Prayers for Lent, 2025

Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025

Thy Death, O Jesus, is seen as an end of the pain from the flogging, the pierced hands and feet and side, and but a temporary rest for your body in a sepulcher; we reverence the three day state of your liminality before your many reappearances in becoming known as the Risen Christ as all, and in all.  Amen.

Good Friday, April 18, 2025

God, we require intoxication with Hope to call this day Good; and child-like giddiness to say that all manner of things will be well indeed.  Give us the faith to interweave hope with loving and just actions with the harsh reality of what the oppressive forces and their pawns, even ignorant ones are doing in our world today, and let us not use Hope falsely as an excuse for passive acceptance of tyranny.  Amen.

Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2025

God, you gave us Jesus as exemplifying human hospitality and service; give us the strength to fulfill the actions of the Maundy Thursday event by embracing service for the feeding and care of those in our world who need it.  Amen.

Wednesday in Holy Week, April 16, 2025

God, the eternal Word, be within us the invisible but actual source of initiation of language products of speech, writing, and body language which result in loving and just outcomes in our lives today.  Amen.

Tuesday in Holy Week, April 15, 2025

God, among all the taxing requirements of living, let us pay the necessary requirement with gratitude what Jesus taught us, namely, love and service for the justice of the people of the world.  Amen.

Monday in Holy Week, April 14, 2025

Give us grace, O God, to ponder this week the converting power of love, to convince people with wealth and power that greed and oppression are bad for their own lives, if not excruciating worse for those who are victims of their knowing and unknowing oppression.  Give us a vision of perfection as the completeness of all knowing profound dignity.  Amen.

Sunday, Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, April 13, 2025

Jesus the Christ, on this day we observe that crowds proclaimed you as a king who did not do preconceived kingly things; another crowd derided you about your non-kingly behavior in dying on the cross; and yet we accept the apparent foolishness of an apparent weak God dying within the freedom gone amuck in this world.  And we must confess that God as shared Freedom is supreme.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Lent, April 12, 2025

God who encompasses all probabilities; we are subject to the intermittent events of sorrow and joy, sometimes combined in ways which require faith to live with such ambiguity; give us realism about life's ambiguities but let us privilege joy as our ministering task to help those who are brought to events of sorrow.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Lent, April 11, 2025

Jesus, our spiritual poets say that you are God emptied into human experience, even the human experience of death; give us faith to accept that God is with us through everything even in the sustenance for even the conditions of death to occur, but let us know how to be with each other with human comfort in the inevitability of loss.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Lent, April 10, 2025

God, we have made the death of Jesus the greatest death to promote his afterlife as the invitation to the greatest afterlife; give us grace and humility to live with the knowledge of death and afterlife, not presuming to know too much, but simply embrace that we are all together in life and death.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Lent, April 9, 2025

God of Life who encompasses in time our lives and deaths, we posit you as more than than our lives and deaths because your Plenitude precedes and follows the duration of our lives; if birth and death are the bookends of our stories, let us cherish them with qualitative living that is known in practice as love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Lent, April 8, 2025

God of Life which includes death, including the death of Jesus which defied actuarial life expectancy logic; cruel oppression which creates untimely deaths is part of the mystery of evil that we are forced to adjust to and even resurrection as acceptance of death does not erase the events of losses which we have felt as we cling in faith to a future which will convince us that everything in the past has been meaningful and purposeful in having fulfilled its unique contribution to a better future.  And yet we ask how can a better future actually remove the extreme pain of the past loss except that it is ended and over?  But will memories ever be healed?  Is it enough to say that because I felt hurt, it let me know that I was truly alive?  Amen.

Monday in 5 Lent, April 7,2025

God, we live with the apocalypse of death to come to each of us; and death has as many meanings as there are people and moments in time; we thank you that you are Life which encompasses deaths in time and within your great Life we look for continual meanings of everything which ends.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Lent, April 6, 2025

Great plenitudinous Container of All, we are born within you to live as perpetually baffled ones because of our smallness; in pride we often conflate the analogies from our circumstances to be true of the whole and yet we accept our tropes of language to be meaningful within the meaning of the entire linguistic universe which perpetually deconstructs our words which ripple to the edge of all that have been said and done.  We offer you today humility because we have no other truthful status.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Lent, April 5, 2025

Everlasting Word of God, give repetition to the words which help to script the lives of all to instantiate Christ-likeness with speaking, writing, and acted out body language deeds of love and justice.  Let the words of the propaganda of evil greed be thwarted by reconstituting words of goodness.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Lent, April 4, 2025 (The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) 

God, our minds play a what if game today, in asking what if Martin Luther King, Jr., who died on this day at the age of 39, had lived to a normal life expectancy?  We thank you God for what Dr. King has inspired even as we mourn the conditions which brought his early death and the conditions which persist in our world of not yet living up to our ideals of equal justice under the law.  Give us courage not to compromise the ideals of justice that define our better angels.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Lent, April 3, 2025

Everlasting Word in space and time, writing needs space, speaking needs time, body language needs sequences of before and after; the potential linguistic universe will never be fully uttered, acted, or written; let us make the words in our time fill the script of times with words and deeds of love and kindness.  Amen.

Wednesday, Wednesday in 4 Lent, April 2, 2025

God who encompasses the total community of everything; keep us from the mob esprit d'corp of being united to do wrong things as a group and falsely absolving us as individuals for that wrong; give us a group spirit for love and justice to do the very best for the greatest number of people.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Lent, April 1, 2025

God, give us the humility to not presume perfection today, and not to let perfectionism falsely accuse us for what we can't be; but give us the courage to affirm our perfectability as we are ever repenting toward being better today than yesterday.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Lent, March 31, 2025

God whose love is excessive in magnifying seeming endless differences in the play of freedom in time; give us wisdom to apply excessive love in the works of love, mercy, and justice, toward the Christ who is buried within those who direly need love, mercy, and justice.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Lent, March 30, 2025 (Sunday of the Parable of the Prodigal Son)

God, forgive our prodigal ways in being alienated from the divine image upon us, and forgive our judging ways when we think that we're your exclusive children and others are not.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Lent, March 29, 2025

God, of reconciliation, how can we hope and believe in ultimate reconciliation without minimizing the excruciating pain and suffering that occurs in individual events?  Is the sum total of all occasions passive reconciliation by being a sheer quantity of events within a great Container?  Can love accept that all pain and suffering have a surpassing future value?  Give us faith to live in the seeming unreconciled events of this world.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Lent, March 28, 2025

God, whose version of life we assume is all encompassing; let our limited versions of life be offered in humility for their obvious partial scope, but let them in small ways be part of the scaffold of love and justice in our world.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Lent, March 27, 2025

God, we often doubt that in our world of freedom with conflicting outcomes that reconciliation is even possible; yet we ask for the grace for insights into words and deeds of reconciliation which can promote the peace of living together well for the common good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 26, 2025

Loving God, we seek to emulate you in being loving ourselves, even as we can be prodigal in wasting the gifts of life for ourselves and other, or we can proud that we are better than those we consider to be prodigal; give us willing hearts to respond to your love that our prodigal states of waste and our prideful judgments of others might end as we are converted to loving behaviors.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Lent, The Annunciation, March 25, 2025

God of Angels, personified messages and messengers; we name in story the high message to Mary to impart the importance of how we regard the impending birth of Christ into the world and into our inward lives; clarify freshly to us what the best mystery of our inward beings is as we continuously say, let it be, to the birthing of Christ in us.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Lent, March 24, 2025

God, who being the Container of All means that we're all in this together; help us seek the harmony of reconciliation to be our goal in the constant work of taking what has been and making from it what can be more loving and just.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Lent, March 23, 2025

God, who is creative freedom, and who shares true freedom with everyone and everything in the world as a field of probabilities in play; help us to honor the gift of freedom in the degree that we have it with choices which influence the future field of probability toward love and justice.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Lent, March 22, 2025

God, whom we confess to be comprehending everything, everywhere, all at once, we only confess your Totality because we assume our particulars exist in a plethora of unknowable differences; give us humility to accept the minuscule partial perspectives which we parse in time sequences but let us not minimize our efforts to reflect what love and justice mean in action.  Amen.

  Friday in 2 Lent, March 21, 2025

God of Becoming in Time, let us regard our time as your loving patience to give us more opportunity to become our better selves particular in loving our neighbors as ourselves.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Lent, March 20, 2025

Eternal Word, in doing and becoming, we presume a birth into knowing and consciousness in having language; as we are thankful for having language as our image of the Eternal Word within us, give us grace to be so constituted by the language use in our lives that we may become words and body language deeds of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Lent, March 19, 2025

God of Time and in Time, we experience and process time in many ways, in cycles or spirals of repeating patterns, in seemingly simple linear cause and effect, in expansive webs of interrelating events, in branches of of different probabilities; and we can be so overly mystified by causality that we are tempted to passive fatalism; give us insight and courage to do the immediate acts of seeming justice and love before us and the grace of forgiveness if our motive for love and justice do not always result in the same.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Lent, March 18, 2025

Divine Patient One, you outlast everyone even while in omnipresence you bear the elasticity of becoming in time; we are becoming having our own eternality of being born from everything that pre-existed the phases of us and after our recognizable phases which come to language leave any state of recognition or memory, we submit to the mysterious kind of preservation that  we can only have in your everlastingness.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Lent, March 17, 2025

God, grant us humility to be honest about what we do not know about causality but give us courage and clarity to change the things at hand which foster the outcomes of love and justice.  Amen.

Sunday, The Second Sunday in Lent, March 16, 2025

Jesus you lamented over the conditions of the Holy City and inspire us to lament over the needless killing which happens in our towns and cities throughout the world because of oppression and the greed which hinders us from practicing safety regarding the proliferation of harmful weapons on our streets.  Give our lawmakers wisdom and courage to enact the policies of salvation known as best safe practices.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Lent, March 15, 2025

God, we somethings regard ourselves and our places to be so special as proof of your divine protection with us, and then we remember Jerusalem which has risen and fallen, risen and fallen; we ponder the religious justification for evil in public office as we are baffled by the probabilities of what can happen in the true freedom which allows the strong to trample the weak; we are ever seeking aftermaths when evils collide and allow goodness and kindness to squeeze through as the grout and mortar which preserves us into the future.  Let us today be the  mortar of sustaining goodness today, even if but barely visible.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Lent, March 14, 2025

Great God, humanity is often like scattered chicks under attack by the preying foxes of life; provide us with mothering hen grace to shield and protect the vulnerable from the greedy and powerful forces of oppression of those who proclaim empathy as a fatal human fault.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Lent, March 13, 2025

God who is everlastingness, we humans often think that things seems to be so bad as to portend an end to sort out a final justice, are also those who know that joy can arrive in the morning when we don't expect it.  Give us grace to continue to hope for an end to injustice, and the experience of joy in the morning for those who have suffered.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Lent, March 12, 2025

God, you have sent prophets to give us correction for behaviors of greed and oppression of the poor and greedy and oppressive people often kill them or their messages; do not let the mothering care for the vulnerable of this world be eliminated and let the conviction of to whom much is given, much is required become the practice for the common good.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Lent, March 11, 2025

Christ, you are presented under the metaphor of a mothering hen who wishes to shield and protect the weak, dependent, and vulnerable; give us such a mothering ministry in our world to nurture the vulnerable even into their own eventual mothering strength.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Lent, March 10, 2025

God you are Duration Itself even as all that is not durable passes through phases of becoming and transforming in appearances at variable rates; give us courage to perform the durable deeds of love and justice which can replicate themselves in new forms in future events so that God as Love will know continuing manifestations.  Amen.

Sunday, First Sunday in Lent, March 9, 2025

Strengthens us O God, as we resist the great inward accuser who would challenge that the image of God is upon us as children of God; give us wisdom to discern the diversion tactics that arise to delay or impede our growth into the maturity as people of love and justice.  Amen.

First Saturday in Lent, March 8, 2025

Eternal Word of God, whose reservoir of words we have come to have access to in our interior lives; give us wise inner constitution of our words so that as we see through them we can organize our lives with the best timing in our lives to perform the works of love and justice for the common good.  Amen.

First Friday in Lent, March 7, 2025

God whom we conceive of as the Omni-heroic; we confess our need for exemplary  heroes who can help us find correct timing in our lives amid the maze of probable outcomes; we thank you for the heroic Jesus who exemplified apt timing in doing the right things in the right way and in the right motive for the love of the people of the world.  Amen.

 First Thursday in Lent, March 6, 2025

Jesus, we turn to you as the Christ in our interior wilderness who confronts the accuser and trickster within us who would have us mistime the goodness of life by doing things in the wrong way at the wrong time.  Give us insights to resist the falsehoods which tempt us to call evil good, and good evil.  Amen.

Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025

God of life which includes the demise event of death; we bear the ashes of remembrance of the passing of the remnants of bodies in their state before integrating with their environment even as we celebrate the invisible sustaining and recreating force which preserves with the accrual of an everlasting age all that has gone before.  Let us cherish and steward life as we see and know it so that what is born from what is now will be enriched with the wise stewardship of our lives now.  Amen.

Prayers for Lent, 2024

Holy Saturday, March 30, 2024

God, on many days we wait while it seems like your beneficial present is dead and absent in our world of death and suffering; give up hope to believe in the continuity of substantial personal identity of all whom we have lost.  Amen,

Good Friday, March 29, 2024

God, you are with us totally in an omnipresence which encompassed death when Jesus died upon the cross; today we return to the icon of suffering and weakness knowing that you do not prevent the freedom for people to be evil; grant that we might receive the identity of Jesus with death as the power for us to die to what is unworthy in our lives so as to make room for transformation of such seeds of death with new sprouts of teeming life.  Amen.

Thursday in Holy Week, March 28, 2024, Maundy Thursday

Hospitable God, your Son provided the Eucharist as a way of modeling the entire world sitting today at an agape feast with enough to eat and in peaceful fellowship; keep us working toward the exalted aspirations of the Eucharist as the holy agape feast of God with humanity instantiating reciprocal service as our survival.  Amen.

Wednesday in Holy Week, March 27, 2024

God of light, as it sometimes seems that the light of hope is being gradually extinguished in the dire circumstances of human grief; give us hope in your eternal flame which can always relight the world through people who open themselves to your renewing Spirit.  Amen.

Tuesday in Holy Week, March 26, 2024

God of the Passion of Christ, we walk in our accessible traces of how the Christ event has been regarded within our history; as we remember those traces, we also pass on those traces and thus etch deeply the groove of belief that you are with us in every life circumstance even if such with-ness does not always seem to be in our immediate favor and partakes of the voice of Jesus saying, "my God, why have you forsaken?"  Amen.

Monday in Holy Week, March 25, 2024

God of the sufferers and who suffers with us; grant to us during this Holy Week to find the paths of being living sacrifices, in obedience to our identity with Christ, and for the benefit of the people of this world.  Amen.

Sunday, Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion, March 24, 2024

God who is omnipresent in our suffering and who partakes of the weakness caused by genuine freedom and freedom's outcomes; let us know the reverse power of the seeming victory of death and suffering over us to be but the prelude to what is next in the scenes of hope for us and the world.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Lent, March 23, 2024

O vastness of God, the ocean of your plenitude requires that we find rafts of identities to traverse vastness in time; give us grace to apply justice and bring together all the rafts of human identity into an island of hope for the common good of all who derive their being from you.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Lent, March 22, 2024

God, the scream evils of war, hatred, and harm, seem to drown out the obvious fact that sustaining continues in life and death; you as Sustainer, are before, during, and after the appearance of every weal and woe on the stage of continuity; let us know that sustaining cannot never leave and let us not fear the changes which can occur upon your sustaining ground.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Lent, March 21, 2024

God, you are more than I can know or say you to be and it is fearful that you have the ability to be all things to all people.  You become unknown, irrelevant, or a silly notion to many even while if you are All cannot ever be avoided;  give us the wisdom to promote the obviousness of the connectedness of All rather than to make local liturgical practices the telling truth of your presence.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Lent, March 20,2024

Great Continually Surpassing God; give us the humility not to overestimate our knowledge or our power but give us courage not to underestimate what we can do in  small things in our circumstances to contribute to future common good.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Lent, March 19, 2024

Give us, O God of beauty, the ability to appreciate both the simple and the complex, and know when we are abstracting unity from total number of occasions of becoming.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Lent, March 18, 2024

Grant us strength to weather the increasing complexities of life because of the incredible proliferation of world knowledge; as old ways are being dissolved, let us find rafts of love and justice on the ocean of knowledge.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Lent, March 17, 2024

God of all possible language expressions, the co-existence of every expression creates the conditions for supreme irony such that the Cross of Jesus becomes a state of glory.  Give us faith to uphold your ultimate irony upon everything such that what confronts us as impossible is reconciled within future outcomes.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Lent, March 16, 2024

God of all, invite everyone to the priesthood of lives being offered in solidarity with all as living sacrifices; and let our sacrifices promote love and justice in our world.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Lent, March 15, 2024

God who makes history providence by outlasting all occasions by being continuous Becoming; the death of Jesus has become a spiritual process for us to die to what is unworthy and be renewed toward what is better.  Help us to know the submission of our selfish egos for loving you and our neighbors. Amen.

Thursday in 4 Lent, March 14, 2024

Holy Spirit of God, we commit to you the impossible human task of making unity out of diversity; give us the wisdom of orchestrating differences into a harmony which can balance the simplicity of unity or oneness with the complexity of differences.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Lent, March 13, 2024

God of who inspires us to doubt any sense of final sufficiency; give us the humility of continual reappraisal of our values so that we might ever be looking for surpassing values on which we can model our personal identities.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Lent, March 12, 2024

Lord Jesus Christ, you were not saved from death, even as we are not either;  give us the hope of endless continuity so that we can have future time to make the baffling and present have a greater context for more graceful meanings.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Lent, March 11, 2024

God of all, in our day Gentile means the "other" who have often been excluded from the salvation programs of society; give us the heart of Jesus to extend the welcome of love to all so that we might faithfully represent you as God of love. Amen.

Sunday, 4 Lent, March 10, 2024

Eternal Word, give us grace to inculcate the values learned from our inherited traditions, but give us open hearts to love beyond our tribal formation toward your love for everyone in the world.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Lent, March 9, 2024

Eternal Word, since our human life is founded and known because we have language, let us work to have the meaningful expressions of language in speaking, writing, and body language be witness to our best quest at living lives of love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Lent, March 8, 2024

God who comprises the greatest collectivity of differences, you have placed us among different people with the task of living together well as it is known as justice for each member;  give us the largesse of heart to live beyond the affinities of our own tribe as we seek for the categorical imperatives of love and justice for all.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Lent, March 7, 2024

Eternal Word of God, generating continuous meaningful occasions of becoming; let our new syntheses of meaning today integrate what has happened for us in ways that first help us to survive, then to act is better ways, and further to enhance the common good.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 6, 2024

God of grace, your mercy is abundant in the seeming endless chances that you give us by the continual sustaining of everything; give us light toward our continual improvement in the practice of love and justice let those who hurt the common good know that they are hurting themselves.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Lent, March 5, 2024

God of the future which will reinterpret the meanings of what we think we are experiencing now; give us grace to live without knowing the full implication of the outcomes of what we do now, and let us be bold about love and justice being our current motive and goal.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Lent, March 4, 2024

Gracious God, we interpret the life of Jesus as your love for us in being completely with us, not to abolish freedom, but to give us the example of the direction that we are to choose to act with the deeds of our lives; grant us to honor the freedom of perfectability by becoming more loving and just in our actions today.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Lent, March 3, 2024

Gracious God who is the flowing life at the sub-molecular level of all, give us a wise connecting flow of our interior lives with the exterior lives so that peace, love, and justice might be the visible outcomes.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Lent, March 2, 2024

God who preserves by continuously being the compilation of all that is which retains all that has been; help us not to fear the loss of what has, is and will be the chief values of life, namely love and justice.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Lent, March 1, 2024

God of the ever created great MORE, keep us humble about our importance in the great scheme of things and let us seek the perfection of completeness which comes from joining with others in the work of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Lent, February 29, 2024

God of omnipresence, forgive us for limiting your presence to temples; and teach us that as the body of Jesus was a temple of your supreme presence, so too are our bodies, and in fact the body of the entire world which bears your glory.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Lent, February 28, 2024

Eternal Word, give us the wisdom of language use to appreciate the variety of discourses which pertain to the many ways of communicating what it is to be fully human; help us to avoid the falsehood of interpreting wrongly the nature of the language being used so that we might rightly defend the validity of spiritual discourse.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Lent, February 27, 2024

God of love and law, we thank you for law as it teaches us to love our neighbor as our selves and we ask for grace not to use our performance of our codes of law to imply that we are better than others.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Lent, February 26, 2024

Eternal Word of God, you have made us in your image as languaged beings; give us the wisdom to articulate the discourses of our lives to the appropriate uses of the manifestation of the languages of spoken word, writing, and body language deeds.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Lent, February 25, 2024

God of all, forgive us for tolerating the tacit hypocrisy of our own favored communities while being so discerning of the faults of others; give us grace to continue in kindness as the hidden source of survival in the midst of seeming rampant and systematic oppression.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Lent, February 24, 2024

God in whom we live and move and have our being; we cannot see your boundaries and we often limit our love for only those with whom we have affinities; let your inclusive borders expand the direction of our love so that we might grow in our love for this world as you inclusively love this world.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Lent, February 23, 2024

God, you inspire the mysticism of who have come to know an interior identity with Christ, let the higher power results of identity with the death and resurrection of Christ empower repentance in our personal lives so that what happens in our social lives manifests the excellence of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Lent, February 22, 2024

God of all, help us to be global enough to commit to you the things over which we cannot directly control and help us to be very local in doing the immediate good in our power that we can do.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Lent, February 21, 2024

God of time, the before dies and is replaced with the after; give us wisdom to make every after a surpassing in excellent love and justice with what has gone before.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Lent, February 20, 2024

God who can be referred to as All; we don't enjoy everything which moves and has being within your Allness; give us the courage to influence the field of probabilities by overcoming evil with good.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Lent, February 19, 2024

Jesus the Christ, we often would only want you to be the triumphant one and not the suffering one, even as we would rather not have to incorporate suffering into our life experience; give us grace to be able to embrace and survive all the probable things which may happen to us today.  Amen.

Sunday, 1 Lent, February 18, 2024

God, you gave us Jesus to be for us the one who was bilingual in being what divinity would look like if it were limited in appearance to human experience; we thank you that Jesus was a witness of you inflicting yourself freely by being completely with us in temptation, suffering, and death and so incorporating all probability within the scope of your becoming.  Give us grace to incorporate what may come to us and let subsequent meaning beyond what is happening now redeem us and let us know that we have been always already together in and for all.  Amen.

Saturday, February 17, 2024

God, what will happen lies before us with a freedom that makes us both excited and trembling; help us to have wisdom to isolate from our past and current experience the ability to embrace what might happen to us next.  Amen.

Friday, February 16, 2024

Gracious God, give us grace to live with global things which we cannot directly change, but give us courage to accept the small but indirect acts of justice which can have eventual domino effects on the global level.  Amen.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Bless our Lenten fasts, O God, with the result of impulse control which gives us the true freedom to practice the kind of justice to distribute enough to everyone in our world.  Amen.

Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Gracious God, we know that our material existence can be reduced to ashes and recycled into the physical world; we ask that our sub-atomic life of spirit can be recycled into world as causative for future goodness as we leave irrefutable legacies of love and justice in the human chain of causation and let future good be a witness to our humble anonymity in being lost in the common good.  Amen.  

Prayers for Lent, 2023

Holy Saturday, April 8, 2023

O God, on this Holy Saturday, we enter into the Sabbath Rest of Jesus in his death to all that is unworthy in life and in our lives in particular.  From our rest from what is unworthy we await the resurrecting Spirit of Christ to use the members of our body for goodness and love.  Amen.

Good Friday, April 7, 2023

God of Great Creative Freedom, you shared aspects of that freedom with all even to the point of Pontius Pilate freely condemning Jesus to death on a cross; give us grace to use the freedom that we have to live toward loving and just outcomes.  Amen.

Maundy Thursday, April 6, 2023

Providing and Sustaining Holy One, you reveal the survival of human community found in eating holy and life giving meals together, and in the service to each other; we commit ourselves again to offering Eucharist and to mutual service.  Amen.

Holy Wednesday, April 5, 2023

O Christ the sun, your light was eclipsed by the darkness and shadows of death for your Tenebrae; give us grace in our tenebrae to survive the hours and days when it seems as though Hope has lost.  Amen.

Holy Tuesday, April 4, 2023

O Continuous Plenitude, we know you by having Eternal Word found us as human beings with language, and we define the beginningless and the endless Continuity with stories; we thank for the stories of Holy Week which challenge us to come to meaningful engagement with life and death and to enhance the meanings of our lives with justice.  Amen.

Holy Monday, April 3, 2023

God of time, give to us a week of holy remembering of the events in the life of Jesus and so interweave their meanings with our lives in search of continuous meaning of what love means for us and our world.  Amen.

Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, April 2, 2023

God of justice, when just people hear either Hosanna or Crucify him, let us be with the crowd who valorizes love and justice for all.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Lent, April 1, 2023

Encompassing God beyond life and death, help us not to use the cross of Jesus to minimize the actual horrors of the event of death in the feelings of those who suffer the loss of their loved ones.  Give us faith to live with uncertainty and the delay in knowing the meaning of pain and death.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Lent, March 31, 2023

God of freedom, we suffer under the deeply sad inconveniences of death and harm when they happen before reaching the ages of life expectancy; in our untimely losses the field of probability becomes changed and we beseech your grace to live hopefully within new horizons of imminent probabilities.  Amen.

 Thursday in 5 Lent, March 30, 2023

God of all, give us grace to discern what we do within our identity in the crowd with whom we lodge; give us boldness to leave the former influences of our lives when love and justice is not the motive for peer actions.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Lent, March 29, 2023

God, whose Son ask for his killers to be forgiven because of their ignorance; enlighten us to move each day from our ignorances to see more clearly what wisdom asks of us in the cause of love and justice.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Lent, March 28, 2023

God of Mystery, we are amazed at the continuity of the confessed personal relationship with Jesus of so many throughout history when so many others in history are forgotten; we honor the knowable Christ found in our lives today.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Lent, March 27, 2023

Gracious God, the death of Jesus came to be called a good death in the providential confession of those who knew him in his afterlife; let us not diminish life by over-glorifying his death unless we use the power the inspiration of his death to prolong abundant life for as many as possible.  Amen.

Sunday, 5 Lent, March 26, 2023

Everlasting God of Time, we continually wait with hope for ordinary history to be understood as a surpassing providence of goodness for our lives and the life of our world, and in faith we hold on to resurrection reparation of all things with justice, forgiveness, and love. Amen.

Saturday in 4 Lent, March 25, 2023

God, whose image is buried within everything, you creatively are always already resurrecting previous occasions to new occasions which retain likeness of the previous.  Give us grace to be in the flow of creativity and with freedom add to new life with excellence.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Lent, March 24, 2023

God, you are the poetry of Plenitude, the endless reservoir of Word creating words to come along side what we experience and provide us with the meanings to grow in love and justice.  Inspire us to translate the poetry of Plenitude into the words and deeds of love, grace, and just today.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Lent, March 23, 2023

God, who is Word, you have give the words Bread, Way, Life, Resurrection, Truth, Vine, and Lamb of God as metaphors for teaching us the many ways in which you are with us.  Thank you for being as close to us as our language is close to us.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Lent, March 22, 2023

God of former times, current time and future time; you let us know in Jesus that the divine omnipresence is resurrection life always for everyone.  Give us the grace of aware of such resurrection life even now.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Lent, March 21, 2023

God of all seasons happening everywhere, when it is spring for us, it is fall for others; we invoke your presence upon the time of our life today and we beseech your favor upon us to spread love, kindness, and justice in all the seasons of our life.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Lent, March 20, 2023

God of life, you give us the sense of afterlife before we die and this hope strengthens us in our progressive demise; let the hope of betterment motivate our lives today.  Amen.

Sunday, 4 Lent, March 19, 2023

God of such Light, our seeing eyes are ever adjusting to your brightness; help us to see more clearly today the ways in which we can be rightly related to everything, everyone, our own histories, and in ways which are honest, just, and loving.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Lent, March 18, 2023

Gracious God, your perfection keeps us moving and changing and improving our seeing of what is good, right and just.  Forgive us our judgments from our continuous comparisons of each other and of we once were and let not our imperfection make us timid in progressing toward what is more just and loving.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Lent, March 17, 2023

God of love and justice, keep us on alert about new paradigms of thought and action which will make more manifest the practice in our world, the truth of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Lent, March 16, 2023

God of Time and Future, as we wait for the future to fill the fuller meanings of what is happening now, let us not procrastinate to do love and justice now.  Inspire us to know that justice and love always results in a better future.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 15, 2023

All-Knowing God, we are grateful that you do not hold us accountable for what we do not yet know because of our situation and capacity; keep us open hearted and open minded about the new insights which can yet transform our lives in excellence.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Lent, March 14, 2023

God of Light, let your light enlighten us to see beyond mere appearances and plumb the nuances of inward grace and let us be inspired to let the moving words of Scripture make us very literally and externally loving and justice.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Lent, March 13, 2023

Gracious God whose Spirit inspires self control, give us grace to be good orchestrators of the multiverses which can accompany our conscious lives from within.  Give us wisdom and arising insights to propel us to be better at love and justice in our various situations.  Amen.

Sunday, 3 Lent, March 12, 2023

Gracious Word of God, let our words and deeds today give cause to know that love and justice can be empirically verified by those who consistently experience them in our lives.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Lent, March 11, 2023

Eternal Word, you have made us to realize that we are worded beings who come to signify everything in and with words; give us the grace of good word ability to be able to sew together our inward lives from which words are born, with our outer world as we try to make the life of love and justice actual in our various locations.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Lent, March 10, 2023

God, who is All, let us not reduce you to dogma to divide us from people who don't agree with us; let us respect the mystery that is appropriate to the Infinity which should make our humility inevitable.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Lent, March 9, 2023

Creating God, from the plenitude of all that is past a new present arrives; give us grace to integrate the old with the new arisings and let that integration be completed with the goal of more kindness and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Lent, March 8, 2023

O God, on whom we project language use even to the confession as the equivalence of God with Eternal Word; give us the grace of wise use of the language in our lives in our speaking, writing, and behaviors.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Lent, March 7, 2023

Gracious Word of God, words have come to code and classify our interior lives and our outer world; give us grace on how we use classifying words and let the qualifying words of love and justice be prominent is how to elevate our worded lives in speaking, writing, and body language acts.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Lent, March 6, 2023

God, whom we don't see; help us to be awaken to our perpetual inwardness as what often is seen as seeming negligible inner linguistic programming of how we have been coded to act.  Let the insight of Christ as eternal Word open us to new inner re-programming toward becoming more Christlike and allowing the divine nature to be through us.  Amen.

Sunday, 2 Lent, March 5, 2023

Gracious God of past, present, and future; keep us curious about what might be new in our future especially the potential insights which might help us to surpass ourselves in excellence.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Lent, March 4, 2024

Grant us, O God, the grace to ever be born again as we embrace our continuous future rebirths int time as surpassing ourselves in the practice of love and justice in our future states.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Lent, March 3, 2023

God, who is mighty, our world lives too often by conferring on the mighty the right to own the majority of land and resources; teach us the power of restraint and the power to transform wealth, education, and power to care for others.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Lent, March 2, 2023

God of time and history, Jesus left so that the Risen Christ could become fresh in new unfolding of love and justice within all time; give us grace to do the hard and necessary adjustments to the requirement of love and justice in our time.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Lent, March 1, 2023

God of love, who is love, and who loves the world; you sent Jesus to be for us the example of love and when his body was killed out of life, his love continued with many more showings.  Give us more showings of love today that we too might be showings of your love.  Amen.

Tuesday in 1 Lent, February 28, 2023

God of our spiritual transformation, you lead us into even new interpretations of spiritual meanings; give us grace to leave misreadings for our lives which have kept us in bad thinking, emotional infancy, and wrong behaviors.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Lent, February 27, 2023

Gracious Lover of the world, your Son Jesus became manifest as a sign of your love for us and as an Exemplar for us to love and be loved; keep us occupied in the perpetual enterprise of loving today.  Amen.

First Sunday in Lent, February 26, 2023

Second Adam Jesus Christ, you met the serpent who seeks to poison humanity with constant mistimings of words and deeds; give us grace to bring our lives in a holy timing of always doing the propitious things.  Amen.

1 Saturday in Lent, February 25, 2023

Gracious Christ, following your example let the human gifts of creativity be used for good and not for megalomaniacal exhibitionism of prideful person; give humanity the grace to resist using their abilities divorced from the service of others.  Amen.

1st Friday in Lent, February 24, 2023

Jesus Christ, most gifted of all; you were tempted to use your gifts for the wrong motives; in humility you chose the path of suffering with us so that our suffering could known as God with us in the worst probable conditions of life and death.  Amen.

1st Thursday in Lent, February 23, 2023

God, who presides over all probabilities, we are faced with inward and outward ordeals which challenge us to lose appropriate timing in when and how we should behave.  Give us the Christly timing and Christly resistance to the temptations which seek to throw off the timing to do right at the right times.  Amen.

 Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Creator God, the story of our dust spiritualized into our unified being reminds us of our future separation from our bodies as they become dust again; Give us grace to cherish and care for our lives in our bodies with love and justice and let our Lenten journeys be known to result in progress in repentance.  Amen.