Prayers for Epiphany, 2024

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

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

Monday in Last Epiphany, February 12, 2024

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

Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 11, 2024

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

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2024

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

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2024

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

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2024

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

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2024

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

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2024

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

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 5, 2024

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

Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 4, 2024

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

Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2024

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

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2024

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

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2024

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

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2024

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

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2024

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

Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 29, 2024

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

Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 28, 2024

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

Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2024

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

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2024

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

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 25, 2025

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

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2024

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

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2024

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

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 22, 2024

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

Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 21, 2024

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

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2024

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

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2024

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

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 18, 2024

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

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2024

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

Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2024

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

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

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

Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 14, 2024

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

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2024

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

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2023

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

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2024

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

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2024

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

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 9, 2024

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

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 8, 2024

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

Sunday, 1 Epiphany, January 7, 2024

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

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2024

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

Prayers for Epiphany, 2023

Shrove Tuesday, February 21, 2023

God of compassion and forgiveness, let our day of shriving be followed with genuine amendment of our lives so that we do not mock and abuse your generous mercy.  Amen.

Last Monday after the Epiphany, February 20, 2023

God of mountain top experiences, we want to live on the mountain top and not face the conditions of probability which result in loss, grief, and woe; give us grace to know that the light of the mountaintop still shines within us in the deepest valley of life.  Amen.

Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 19, 2023

Risen Christ, your story was told including the story of Jesus on the Mount of the Transfiguration; let us bear your uniqueness as God's Child in our lives being transfigured by the Holy Spirit, and made evident in lives of justice and love.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Epiphany, February 18, 2023

God of the mystery of negligible in all that we know, keep us humble about what we think that we know so that we can be open to the new which shatters our preconceived notions.  And let us also remember there is much more that we don't and cannot know, and if we cannot know, let our continuing ignorance be complemented with works of love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Epiphany, February 17, 2023

God who is highest, let us have mountain top experiences which enlighten us to bear up with the clouding mysteries of life, and let us have the light of wisdom to guide our transfiguration in betterment.  Amen.

Thursday in 6 Epiphany, February 16, 2023

God, who has made us as people with language, we are thoroughly categorized by meanings of how we use and are used by our language; give us grace and wisdom as organizing the persuasions of our lives around what is good, just, and kind for everyone.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Epiphany, February 15, 2023

Gracious God, the designation for the one for whom no greater can be conceived, you gave us Jesus to be the Superlative for human living; give us grace to live toward him as a standard of being good, just, merciful, and kind.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Epiphany, February 14, 2024

God on a day of secular love anchored by sentiments of Eros and Cupid, we look to you who is Love itself inspiring us to go beyond the mushy and sentimental and do the hard word of justice, which is realized love.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Epiphany, February 13, 2024

God of light, we seek the path of continuous transfiguration even as our bodies diminish with the passing of time.  Let light be the continuous insights that we attain in the ever adjustment to all the factors in our environment today.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Epiphany, February 12, 2023

Gracious God, you ask that we be perfect, not to torment us about our imperfection, but to encourage us about our perfectability; give us grace to accept the path of repentance as continual renew of our lives toward what is better.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2023

Gracious God, who in this world can claim to have perfect inner life unless below our inner life we can know Holy Spirit as the pure heart of life itself.  Help to know the depth of the Clean Heart of the universe.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2023

Gracious God, we cry to have clean hearts created in us and right spirits renewed within us, because we struggle to align good behavior with good inner motives.  Let our failures bring us to accept grace even while we keep at the practice of trying to do what is good, loving, and just.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2023

Jesus Christ, your words state that we must have clean and pure inner lives to accompany our lawful behaviors; we confess that we often are possessed by wrong motives and uncharitable thoughts to the point of needing continuous forgiveness.  Give us grace in our efforts to allow the Holy Spirit to be the clean heart in our lives.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2023

Gracious Christ, the words you left to us in the mouth of Gospel Jesus remind us to true up our stated ideals with the actual practice of those ideals.  When we fail to practice, let us not call the ideals bad or unattainable, but let us keep on the path of excellence while accepting your excellence as a substitute for our lack, even while we continue our journey on our best versions of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2023

Gracious God of time, if our future acts contradicts our current acts, let those contradictions be defined as more loving and more just.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2023

God beyond all appearances, help us to be more concerned about our mere appearance of being good and lawful; give us spiritual grace to continually challenge the merely good, with the surpassing better.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 5, 2023

God who inspires the Law, we find ourselves often keeping the law in our outer behaviors even while inwardly we host thoughts and feelings contrary to law and order.  Give grace to our inner selves to submit to the order of love and kindness always.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2023

God who is light and sent Jesus to be the Special Light of our world; help us to be filaments of the light of Christ and show forth wisdom, love, and justice in all our words and deeds.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2023

God, who desires peace, you inspire continually laws to help teach best behaviors in human situations; help us to be in the process of law-making as we work to make our behaviors to comport with the highest expressions of love and justice in the actual situations of our lives.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2023 (The Presentation)

Gracious God, your Child Jesus was submitted and submitted to ritual behaviors of his faith community as he was Presented in the Temple.  Help us to know the soundness of our ritual practice as they mark our progression in faithful living.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2023

God, you gave us light to see and yet we do not always see well enough to make love and justice operative in our lives; give us the graces of continuous insights so that our words and deeds may be wisely informed toward the ends of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2023

God, you give us laws to teach us recommended behaviors in the direction of perfection; give us grace to be on the path of being better each day and let us so encourage everyone in the betterment path as individually tailored to their life situation.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2023

God in all, your omnipresence is the salt of life which seasons all creation.  Help us to savor the divine season of your presence so that we too, might be salt for the seasoning of our world with love and justice.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 29, 2023

Jesus Christ, you left the sayings of the beatitudes to oppressed people who had no earthly power; give us who have been free from persecution to be those who use our earthly lives to end oppression.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2023

God, save us who do not know the conditions of the beatitudes from being those who in positions of wealth and power knowingly or unknowingly force persons to have to live the truths of the beatitudes for their very survival.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 27, 2023

Lord Jesus Christ, you left your words of blessings with wisdom for living as oppressed people and we ask for the beatitudinal grace for all oppressed people, but we ask also for us who have materially benefited from the oppression of our forebears to have the courage and grace to right the wrongs of the past in the current life conditions of the heirs of oppression.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2023

God of the impossible, you sent Jesus to confound us with impossible standards, not to frustrate us but to show us that we are always on a road to being better and we tolerate ourselves by relying on the grace of divine completion.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 25, 2023 (The Conversion of St. Paul)

Gracious God, we thank you that in the conversion of St. Paul, you used a Christ-centered rabbinical tradition to bring more peoples of the earth into the knowledge of their place in your love for all.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2023

Gracious God, help us to live the ideals of the beatitudes and keep from being those who force others to live the beatitudes to survive our oppressive and persecuting behaviors.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2023

Give strength God, for those who live in the situations of oppression and persecution; bring to an end tyranny through people who have the power to stop it and set free all oppressed peoples.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 22, 2023

Christ who is our Light and our Epiphany, keep calling us over and over again with new calling to new situations and keep us from being stuck in old callings from yesterday in  different times and places and so let us be renewed in new epiphanies.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2023

Eternal Word of God, new epiphanies arise in what comes to language in the experiences of language users and we need insight to interpret the significance of what is new as it is blended by the versions of what has happened before.  Give us the wisdom of interpretation of new insights which promote the ends of love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2023

God of Light, let new epiphanies happen today to bring our lives to peace and love and justice in what we do and say.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2023

God, who can become apparent, give us grace to board the epiphany train as we seek to be conduits in the manifestation of the love and justice of Christ to our world.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 18, 2023 (The Confession of Peter)

Gracious God, without knowing what he was saying, Peter confessed Jesus to be the Messiah, even as Jesus told us that God's realm was to be known as near and apparent in his life.  Give us grace to live in God's realm and give us lifestyle wisdom to make God's realm apparent to others.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2023

Charismatic Christ, be our coach to release our charisma so that we might be winsome livers of the high Christly values of love and justice today.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2023 (Celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Gracious God, we thank you for the epiphany which Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to America and the world as he rebuked us with peaceful kindness and called us to be our better selves.  In his life, the realm of Christ came near to us and we ask for grace to accept the conditions of that realm, the conditions of love and justice.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 15, 2023

Gracious Christ, as we bear your name as your follower let our deeds also be Christ-like so that we may bear your name with the integrity of your love for all.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2023

Gracious God, your singular name which refers to superlative great being is an abstraction or reduction from your continuous omni-becoming of creative love.  Give us grace to be more concerned about doing Christ-like behaviors than being called a a name which identifies with a certain religious group.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2023

God, let the epiphanies of Jesus Christ help each person in the world to find their calling to make this life better for everyone.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2023

God, who is the continuous Epiphany of all epiphanies; provides us each day in revelatory moments new insights to live better as individuals and societies, and let the standard of what is best for us be love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2023

Gracious God, give us the wisdom not to make equivalent all evil and all good and so discern the direction of our moral progress and moral judgements in the direction of being better today than yesterday for the most number of people possible.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2023

God of Epiphanies, give us the grace of interpreting our knowledge of you in ways which manifest the love and justice of God to the people we encounter.  Let us not count as epiphanies things which are not worthy of your loving kindness.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 9, 2023

God of Epiphanies, you continually bring us to new conversions with new knowledge and new information about the realities of life and living; give us openness of heart to new epiphanies as we journey toward our better selves.  Amen.

1 Epiphany, The Baptism of our Lord, January 8, 2023

Christ, the Eternal Word, you were a participant in the human ritual of baptism as witness to your full solidarity with our humanity;  give us grace to fulfill the baptismal ideals in our daily living as proof that God the Holy Spirit has baptized our inner lives.  Amen.

 Saturday after The Epiphany, January 7, 2023

God of all, we thank you for the poignant reminder that you are for and with all and that you cannot be limited to any one particular culture, language, or social group.  Keep us true to your omni-accessibility. Amen.

The Epiphany, January 6, 2023

God who is Omni-Manifest in all things, we thank you for being particularly manifest in Jesus Christ as God-Person reaching out to all people to find their own God-personhood through the indwelling of the Risen Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Prayers for Epiphany 2022

Shrove Tuesday, March 1, 2022

God of Time, who inspires good timing in our lives, we bemoan the many mistimings in our life when in ignorance and willfulness we have done things to foster the tendency of things unworthy for our well-being and the well-being of the people in our lives.  On the eve of the season of Lent,  provoke us to work on our intentions to get into wise timing with the insights of love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, and faith.  Amen.

Monday in The Last Sunday of the Epiphany, February 28, 2022

God of Time and the one who inspires good timing for all occasions of life, your permissive real freedom allows all sorts of mistimings to occur to the harm of many and the clashes and conflicts within human systems and eco-systems; give us grace to find the wisdom of good timing to act and say in our lives as we resist the forces of temptation which seek to get us off the schedule of love and justice for all.  Amen.

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 27, 2022

O God of time's patterns of metamorphosis, representing the spiraling of time creating the differences of before and after, let us be transfiguring in an spiraling evolution toward the love and justice of all people which befits the dignity of the glory of Christ which resides in people whether they know it or not.  Amen.

Saturday in 7 Epiphany, February 26, 2022

God of time, death is permitted in time, and we ask that all deaths might be good deaths appropriate to the dignity of life of each person.  We ask that forces which seek to make death happen before its time be restrained, especially the aggressive forces of war.  Amen.

Friday in 7 Epiphany, February 25, 2022

God, we ask for threshold angels in passage between life and death especially those who are trapped in the banality of war, on the side of having to fight for a tyrant, and on the side of defending one's home and people.  We ask that life that need not die be spared to bear the normal actuarial life expectancy uninfluenced by the horrors of war which skew the statistics toward more dying.  Lord have mercy and deliver us from war.  Amen.

Thursday in 7 Epiphany, February 24, 2022

O God, whose image upon all is our dignity, we fear the loss of the dignity of life in aggressive wars.  We ask that all non-aggressors and the vulnerable will be protected as the forces of greed seek to take more on behalf of the very few.  We pray for the mercenary soldier who is trapped in having to fight to secure the wealth and power of the few.  We ask for the overturning of the interests of the most greedy, and that protection and care comes to those who need it the most.  Amen.

Wednesday in 7 Epiphany, February 23, 2022

God of everlastingness, help us not to isolate our current moment from the reality of what has been, what is and everything that will be.  But let not the immensity of the everlasting dissolve the poignant significance of making the current moment count toward love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 7 Epiphany, February 22, 2022

O God, who supports the cycles of life, which include transfigurations; help us to retain the hope and optimism of the transfigured moments of apparent presence in the time when the sublime does not seem as apparent.  Amen.

Monday in 7 Epiphany, February 21, 2022

O God, in your sustenance of this life, we use the memorial traces of what has happened to us before as explanatory vocabulary for the freshness of our experience now, and we hope that the freshness of the now is able to add to our experiential reservoir in a positive way so that we might be more inclined in our future experience to interpret, act, and speak in the ways that are consistent with love and justice.  Amen.

Sunday, 7 Epiphany, February 20, 2022

Lord Jesus, to whom we attribute the beatitudes; help us to receive the Spirit of the beatitudes in converting people of privilege and power to put our resources to overcome the oppressive conditions of our world.  Amen.

Saturday in 6 Epiphany, February 19, 2022

God, we know that our lives are not endless residence in our bodies, even as we cannot be blind to the great Continuity of Existence which we live in and which will survive when we are no longer visible in the realm of physical sight.  Give us grace to leave as a legacy God-inspired acts of love and justice in the visible realms of our lives today, even as we know that the work of love and justice also works in the invisible interior realm of people but has external consequences.  Amen.

Friday in 6 Epiphany, February 18, 2022

Oh God, known through Jesus and the early Christians, our tradition was born among those who proclaimed an imminent end of all, and to carry this imminent end of all as a dominion of not caring for our environment, we have not loved and cared for this world enough to leave a pristine place to our children of the future.  We have mistaken the longevity of this world and we ask that our behaviors of apocalyptic fatalism find ways of corrective preservation for people of the future.  Amen.

Thursday in 6 Epiphany, February 17, 2022

O God, who has shared the divine image within all that is visible and invisible; we ask for insight and wisdom to know what the divine omnipresence requires of us today for excellence in using our freedom in the very best situational way for the common good of all.  Amen.

Wednesday in 6 Epiphany, February 16, 2022

O God of love, the words of Jesus promote radical love and forgiveness and we shudder in our failures in both.  Keep the ideals before us so that we might ever be working to convert possible love to actual love in our words and deeds.  Amen.

Tuesday in 6 Epiphany, February 15, 2022

O God, originator of marvelous diversity, we give thanks for the Black people of our country who built the original wealth of our country without reward and as slaves without the justice ideals permitted to them by persons of extremely blind hypocrisy.  Grant honest justice to work an overcoming and equal good for people who have been so harshly wronged by the cruelty of the past, so that the future of people so wronged by past oppressors can be one of hope.  Amen.

Monday in 6 Epiphany, February 14, 2022

God who cares for those without power, how can we adjust the values of the beatitudes to lifestyles of plenty?  Teach us the value of to whom much is given, much is required.  Amen.

Sunday, 6 Epiphany, February 13, 2022

God who is mysterious and unnameable because human's version are not adequate, we live by our versions of you and each other, and we need help in having our versions of you and each other be cleansed by the influence of love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 12, 2022

O God, who has given us interior lives to process all that we experience in our exterior lives; give us emotional intelligence, wisdom in sentiment especially to work the kind of empathy which can bring healing in our life settings.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2022

God of abundance, we seek to be rich in the kind of treasures which are lasting and which contribute to a better future of our world.  Let the gems of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness, and justice be the legacy of our wealth today.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2022

Gracious God, we seek you as the complementing immanence of all that we face in life and we seek your inside work on the hearts of people even away from our knowledge of what you are doing as a compensating presence in the middle of conditions which seem hopeless.  We trust that apparent woes are being experienced as alchemical blessings through the magic of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2022

O God of justice, we have law as a process of trying to approximate in practice an elusive justice since time is so open and continuous, justice is not something to reach but something to always be reaching for.  Help us not to grow weary in the ceaseless reaching to approximate justice with laws which can teach us recommended behaviors worthy of the quest for justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2022

God of Creative Freedom, I fear many of the negative consequences of true freedom that has been shared with all things, even my own misdeeds, and the freedom of people to be hurtful and hateful, as well as the seeming mistiming between systems of nature and the presence of people which results in harm.  Give the created entities the inner wisdom to effect harmonious outcomes so that the harms might be limited to but the results of aging in time, and beyond our aging in time, let us hope that nothing good will ever be lost but will resurrect in transforming future goodness with the personal continuity to recognize that goodness.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2022

God of fully disperse immanence; the traces of you are everywhere and leading us to the right relationship with you, everything, and everyone  Please verify for us in our life situations that love and justice is what is definitive of being in a right relationship with you, everything, every happening, and everyone.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2022

God, you are presented as holy and Other from us even while we assume the experience of your Otherness is a valid human experience; Isaiah heard the visible in the invisible sing "holy, holy, holy," in Hebrew, and we too seek the realm of the sublime to inform the directions of our lives invoking the energy of holy becoming the work of love and justice in our world today.  Amen.

 Saturday in 4, February 5, 2022

God, beyond our capacity to full know, but who has come to us in language in our dominate identity as language users, give us grace to do an inventory of the values of our lives and be honest about how our words and deeds are connecting with what we are proclaiming to be the chief values of our faith.  And give us humility to accept that we are not yet where we want to be, and at the same time not give up the high standard to which we must be called if we are going to be better today than we were yesterday.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2022

God who is eternal Word, in Word there is a call happening toward us at all times in a wide variety of ways.  We seek to have the discerning filters into our life to screen and isolate the particular callings to us as they arise, develop, change and expand our capacities to experience the further calling of the Eternal Word.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2022

God who is also the Call that is happening at all times; we cannot avoid you as a Plenitude and the Personhood of Plenitude because having language means that everything has the relationship differential relationships of personhood.  Give us grace to respond to your Call as sheer Presence first, but then also specifically articulated in events of response to this Call in deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2022

O Jesus, in your Presentation, you were a ritualized person within a community and a family that valued you because you were God's gift presented to us so that we might know how we can be presented as living sacrifices to God in this life and in our afterlives.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2022

Holy God, we are given the word holy to proclaim the difference of your divinity known in the sheer quantity of what you include in your everlastingness, but also in the unique quality of continuously creating in freedom and allowing all that is created to partake of freedom in the significant ways which make choosing love and justice the highlight of human existence.  Grant us the grace to honor the divine gift of freedom through the practice of love and justice as the best way for creative harmonies to occur.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2022

O God who is everywhere, forgive us for our willingness to be spiritual but not religious, when it means that we avoid the particular call of God which comes to us to be God's messenger in particular times and places to particular people who might be just as imperfect as we are.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2022

O God of Love, your love is unique in capacity to be able to endure all things and so impart moral significance by the appearance of weakness in singular free events, even while being the entirety of the field of probable free outcomes in the world.  The greatness of your complete love swallows up the unfolding events freely happening in time and inspires us to never be weary in the efforts to freely overcome evil with goodness which partakes best with particular divine love.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 29, 2022

O God of hope, if love is hoping all things, forgive us for hoping only for things that pertain to the outcomes of love and justice, even while we know that the realm of the possible indicates some unpleasant probabilities because of freedom.  But in hope, we seek for the overcoming surpassing of evil with Goodness.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2022

God of everlastingness, since you will be the last and latest One, we believe that Providence rest in your composition, and because we also call you Love, we ask that love become providential in actual ways in our lives now.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Epiphany, Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022

O Great Preserving God, we remember the six million people who were not regarded as having worth to live the expected probable conditions of life because they were Jews.  We commit their lives to your preservation in an everlasting rest, and we shudder at the human depravity which perpetuated such a diminution of life itself.  In remembering, let us not forget, and in not forgetting let us affirm and value the life of every person.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2022

O Holy One, about which none greater can be conceived and the realm of pure Possibilisms, let us bring forth in time from the infinite realm of the possible, things which are actual to love and justice today in the lives of the people we meet.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, Conversion of St. Paul, January 25, 2022

God who must be universally promulgated if the reality God is to have full meaning, we give thanks for the conversion of Saul, who underwent changes to receive a new name as Paul, and who understood that the Risen Christ was the means of promulgating the God who was available to all and become self-consistent for those who confessed the Divine One.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2022

O God of the Love which bears all thing, believes all things, hopes all things; such is unattainable for us because we want to limit what is actual to what is most convenient for us and for how we view what is best for our world.  The Awesome Love of the purely possible and what has become actual in human experience is beyond our bearable limits, and in faith we defer to greater Love to be our Guide.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2022

O God, who gives the good news of Love to us who are poor.  Help us to realize our poverty and be in the humble state of mind to accept the good news of love which we need to motivate us to spread this good news to people in the diverse states of poverty.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 22, 2022

O God who anoints with the Spirit to bring good news to the poor; forgive us for using the words of the Bible for mainly bringing good news to those who are not poor, while failing in our bringing good news to the poor because we too often are on the side of the free market which favors the rich.  Help us to get back to the basic task of the Gospel, bringing good news to the poor.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2021

Holy God, whom we need even when we don't think so; forgive us for treating other people as though we don't need them and expose our own rebellion against relationship with you and others.  Give of willing hearts to acknowledge that we are always already related with All.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2022

God, who cares for the lowly, your Son Jesus Christ said that the Gospel was good news to the poor; we confess that we have not had this as our Gospel value in the way that we have constituted our societies.  We ask for the grace of becoming converted to a creativity which results in the spread of good news to all who suffer poverty.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2022

O Spirit of God, you have inspired and created such diversity and poured the blessing of freedom into us a willful human beings which even allows us to exalt diversity over unity and get ourselves in petty disputes at best, and wars at worst.  We ask for the power to use our wills to freely return to the power of you as a Spirit of unity and thus have grace to become those who orchestrate the beauties of harmonies.  Amen.

Tuesday, in 2 Epiphany, Confession of St. Peter, January 18, 2022

Gracious God, forgive us when we confess Jesus to be Christ, Son of the Living God, Savior, Prince of Peace, and much more, but then fail woefully to understand and live up to these high confessions.  Give us the faith of Peter to persevere in coming to know and live in honest ways what we confess about Jesus the Christ.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2022

O Eternal Word of God, when you were made flesh in Jesus, you said that the good news was to be for the poor.  Help us to have the same priority as Jesus did in bringing good news to the poor.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2022

Transforming God, you have given us the spiritual alchemist, Jesus Christ who united all things so that the ordinary can bear the extraordinary and allow us the intoxication of the divine presence in the outer appearance of drinking ordinary water.  Let us know the intoxicating divine presence in the water of our ordinary lives.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 15, 2022

O God our Maker and Creator, you have made us people who can create, as people who have gifts, and you have attached to our creativity the awesome burden of freedom.  Help us to wed freedom and creativity with strategies and actions for the common good as is expressed in loving our neighbor as ourself.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2021

O God, we ask for signs in our lives of you, even as we use the derivative features of God as Eternal Word to do so; help us to know that the Sign of your presence is always already within the worded existence.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2022

Let us O God, know that the ordinary water of life experience can also be tasted as the vintage wine of the inner fountain of the Holy Spirit, accompanying everything that we do.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2022

Holy Spirit, giver of gifts, let us not take and develop our gifts from you unless we also receive from you the greater gift of love which we need to regulate all gifts for the common good of the community.  O Spirit, let us seek the greater gift of Love.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2022

Immanent God, your presence is in the profound and the trivial, when we experience great gain and the uncanny, but also when we experience the losses due to the free conditions of constant change.  Help us to have faith in your presence as the great equalizer in all things that are going through constant change.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2022

O God of spiritual alchemy, to know the Risen Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit is to know intoxication with joy while drinking but the seeming ordinary water of life.  Give us this intoxication so that a domino effect of delight can come to the people we serve.  Amen.

Sunday, 1 Epiphany, the Baptism of Our Lord, January 9, 2022

Gracious Jesus, your baptism was one more occasion of the divine Word being made flesh and expressed as God's solidarity with us as people, in all our messiness and imperfection.  You went into the waters of the Jordan at your baptism and raised the boats of human moral and spiritual expectation because we are now asked to be more Christ-like each day of our lives.  Amen.

Saturday after the Epiphany, January 8, 2022

Gracious God, we were made to be initiated into the image of God upon our lives but we have lost and often lose our direction; we thank you that Jesus represents God as immersed or baptized into full human life even to a human death, so that we might ride the elevator of the resurrection of Christ to restoration in the image of God on our lives.  Amen.

Friday after the Epiphany, January 7, 2022

Omni-present God, your immanence is found everywhere and so epiphanies can occur when we allow our gates of perception to be open to the always-already Christ nature which can arise within us.  Let the manifestations happen today for many and let it result in love and justice.  Amen.

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2022

God whose very concept would imply univerality, and whom we believe to mark the existence of language users with signs of sublime presence; we thank you for the manifestation of the Christ-nature, as in former days known as the image of the divine upon each life, and in the days of Jesus Christ and his post-resurrection reality, as the spiritual baptism manifest arising of the Risen Christ to be the epiphany in the lives of those who desire it.  Amen.