Prayers for Easter, 2024

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 18, 2024

Gracious Holy Spirit, as we seek to accept that our continuity as an existing being, we seek such in your greater connecting reality of stringing together the mystery of how identity is carried forever in time.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 17, 2024

God who represent the highest of human value, give us the grace to continue to value in better ways the best ways to apply justice and love to the people in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 16, 2024

Lord Jesus who is Word of God, you said that your words are Spirit and they are life; let the Spirit words of our lives be inventive and creative of the order of love and justice in our world so that we might be connected in the best possible ways.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 15, 2024

God, we confess you as the Great Spirit of the infinite negligible, the mystery of what we cannot know and see in terms of direct causation effects of what is happening in our lives; in faith we hold to a profound connecting Thread of Love within all things to make all manner of things well, indeed.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 14, 2024

God of unity, we seek a string of unity of the connection of all things in time; give us grace to assist the creative evolving of love and justice in time and the Spirit of Wisdom to hold diversity together in harmony.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 13, 2024

Holy Spirit, we seek to know the influence of the expanding greatness of One in the midst of incalculable diversity; give us wisdom to know how to direct the magnetism of the gravity of One into local phenomena of the peace of harmony.  Amen.

 Sunday, 7 Easter, May 12, Sunday after the Ascension

Jesus Christ, you gave us the example of prayer, not as a way to believe that we can micromanage God's interventions in the world, but to embrace Christ the Word who calls to the communication vocation of being language users who bear the image of Christ the Word.  Give us the grace of perpetual communication with you as all and in all and let our prayers be perpetual intercessional requests for the outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 11, 2024

Ascended Christ, Word of God; let your intercessors sustain us continually to live with the dreadfully wonderful and frightening freedom which is aboard in this world.  Grant us the wisdom to live with all the probabilities which freedom implies, and help us the shape the direction of the future with love and justice that creates a stronger probability of more future love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Easter, May 10, 2024

Ascended Christ, you have become a metaphor for everything having been freed from the limitations of being bodily in Jesus of Nazareth; give us grace not to use your "all and in all" status to justify words and deeds unworthy of what love and justice means in practice.  Amen.

Thursday, Ascension Day, May 9, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, you have left this world in your particular bodily form, but you did not have to leave us a double portion of your spirit because you awakened us to the always, already Holy Spirit as the continuous omnipresence of the divine in our world.  In your absence and memory, O Jesus, let us manifest spiritual Christliness in our world through love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 8, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, you ask of us to be continually drawn upward in surpassing our former vision and panorama of what has happened so that we might integrate all that has happened in making down to earth better choices of love and justice today.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 7, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, you have mystically allowed us to ride your elevator to sit with you in heavenly places in profound inward and peaceful places to give us insightful and refuge perspective upon our exterior world which often are far from peaceful or heavenly.  In your ascension we are elevated to find perspectives of love, joy, peace, love, and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 6, 2024

Lord of the Ascension, we seek the eddying vortex of your rise to be the spiritual energy for us to rise in the ability to offer the highest love and serve for God and for our world which needs to rise Godward rather and sink to be our lesser angels.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 5, 2024

God of Love, let us receive each day greater love, surpassing love to meet the needs of love and justice which continually confront us.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 4, 2024

God who has befriended us to feel like we belong; give us befriending gifts to help others feel that they belong in this world with enhanced dignity or worth and acceptance.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 3, 2024

Jesus Christ, Friend of humanity, let friendship come to the people who need it the most today and in the forms which are most telling to their individual needs.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 2, 2024

O God of Love, be the connecting string of permanence within all the transitory immensely varied events of our lives and give us the sense that all things are always already held together for ever with purposes known and yet to be known.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 1, 2024

God of Time and Change, living process is the continual laying down of the life of what was for the life of what will be; where we have the volitional power let us influence the life that will be with words and deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, April 30, 2024

God, our playwright, Language Originator and Language User, you have give us love and justice as scripts for our lives but you require us to ad lib within the emerging events of our lives; let our acting also be our real lives of seeking to apply justice and love in the circumstances of our lives.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, April 29, 2024

God of Love, how can you bear all things without pinpoint restraining intervention? In freedom you call us to be your weakness and we ask you to give us the greatest strength while being weak to prevent harm, hate, and persecution in our world.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, April 28, 2024

Christ the Vine, through you flows the holy sap of our connectedness with God and all things because the experience of the sublime makes us poets.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, April 27, 2024

God who is love, we extoll and overuse the word love as a superlative cliche of human existence; grant us the ability to do love rather than just talk about its importance.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, April 26, 2024

Risen Christ, as the all and in all, you are connecting vine within all things; teach us to learn the best way to be connected with you, each other, and our island home.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, April 25, 2024

Jesus Christ, the impression that you made while you lived was unleashed by how you became known as the Risen Christ; and while we confess you poetically as being all and in all, let us instantiate your poignant intentional presence in events of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, April 24, 2024 (Genocide Remembrance Day)

God of love, let the rainbow in the sky be a sign to us that the destruction of people on this earth by anyone is a violation of love and justice which proceeds from the essence of who you are.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, April 23, 2024

God, for a world in which love has become a cliche, we confess you as Love, from which every other love is but an imperfect reflection; give us strength for the hardy love of the practice of justice which is applied love for those who need it the most.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, April 22, 2024

Christ the Vine, you are the organically spiritual connection residing in all; grant everyone access to the deep image upon all so that the flow of the divine might make us our best human selves.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Easter, April 21, 2024

Good Shepherd Christ, give us discernment and willingness to be shepherding people who in kindness make pets of those in need to nurture them to be grateful shepherds, who like us learn from our needs to minister to others.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 20, 2024

Shepherd us O Christ, in the care that we need when we need it through your agents who are inspired to help us; and grant us also to be inspired agents of shepherding care when others need such care.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 19, 2024

Good Shepherd Christ, when we need help please send us good shepherds; and when we see others who need help let us arise to be good shepherds.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 18, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, citizens of great empires have come to regard themselves as Christians and yet we as Christians have allowed and been complicit in unChrist-like actions be done in our name; we ask for the impossible in asking that you would convert empires into good shepherds who care for the most vulnerable.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 17, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the good shepherd not of us a commodities in your flock for our human product equivalent of wool and meat; you have made us to be favored pets who bring you joy even as we learn the delight of being drastically inferior to you in the very best ways of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 16, 2024

God, you are the great collective of all life, give us grace in our various human collective to admit what we done wrong to knowingly and unknowingly harm others and our environment; give us the wisdom of a reparative mission to creatively have authentic repentance with genuine actions to redress the results of the harmful actions of those who have left us with some obvious clean up.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 15, 2024

Good Shepherd, give us the grace of shepherding so that we as mere sheep might help other needy sheep to their full life potential.  Amen.

3 Easter, April 14, 2024

Risen Christ, you ate with your disciples in your appearances; let you appearance continual be known in the adequate food supply for everyone in our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 13, 2024

Risen Christ, let your presence be multiplied over and over again under the guise of adequate food for all people in this world as food supports life.  We accept your omnipresence in the enough food for all today.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 12, 2024

Risen Christ, you appeared to your disciples variously including in partaking of food; we receive the Eucharist as partaking of the Risen Christ presence again and again.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 11, 2024

Almighty God, let the power of the Gospel be known by your winsome Holy Spirit; let us never adopt coercive practices to prove the validity of love and justice even as we embrace good laws for the protection of the freedom of all.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 10, 2024

God of creative freedom, it is awesome to confront what freedom means in our world; it often seems a high price to pay for the free possibility for bad things to happen.  Give us a deep appreciation for the real freedom which we have to create the probability that good things can happen through our agency, especially in acts of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 9, 2024

God, we believe in the substantial world which confronts our senses, but we humbly recognize that we only process and perceive this world through the inward and invisible faculty of language; give us renewing inward Easter grace for the lenses of our language to perceive your graceful presence in our world, but not just for perceiving but for expediting creative acts of love and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 8, 2024

Holy Spirit, you overshadowed Blessed Mary for her to realize the special child to be born to her; you overshadow us to help us realize the Christ-image born within us to enable us to realize our destiny as children of God.  Amen.

Second Sunday of Easter, April 7, 2024

Gracious Risen Christ, let us be doubters like Thomas of having any superior experiences of you which would deny the validity of your presence to so many other people in ways which are telling to their specific circumstances.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 6, 2024

God of our faith, give us continual doubt about the final adequacy of what we think we know about you and everything and so keep us humbly open to new understanding in new times of what love and justice requires of us.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 5, 2024

Everlasting God, we know in time we die and we mourn the loss of our compositional state of being dependent upon seeing, hearing, and touching for empirical verification; grant us faith to accept the absolute past of our lives and the lives of our loved ones and let us accept that such objectivity of the absolute past is never lost but contained in the composition of everything which continues including us while we can be empirically verified.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 4, 2024

Come again O Risen Lord and be apparent in new ways to our world; in adequate food for everyone, in justice for everyone, in the defeat of greed and cruelty, be known in our lives.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Risen Lord, we ask again and again when your manifest reappearances will occur; will we find you appearing when peace, love, and justice breaks into our human experiences?  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Risen Christ, we wait for your surprise "peek a boo" sudden appearance which can arise at anytime and place because all things are filled with the glory of God butt sometimes experienced as pain, suffering, and loss.  Give us grace to do our part in shaping the sustaining glory of life toward the outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 1, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ of resurrection continuity; we review the record of your re-appearances, even as we ask for wisdom and insight to recognize your appearances to our world especially within the works of love and justice which happen for people who need the sense of your presence.  Amen.

Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024

Eternal Word and Risen Lord, we look to you for our sustaining continuity beyond the seeming discontinuous event of death; preserve and retain us in your mercy and improve us as we are being continually remade in your image.  Amen.

Prayers for Easter, 2023

Saturday in 7 Easter, May 27, 2023

God who is every where, help us to realize being in the Spirit as a way to live and move and have our being.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Easter, May 26, 2023

Gracious God who is Plenitude; like fish in water, we live in you and a connection with you and everything else; give us grace to work on the best possible connections especially with other people with the excellence of actualized love and justice. Amen.

Thursday in 7 Easter, May 25, 2023

Invisible Spirit, as the wind blows the branches on a tree, let your visible effects be known today in and through us as the words and deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Easter, May 24, 2023

Holy Spirit, conductor of all experience for mutual and reciprocal living; give us grace to submit to your gentle orchestrations so that we might play the harmonies of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Easter, May 23, 2023

Holy Spirit, you are the life force enabling us to be instruments of the divine; blow your breath through us to achieve the love and justice which is needed for our survival and hope for the future.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Easter, May 22, 2023

Creator God, whom we believe to have called creation good; give us the same appreciative care for the diversity of creation and let mutual care be the unifying Spirit of our lives.  Amen.

Sunday, 7 Easter, May 21, 2023

Gracious God, you encourage us to prayer so as to acknowledge at all time the larger context; we know that our specifically located context resides within many unknown causative details; give us grace to accept the mystery of what we do not and cannot know, but give us courage to trust the best of our instincts toward a loving and just world.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Easter, May 20, 2023

Christ who is the sign of divine-human bi-linguality; you lived and spoke human experience divinely so that we might have the best pattern to follow not in trying to emulate all the features of the time of Jesus, but to interpret the message of love into our time and place.  Let our interpretations of your life be known as the practice of justice in our lives.  Amen.

 Friday, in 6 Easter, May 19, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, in your priestly prayer you ask that we might be one as you are one with the Father; give us grace to be the answer to that prayer as we accept our unity with our heavenly parent.  Amen.

Ascension Day, May 18, 2023

Eternal Word of God, you were emptied into the limitations of being a human being in time, but you returned to your pan-linguistic all in allness in the Ascension; grant us an awareness of your presence wherever we go today.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 17, 2023

Eternal Word of God, you are essence of communication and encourage us to use prayer discourse as a way of relating our inner world of mystery with the outer world of sensorial objects; let us exalt our use of language with the habit of prayer and so invoke the angelic messengers of the divine on the ladder between the inner and outer world.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 16, 2023

God who is ever emptied into the created order, and yet remains the fullness of being the All; help us to activated the "emptied" portion of divinity with our lives so that we might had to the harmony of justice and love which is the divine score of the universe.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 15, 2023

Gracious Jesus, we have lived without the majority never having seen or touched you, yet we have in faith claimed access to your inner life of word and spirit; keep bringing the effects of love and justice to his world even in your hidden presence.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 14, 2023, also U.S. Mother's Day

God, in you we live and move and have our being so that we can never be birthed outside of you; we remain ever within the God-womb of being and becoming.  Give us grace to live together well as ever your family with hopes of maturing in love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 13, 2023

God who contains all and lovingly cares for all, you still allow a challenging and oft baffling freedom of occurrences to make life an ordeal and a maze, interspersed with incredible delight and joy to buoy us to continue as we seek to be lured by love and justice as the best way to live in free conditions.  Amen.

 Friday in 5 Easter, May 12, 2023

God, help to accept your immanence even when kindness does not seem to rule the events of life; give us courage to honor the moral significance which arises from the genuine freedom in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 11, 2023

God who ever is creative freedom, we are grateful for having the genuine freedom of agency to contribute to what actually becomes, even as with fear and trembling we honor the awesome task of freely making this world better.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 10, 2023

God, the expanding Container of All in time, let our contribution to the expansion of All be the creative acts of love and justice and so build a better future.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 9, 2023

God who is the Parent of All, we acknowledge that there are many who feel like orphans in our world; give us grace to be active in the work of Jesus who said that he would not leave us as orphans.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 8, 2023

God of expanding horizon, we can never reach your outermost edge, even as you contain us who live and become within you; give us grace to be good stewards of the existential territory where we find ourselves located within the overarching divine milieu.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, May 7, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, we are part of the greater works of the future which you promised would happen after you left; give us your Spirit to keep filling the future with the greatness of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 6, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the way, the truth, and the life; we seek to follow your way in honesty with the hope of abundant life.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 5, 2023

Gracious Christ, you promised not to leave us a orphans and to teach us access to our heavenly parent who has a dwelling place for us; let our bodies be made fit dwellings for the presence as we honor our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, May 4, 2023

God of creation, from your Plentitude we have a home to live in and from the words of Jesus we will have future places prepared for us; give us grace to take good care of the our earthly home and to be those who provide homes for those who do not have a place to live.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, May 3, 2023

O God, the vastness of Plenitude persuades us about the vastness and our connection with all being; give us grace to join with others who are persuaded about the superior values of love and justice coming to all people.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, May 2, 2023

God, because we have language, we confess ourselves as smart parts of Plentitude.  Because we have language, we are persons who see everything as personal, and so we confess you as a personal Plenitude with relational regard for everything.  Give us secrets to good relational behaviors today.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, May 1, 2023

God, you are the dwelling of the universe itself and you send your homing invitations to us as the Hospitable One who has made a place for us and we recognize ourselves today as a dwelling place for You.  Amen.

 Sunday, 4 Easter, April 30, 2023

Gracious and Shepherding God, bring to an end those who use power and position to exploit the vulnerable who do not have the capacity to fend for themselves.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, April 29, 2023

God of Easter, who renews the world through loving service; give us grace to follow the Good Shepherd Jesus who came to lay down his life for his friends.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, April 28, 2023

Holy God, we are so lost in your All-ness, that we cannot but humbly be but short occasions within your constant expanding creating environment; give us grace to pursue enlightened togetherness in your All-ness today.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Easter, April 27, 2023

God of everything circumstance, we can know plenty and we can know need; let the situations of plenty and need be matched today to balance human living with wise reciprocity for the common good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, April 26, 2023

God, we confess you as our shepherd, because you are more than the exploitive shepherds of this worlds; you care for us not for our potential products but for the delight of friendship.  Grant us courage to oppose the exploitive relationship in our world so that we may lovingly delight in you and each other.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, April 25, 2023

God, whom we assume is a Language User, because we confess you as language users to be Word made flesh; give us the humility to avoid limiting you to but our words about you since they necessarily must be mixed with every possible word that could be.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, April 24, 2023

Gracious God, we are given the image of Christ as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his friends; give us grace to lay down our lives with the redirection of our life energy for the good of others.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Easter, April 23, 2023

Gracious God, we cherish the surprises when the Sublime meets and encourages us with hope; we asks for adequate surprises to be discovered today to motivate plentiful survival for the manifold peoples of this world.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 22, 2023

God who is mostly incognito in the world in any specific way you are best known in the plenitude of everything, altogether, all at once; give us grace to live with the mystery of everything, altogether, all at once while being diligent to make particular the meaning of your best Name of Love.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 21, 2023

God we live in the unknowing of things happening in ways that we didn't hope for and we live with the resolutions of past uncertainties becoming present certain knowledge; give us the faith in the now to assume hindsight certainty as present trust based upon our knowledge of your loving heart for us.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 20, 2023

God who has been unveiled in serendipitous moments to many; thank you for the surprises of your apparent favor and let these surprises help us to highlight the general sustaining presence of the divine milieu in which we live and move and have our being.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 19, 2023

God whose presence is experienced by us as apparent or non-apparent; give us grace to retreat to your omnipresence even when you don't seem so obvious in the manifestation of seeming negative outcomes of freedom in our lives.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 18, 2023

Christ of the resurrection, you have become the one proclaimed as All and in All; let this general omnipresence be made known as specific presence to us in our efforts to become more Christ-like in our behaviors.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 17, 2023

Omnipresent God who is also known as Christ as All and in All; surprise us today with the sublime presences which we need to live and promote the love and justice needed to sustain the people of the world today.  Amen.

The Second Sunday of Easter, April 16, 2023

Gracious God, teach us holy doubting when inappropriate interpretations of life do not fit; give us open minds to be renewed in what is appropriate to love and justice in each situation.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 15, 2023

God of surprise, the introduction of resurrection gave a new narrative for hope; give us grace to ever keep hope alive in the lives of as many people as we can today.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 14, 2023

Gracious God, give us wisdom to recognize the many resurrection appearances of Christ in our lives today, and help us to enable others to see these appearances tailored to their own life experience.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 13, 2023

Enlightening God, you have let us know that having language allows us to know and name things in our inward and outward lives; help us to name things aright so that justice for each person and each occasion might be pursued with greater clarity each day.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Christ who is All and in All, forgive us when we limit the ways in which you can become known to those who seek to do good.  Give us joy when others find you in unsuspecting places.  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Gracious God of the future, we doubt because of tentativeness of all things, and because what we do now depends upon an endless future to be fully known; give us hope for future on future today.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 10, 2023

God of resurrection; death happens in the context of everything else having happened; teach us to not separate death from everything else including us never being ready for the changes of death on personal relationships and community.  Amen.

Easter, April 9, 2023

Gracious God, on this day we celebrate that Jesus knew himself again after he had died and his disciples knew him too; help us to live in the hope of being preserved for having lived because nothing can ever be subtracted from having been.  Amen.

Prayers for Easter, 2022

Sunday, The Day of Pentecost, June 5, 2022

God of all and in all, we look for what is most interior about our interiors.  In vain we look for precise causation since it rests upon so many unknowable precedences and we feel limited to the surfaces which language creates by naming.  As we flit from words referring to other words, help us to accept our lives as language art lived before the Holy Spirit whom we presume to be beneath the surface of every word.  Amen.

Saturday, Eve of Pentecost, June 4, 2022

Holy Spirit, you are the clean Heart of divine immanence which we seek as a resource to cleanse our interior springs which drive the motivations of our lives.  We confess you to be God Accessible to all and we want all to respond to the Accessibility of Holy Spirit as the Clean Heart of divine immanence.  Amen.

Friday after Ascension Sunday, June 3, 2022

God of Creative Plenitude, Redemptive specificity, and Holy Spirit personal glue of everything; teach us that since we are stuck together forever we need to learn to honor our connections with the best of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday after Ascension Sunday, June 2, 2022

Gracious Knower of all possibilities, we thank you for being patient with our freedom for things to move from the possible to the actual; and so we pray that the perfect will of the heavenly actual will find expression in the hard actualities of the free conditions of our world that includes the probability of the clashes within infinite number of things in an oft seeming bumper car existence.  We ask for resilience to survive the clashes and for alchemical grace to see golden outcomes from the pre-golden developmental states.  Amen.

Wednesday, after Ascension Sunday, June 1, 2022

Holy Spirit, we do not see you and yet we confess your Being from your effects that are known in our world and life.  You may be the sub-microscopic sustainer of the world, even of those who violate their freedom with evil behaviors.  Inspire us to use your power of sustenance for the intervention of doing the good which overcome evil.  Amen.

Tuesday, The Visitation, May 31, 2021

Gracious God, we commemorate in the bonding of Elizabeth and Mary, that natural birth is marvelous, and spiritual birth carries with it the designation of miraculous since it comes with realization of being over-shadowed by the Holy Spirit for the knowing of Christ in the us, the hope of glory.  Let us know the spiritual birth which makes us poets to declare a Magnificat on behalf of all the lowly in our world. And let Blessed Mary lead us into the liberation of all who are vulnerable.  Amen.

Monday after Ascension Sunday, and Memorial Day, May 30, 2022

Lord Jesus Christ, you had the greater love to lay down your life for your friends; we are thankful for those who put themselves in the place to do the same, and we pray that we might live lives worthy of those who sacrificed their lives in the cause of love and justice.  Amen.

Ascension Sunday, May 29, 2022

Christ of the Ascension, it often seems that you have left the "Jesus on the Cross" forsakenness experience with us when we observe the needless slaughter of the innocent due to people of greed and power who seem to make guns omnipresent to be available to people who suffer anger and crazy whims.  Please help people who have much realize that much is required in the care of the vulnerable and let not greed be promoted as a virtue.  Amen.

Saturday after Ascension Day, May 28, 2022

Creator God, you could call all creation good because you regarded yourself to be Goodness and you impart goodness as the supernature of our lives.  Help us to live up to that goodness in what we do and say today.  Amen.

Friday after Ascension Day, May 27, 2022

Holy God, Jesus is gone from our sight but Christ is closer to us that we are to ourselves.  Give us grace to live from the Christ Nature within us that we cannot see but to whom we make available to be seen through and acted through.  Amen.

Ascension Day, May 26, 2022

Ascended Christ, we confess you to be the continuation of Jesus of Nazareth in an invisible mode but with returning effects found within all, and particularly within those who have discovered their personal identity formed and constituted within the story of One who sets us on the path to bring Risen Christ effects incarnate again in lives lived toward love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Easter, May 25, 2022

God, our parent, we ask what would Jesus pray in the midst of a prolonged war with the deaths of the innocent, and in the continuation of gun deaths affecting us in frequent intermittent events.  We observe the heavenly weakness in submitting to the condition of human freedoms to hurt each other by people unpersuaded by the wisdom of care and love for each other.  We ask for the preponderance of good in people to turn the tide against the freedom for people to be evil in hastening the deaths of others.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Easter, May 24, 2022

God of time, who made time and who becomes in time, let us not see the coming of Christ as second or final but as continual and serendipitously available at any moment in time to hearts open to the discovery of their original blessing.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Easter, May 23, 2022

Eternal Word, you inspire us to become more versatile in being worded-beings in your likeness; give us grace to know the language which has physical and outer objectivity and the language which has inward and spiritual objectivity, and teach us the spiritual objectivity which creates the concrete situations of love and justice in the exterior environments of our lives.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Easter, May 22, 2022

Eternal God, many in our world are in need of an Advocate, a Holy Lawyer, a Holy Friend, who will make the case for their well-being to themselves and within their material and social situations.  As the suffering Job found his Redeemer, let the suffering people of our world today find the Redeemer Advocate tailored to the specifics of their needs.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Easter, May 21, 2022

Eternal God, let the Christ-effect continue to descend upon the people of this earth especially as it is known in peace, justice, and love.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Easter, May 20, 2022

Eternal Christ, we the world lost sight of Jesus of Nazareth a long time ago, but the Christ-identity remains with us.  We pray that the Christ-identity will not be misrepresented by people who do not endeavor to practice truth, justice, and love of one's neighbors.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Easter, May 19, 2022

O God, we are told that we cannot see you and live and that may be the poetry of our lack of capacity in face of your greatness; we ask only to see you in part, in the parts of your immanence within creation and the sum total of all of the parts of being, becoming, and time with still be surpassed by your future greatness.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Easter, May 18, 2002

Gracious God, send us the Interior Advocate so that we may be convinced about the divine likeness which is upon our lives.  Let us be convinced today that the valuing of our own lives goes hand in hand with the valuing of the lives of others in our world.  Remind us that racism is fear about the value of our lives which results in the wrong belief that people different from us are a threat to us.  Help us know that the Christ nature in us is the Christ nature in each person.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Easter, May 17, 2022

God, we live our lives often in the state of being misplaced and living as alienated from our true God-given identity; give us the homing direction to return to the place of being at home in the family of God.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Easter, May 16, 2022

God of all-encompassing greatness, we need a profound Advocate to mediate the harmonious interaction of our particular lives within the orchestra of all that is.  Give us the Holy Spirit to help us find our complementing roles within the human community as we seek to be good stewards of the gifts of the earth.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Easter, May 15, 2022

God of the future of everyone and everything, we hold to a reconstituting resurrection of all things because the very painful transitional event of death is so pronounced in our lives.  You have made everything good, even though good things have gotten revised often to be less than good.  As Easter people, we ask for grace and faith to live toward the goodness intended in creation, as we hope for newness in heaven and and earth.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Easter, May 14, 2020

O God, whose theophanies seem to suspend our sense of time and space with the sublime; we seek grace to transform the experience of the sublime into the basic grit of life when the meaning of love is not for us to be spiritually high, but to do the hard work of justice.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Easter, May 13, 2022

God of Plenitude who seems to keep us unknowing and lost in Plenitude; there is too much that has happened and is happening for us to be able to collate and issue final judgments about anything, since there is always tomorrow with the arrival of more qualifying information.  Help us to accept the filters of love and justice in our immediate contexts as being reliable to do your will in our lives.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, May 12, 2022

Gracious God, the gift of providence to each of us is the gift of heuristics in coming to insightful purpose.  And we seek humility regarding the insights of purpose because we know that our current and future experience will continually adjust how we assess the purpose of the events of our past lives.  Give us the humility to admit that our life stories are always in process.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Easter, May 11, 2022

Gracious God, it is hard to believe in Easter in a war torn land of continuous death and dying.  The positive providence of war seems impossible or too far off to bring hope to the suffering and the dying.  As we apply the resurrection as a band aid to the dying, let the resurrection also be healing to wounded, and courage to those caught in the throes of the hell of war.  Let Easter hope take all of the forms it needs to take in the lives of those who are threatened by harm.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Easter, May 10, 2022

To the One that which none greater can be conceived, the vision of there being a new heaven and new earth proposes a radical new orientation when inward reality includes the reality of different kind of physical life.  And is there coming a day when we only live by Eternal Word as spiritual reality without any reference to the physical world?  Keep us in our bodies and in our world and give us grace to know how to use the eternal Word as an analgesic in our times of pain.  And let our pain be evidence of our love for our lives and the lives of other.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Easter, May 9, 2022

Gracious God, as we believe in redemption and reconciliation, let us not be proud in thinking we can declare what reconciliation might be while people are in the midst of horrendous suffering.  The lives of people in the moment are too valuable to trade them for a future perceived good.  As we hope for redemption and reconciliation for the people of Ukraine, let us not minimize their suffering now.  There is no greater good known in the moments of suffering and in the name of Jesus who suffered, we oppose the harming agents of evil.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Easter, May 8, 2022, Good Shepherd Sunday

Lord God, called our Shepherd, and who sent Jesus to be our Good Shepherd, you call us to be good shepherds in our world today when we have power, knowledge, and wealth to use to help the vulnerable.  As we want help when we are vulnerable, let us be those who are ready to help the vulnerable and so get the reward of being empowered shepherds.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Easter, May 7, 2022

Eternal Word of God, the words we have are like filters through which the light of our seeing is projected and these words become our versions of reality.  Help us to continually update our word filters so that they can help us to see in ways which motivate us to walk humbly, love mercy, and do justice.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Easter, May 6, 2022

Eternal Word of God, our most significant impairment in life is language impairment, in that we have learn so many patterns of misinterpretation of both external and internal reality, and we are prone to act out on habits of bad interpretation.  Let us hear the Good Shepherd voice as a way to correct our language impairment through Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Easter, May 5, 2022

Eternal Word of God, whose essence is communication; we want our interior lives altered so that we might hear and see you with different kinds of perceptive ears and eyes within the circumstances of our lives today.  Let us know new seeings and hearings of you today.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Easter, May 4, 2022

Gracious Christ, we have come to poetic meaning of you as Shepherd and Lamb, not to confuse us with contradiction, but to appreciate that God is with us in the mode of sustaining care, but also submits to the genuine freedom of the world in also being with us as a Lamb who went to the slaughter of his death.  Even as we prefer the Shepherd mode, we ask for grace to accept the identity of suffering with and together that is represented in the presentation of you as Lamb of God.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Easter, May 3, 2022

Christ the Eternally Good Shepherd; you commission us to use our power, knowledge, and wealth for the care of others.  Forgive us when we have failed in our call to use our resources for the general good of others, especially for the those in immediate indigent need.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Easter, May 2, 2022

Christ, our eternal Word, your infinite wordiness, has left open the possibilities of of many, many, voices to be heard.  We seek the discerning capacity of loving justice, doing mercy, and walking humbly as the perceptive guidelines for knowing which voice to follow in our lives.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Easter, May 1, 2022

Gracious Christ, who is All and in All, yet who is often not seen because our lenses of perception are so unpracticed in reading divine in-breaking in our experience; let us have a barrage of showings of the Risen Christ so that we might be converted to the kind of love which helps us live together well.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Easter, April 30, 2022

God, who inspires us with the normalcy of freedom from pain and harm, be with those for whom the threat of harm is an ever-confronting reality in their defense of their homes and families during war.  Inspire vigilance and heroism to protect the vulnerable and homes and give the defenders a vision of future safe homes for the children of the future.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Easter, April 29, 2022

God of Surpassing Excellence, give us grace to forge our identity on what we seek to be in surpassing ourselves in excellence rather than thinking we want to avoid being like the people for whom we have no affinity.  Let us build our identity upon the God of goodness rather than the weakness and frailty of humanity.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Easter, April 28, 2022

Christ, the Eternal Word, through having words, we confess that you are the Word which is wisdom in linguistic manifestation which organizes and creates because you provide the filter for every human perception in knowing that we can know in the ways in which we know.  As you are the eternal playwright, give us grace to follow the script which you have written to have us walk the stage of life in love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Easter, April 27, 2022

Eternal Christ, if you are All and in All, since Word is implied in any consciousness or perception, the limitations of you as the Jesus of history has distilled into becoming an omnipresence of the relational essence of all things.  Keep us on our toes today to be ready to find you under the rocks of human experience which we turn over today.  Surprise us with your "peek a boo" presences.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Easter, April 26, 2022

God of Peter and Paul, you took some strong personalities and made their strengths work for and with you rather than against you and others in community.  Send to your transforming Spirit upon us and give us the strength even where we have been weak as we prove the alchemy of God in our lives.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Easter, April 25, 2022

God of Peter and Paul, you embrace and inspire different pieties and different missions in and for different people.  We are but funnels of your Plenitude and sometimes the limitations of our funnelling filters get in the way.  We thank you that you disperse your grace uniquely different in and through each person.  Amen.

The Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 2022

Gracious God, forgive us when we doubt the reality of the experiences of the Risen Christ of others, especially when they include the signs of your Spirit, peace, the evidences of being sent to do the work of Christ's love, the practice of forgiveness in community.  Thank you for giving us Word in the form of the inspired words of others in speaking and writing to help us come to the persuasion of faith.  Amen.

Easter Saturday, April 23, 2022

God of creative process, in an ever-changing world, we can easily doubt the stability of any understanding; give us grace to move with you in a moving of occasions of befores and afters, and give us the ability to articulate the newness of resurrection life to new situations which we encounter today.  Give us wisdom to make the adjustments to the new without being stuck in old answers to former situations.  And let us confess that what does not change about you and all things is continuous change to the destinies of surpassing reconciliations.  Amen.

Easter Friday, April 22, 2022, also Earth Day

God of creation, we might question your managerial wisdom in making us tenants in the world.  We have usurped ownership rights from you as the landlord of the universe and trashed our planet without regard for you and those who will need to live here after us.  We confess our abuse of the gift of the Earth, and we ask for grace to be restored in the stewardship role which you intended for us.  Amen.

Easter Thursday, April 21, 2022

God of all time, you did not exhaust your presence within the thirty something lifespan of Jesus of Nazareth; you have been always, already manifest as Eternal Word and immediate present in communicative ways to all who have come to language.  Let us not doubt the efficacy of your many presences as we explore the meaning of Christ as All and in All.  Amen.

Easter Wednesday, April 20, 2022

God, who presides over the changing and expanding world in total occasions of becoming; what is left behind from yesterday is reason for doubting of yesterday's answers to today's situation.  Help us to be really willing to embrace something new even if it surpasses our previous preconceptions, so like Thomas we can come to a new experience of saying, "My Lord and My God!"  Amen.

Easter Tuesday, April 19, 2022

God of full spectera of truths; I do doubt the competence of my knowledge of you and life as being yet complete, and I seek greater adequacy in meaningful truths so that I might articulate the multifarious presences of the Risen Christ, whom we confess to be All and in All.  Amen.

Easter Monday, April 18, 202

God of everlasting life, as we awaken in the immediate aftermath of the celebration of Easter joy, we are challenged by how much Resurrection work there is left to do in our our world.  Give us grace to access the joyful energy of resurrection life through the power of the Holy Spirit so that we might help make your will be done on earth as it is in heaven in intentionally special ways with the people and places of our lives.  Amen.

Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022

God of everlasting hope, the hope that is not a taunting us for what we cannot be, but an invitation to be be on a path that has self-surpassing in goodness as an everlasting quest; give us grace not to delay the good things to an afterlife, if we have the ability to achieve them now, especially the deeds of love and kindness which are within our power to do.  And though hope means things in our life will be unfinished, let not the attainable be left unfinished.  Give us your apparentness in Easter grace to do the things that we need to do.  Amen.