Prayers for Lent, 2026

Holy Saturday, April 4, 2026

Your entombment, O Christ, bespeaks the silent grief of profound loss, so profound for your friends that their perceptual veil would break and allow them to see you alive again in such substantial ways as to give birth to a great historical movement; reform this movement O Christ to remain true to your love and justice.  Amen.

Good Friday, April 3, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, we understand you as God's supreme representative instantiating the divine identity to the terminus of the human experience, even death itself; give us grace not to regard this as mere tolerance of human cruelty but a goad for us to continually work to end human cruelty in our world.  Amen.

Maundy Thursday, April 2, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, you commanded us to love one another in exemplary foot washing; give us grace to move our love from what we are supposed to be to what we are in the practice of our lives.  Amen.

Wednesday in Holy Week, April 1, 2026

Christ, we embrace your Passion as the energy to tame the continual impulse to regard ourselves as unable to make room for others in the practice of the love and justice required for the dignity of all in our community; give us the self control of your Passion so that we might better serve the common good.  Amen.

Tuesday in Holy Week, March 31, 2026

God, we are full of lamentations for our failure to care for each other and our earth; we have sinned against available creativity to equably distribute enough for everyone in the world to live well, and we resort often to war against each other rather than convert material wealth to deal with the natural harms which come to all.  Have mercy upon us, O Christ.  Amen.

Monday in Holy Week, March 30, 2026

God of the recurring pavement of Time, we seemingly retrace the grooves of memory again with the hope of coming to know the emptying reality of the death of Jesus as the divine identity with the human experience of loss, forsakenness, and seeming failure; give us the courage to integrate what has been horrifying into hearts of empathy arising from our survival to better serve those who called to the intermittent but certain experiences of loss, sadness, and failure.  Amen.

Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, March 29, 2026

Christ, our King, in your Passion you exposed the absolute corruption of absolute earthly power when people presume to funnel ultimate power into their very limited expressions of selfish interest; keep us in touch with you our king of hearts where we receive your commission to use the power of life to generate the results of love and justice to distribute the great power of the divine to all the members of your great family.  Amen.

Saturday in 5 Lent, March 28, 2026

On the eve of Holy Week, O God we are reminded about the profound inwardness of the Empire of God and that we are not called to imperial power but to service that often must be the kingdom of the divine incognito yet winsome when and where it needs to be for people who need love and justice.  Let us not seek power except for the service of the common good.  Amen.

Friday in 5 Lent, March 27, 2026

God, whose general incarnation is within the divine image upon us all in alway already assuming our flesh; keep us very earthly even while embracing the gravity defying hope lifting us to the constant vision of our better selves in the performance of love and justice.  Amen.

Thursday in 5 Lent, March 26, 2026

Beyond the horror of crucifixion, O Lord Christ, we seek to find the spiritual power of dying to what is unworthy in the hatred and injustice which infects the world and often our hearts.  Give us the continual power of ending unworthy habits of hatred and injustice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 5 Lent, March 25, 2026. The Annunciation

Today, O God, let our souls like Mary's be saying, "Here we are, let it be according to your word," even the birth of mysterious Christ image within us as the realization of our membership within the all-inclusive family of God.  Amen.

Tuesday in 5 Lent, March 24, 2026

Lord Jesus Christ, your death became the power of the grace of interdicting what we no longer want to do in order to embrace in resurrecting ways the new things that we desire in the cause of love and justice.  Let us only glorify your death for the purposes of ending what is unworthy in our world.  Amen.

Monday in 5 Lent, March 23, 2026

Eternal Word, though we cannot relive the past, the great words of the past can inspire and find our present lives as fertile soil for the promulgation of what is just and loving in new situations.  Give us freedom from idolizing statues as museum pieces and give us boldness to update justice and love afresh.  Amen.

Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2026

Christ, you are resurrection and life, even before we die as you provide the Word narrative for the future continuity of the continuing afterlife of Life as the memorial traces of us having absolutely existed.  Give us courage to build future traces of love and justice to contribute excellence to the growing becoming of all things.  Amen.

Saturday in 4 Lent, March 21, 2026

God of cycles, arriving at a time we call spring, we ponder the cycles of return and repetitions in our lives and we ask that we might do the tasks of loving and justice better in the new occasions which give us cause to be loving and just.  Amen.

Friday in 4 Lent, March 20, 2026

God of preservation, time is the continual loss of what was even though traces are retained in uneven ways in our current lives; give us access to the needed traces of the past to provide insight for loving and just action in our lives now.  Amen.

Thursday in 4 Lent, March 19, 2026

God of perpetual new life, we are always in anticipation for what we will yet become; give us hope that our future states will be surpassing ones given the entropy which seem to be diminishments of our quality of living.  Give us trust in your reconstituting preservation of our best selves.  Amen.

Wednesday in 4 Lent, March 18, 2026

God of resurrections, of new life arising out of the life that has been; give us new life events as well as accept the hope default of human deep inner life as the sign of resurrection as a potential lifestyle.  Amen.

Tuesday in 4 Lent, March 17, 2026

God, we find ourselves bathed in inwardness registering things of sublime and things of terror, the agonistic and the ecstatic; give us grace to live with our inwardness as receptivity places of what arises from within and from without, and help us tame the inward toward acts of love and justice in our outer world.  Amen.

Monday in 4 Lent, March 16, 2026

God, who does not taunt us with Hope; give us willingness to accept hope as the always already evidence of our continual participation in the MORE THAN reality of the life we call divine as we confess hope is being encompassed by your perpetual greatness which continually expands the horizon.  Let our contribution to this expansion be acts of love and justice.  Amen.

Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 15, 2026

Creator God, you declared Light as your first creative act; we salute the very conditions for seeing with our physical eyes, even as we are grateful for the Christ nature being the condition for our spiritual sight and for the continual recovery from our inherited blindness.  Keep us on the path of sight recovery.  Amen.

Saturday in 3 Lent, March 14, 2026

God, our seeing is continuously coded by our interpretive filters of how to see meanings in life; give us continuous repentance to cleanse the doors of our perception so that we hone into the requirements of love and justice for the future well-being of the people of our world.  Amen.

Friday in 3 Lent, March 13, 2026

Christ the Light and healer of the blind; we know that our sight is based upon the interior lens and filters through which we see what is happening to us and in our world; give us grace not only to cleans our interior lens from the fog of bias and smallness of heart so that we can have our vision expanded by the largesse of love's requirements.  Amen.

Thursday in 3 Lent, March 12, 2026

Christ who is Light and Vision; keep us in perpetual recovery from our various ignorances of blindness to new obviousnesses; let us have continual new "Aha" moments when we see you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly in the the practice of love and justice.  Amen.

Wednesday in 3 Lent, March 11, 2026

God of creativity, who has shared creativity with us; forgive us for wrongly applying our creative gifts for merely short term selfish profit rather than for the common good for people in our world.  Amen.

Tuesday in 3 Lent, March 10, 2026

God, you are the Brilliant Light of Insight, which does not turn on because you are never off but only veiled by our own limited experience; give us the continuing ability to adjust our seeing capacity to take in more of your Light, even as we know that our capacity to see clearly is coupled with our efforts to love mercy, do justice, and walk humbly before you.  Amen.

Monday in 3 Lent, March 9, 2026

God who presides over the continual renewal of our interpreting minds; give us continuous recovery from yesterday's ignorance which we called sight and now has become blindness because of further insights; give us the humility of being tentative about everything except the continual challenge of love and justice which does not allow us to say that yesterday was enough because of the new requirements for today.  Amen.

Third Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2026

God, you are the Soil of Existence in which we grow and are connected with everything else even while we are aware of but a small fraction of the massive environment; give us wisdom to activate rightly the part of our growing which is our volition toward the fruitful outcomes of love and justice as our enduring contribution to our immediate environments.  Amen.

Saturday in 2 Lent, March 7, 2026

God, whose unique Son Jesus, said was Spirit and that we must worship you in Spirit and truth; you are the invisible sub-atomic which breath and wind stand as metaphors for in appreciating the deep Mystery of life itself; give us the humility not to over privilege all the religious layers which we have come in our traditions to build up and often feign to replace you as deep Mystery.  Amen.

Friday in 2 Lent, March 6, 2026

God you have given us the mission of prayer as a discourse to vote on the release of linguistic product with its heart energy to relate our very limited temporal situation with you as the Great Situation in whom we live and move and have our being.  Give us persistence to couple our verbal and thought prayers with body language oblation prayers to be the active answer to the conditions for which we ask.  Amen.

Thursday in 2 Lent, March 5, 2026

God of our prayers; we use prayer as a discourse in language to confess there is a great MORE than we can know or say that humbles us to but very limited contextual knowing of our world.  Give us grace to accept the humble adequacy of what we can know as we attempt to live according to our confession about the supreme nature of God of All, namely Love, itself.  Amen.

Wednesday in 2 Lent, March 4, 2026

Christ, you have been poetically called, All and in All; and we cannot properly represent you with our very limited life experience and we ask for grace to accept the largesse of your ALLNESS as the never ending call for the expansion of love's requirements for us.  Amen.

Tuesday in 2 Lent, March 3, 2026

God, You are known in Christ to be all and in all, and have omni-relevance; keep us from locking you into our small provincial understanding particular when they prevent us from offering the love and justice which surely resides as the inner potential of every human being.  Amen.

Monday in 2 Lent, March 2, 2026

Holy Spirit, you are likened to an inner bubbling spring; grant us continual refreshment from you as what we name as the deepest invisible source of our lives, even sub-atomically renewing life, even that which appears to be death, because your eternally ever invisible Beneathness to everything.  Amen.

Second Sunday in Lent, March 1, 2026

God of salvation health for our world; your love is inherent within life itself in the continuous promise for future life; help us to use the human volitional capacity to promote healing in our world as we move toward death; but let us exercise our ability with present action to be a future hidden cause of a better life.  Amen.

Saturday in 1 Lent, February 28, 2026

Give us grace, O God, to fast from the will to power which does not include the protection of the vulnerable and give us wisdom and encourage to embrace the gifts of wealth, education, and personal ability for promotion of the common good of all, and especially those who lack the strength and advocacy to manifest their personal dignity within their communities.  Amen.

Friday in 1 Lent, February 27, 2026

God, you invite us to the new birth which enables us to know you to love the world, and to love us; give us willingness to respond to your love by being those who find continuous strategies of love to accomplish the hard love of justice which allows the experience of dignity for everyone.  Amen.

Thursday in 1 Lent, February 26, 2026

God of continuous new births; keep us open to new transforming events of mind in attaining better likeness to approximations to the practice of love and justice in our lives so that your love for this world might be instantiated in our actual conduct.  Amen.

Wednesday in 1 Lent, February 25, 2026

Eternal Word of God, give us literary minds to perceive the meanings of love and justice and give us literal courage to bring the high theories of love and justice to the very literal and material circumstances of the people in this world who need the justice of enough resources for quality of life.  amen.

Tuesday in 1 Lent, February 24, 2026

God, who loves the world, we are given the very notion of love as definitive of what is best about describing you and the ideal virtue for living; give us the grit to leave the theory of love as a high ideal to get our hands dirty in making love evident in the reality of justice for as many people as we can, all the time.  Amen.

Monday in 1 Lent, February 23, 2026

God, who is love, who loves the world and asks us to love you, our neighbors as ourselves; help us to love the world beyond human community with caring stewardship love so that we may leave it sustaining for those who come after us even as we use it now for distributive provision for the common good.  Amen.

First Sunday in Lent, February 22, 2026

God, who is Freedom who contains within the Divine Sphere the host of free agents; we seek the wisdom of compatible timing among the many free agents the harmony of peace and the justice of each getting appropriate what is due in terms of dignity and love.  Give us Lenten grace to resist the temptations of the mistimings of doing things at the wrong time in the wrong way.  Amen.

Saturday after Ash Wednesday, February 21 2026

God of good timing and synchrony, give us the wisdom of doing all things in their right time and place that we might enjoy the gifts of life rather than feel guilty about our misuse and cause the grief of ill distributed resources of the world where too many people live without enough.  Amen.

Friday after Ash Wednesday, February 20, 2026

God of hope, let us have Lenten hope to overcome the despair stemming from reasonable disillusionment, and let us not use comedy and scorn as a way to escape misanthropic passivity in the quest for a steady and incremental journey toward a better excellence in the practice of love and justice in our world.  Amen.

Thursday after Ash Wednesday, February 19, 2026

God who gave us life as a discipline in betterment, give us grace to perfect our timing in doing what is right the causes of love and justice, and give us self control to employing fasting as a regulatory strategy in personal and social stewardship of the gifts of the earth.  Amen.

Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026

God, whose memory can eventually reconstitute us in our more perfect selves, we contemplate today the future ashen state of our bodies as but a mortal phase before their disappearance into the invisible, the abode of hope and love; let us cherish our mortal phases by valuing life and adding value to life so that we might attain at last to become the invisible virtues for which we have aspired.  Amen.

Prayers for 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.