the praise word of the Easter celebration.  As we have fasted from the unique Easter praise word, let our lungs be ready to return to the Easter excess of holy noise in praise of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

 

36-God of all praise, prepare us for the intensity of Holy Week, when we will recount the final week of the life of Jesus in his earthy body.  Let the remembrance of these events be dynamic so that their power can be made manifest again in us in new events of remembrance.  Amen.

 

37-Christ, to be in you, is to erase the ego of lesser identities, like ethnic, gender, and social and economic differences.  But to be in you is to uplift to equality people in their differences to know that you delight to dwell in each person in giving everyone a sense of an original experience of you.  Amen.

 

38-Lord Jesus Christ, in your death on the Cross, you showed us that God suffers with us in our lives even to the suffering of death.  We thank you that you preserved genuine freedom, by allowing the worst of all to happen, even to your Son.  We ask that we might be shocked by the worst that happens to be inspired to overcome evil with good through your blessed example.  Amen.

 

39-God of all Patience, we wonder why you tolerate so much in life, even as we know life would be all programmed outcomes without genuine freedom.  Help us to respect freedom so much that we would in the democracy of freedom, cast our votes for goodness, so the goodness will finally win the day.  Amen.

 

40-God of our Easter destiny, you call us during Lent to our Easter of hope.  We thank you that hope, itself, received a wonderful story in the resurrection of Jesus.  We thank you that Easter hope always gives us a future, in this life and the next.  Amen.

 

 

 

 

 


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