God of Time, who inspires good timing in our lives, we bemoan the many mistimings in our life when in ignorance and willfulness we have done things to foster the tendency of things unworthy for our well-being and the well-being of the people in our lives. On the eve of the season of Lent, provoke us to work on our intentions to get into wise timing with the insights of love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, and faith. Amen.
Monday in The Last Sunday of the Epiphany, February 28, 2022
God of Time and the one who inspires good timing for all occasions of life, your permissive real freedom allows all sorts of mistimings to occur to the harm of many and the clashes and conflicts within human systems and eco-systems; give us grace to find the wisdom of good timing to act and say in our lives as we resist the forces of temptation which seek to get us off the schedule of love and justice for all. Amen.
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 27, 2022
O God of time's patterns of metamorphosis, representing the spiraling of time creating the differences of before and after, let us be transfiguring in an spiraling evolution toward the love and justice of all people which befits the dignity of the glory of Christ which resides in people whether they know it or not. Amen.
Saturday in 7 Epiphany, February 26, 2022
God of time, death is permitted in time, and we ask that all deaths might be good deaths appropriate to the dignity of life of each person. We ask that forces which seek to make death happen before its time be restrained, especially the aggressive forces of war. Amen.
Friday in 7 Epiphany, February 25, 2022
God, we ask for threshold angels in passage between life and death especially those who are trapped in the banality of war, on the side of having to fight for a tyrant, and on the side of defending one's home and people. We ask that life that need not die be spared to bear the normal actuarial life expectancy uninfluenced by the horrors of war which skew the statistics toward more dying. Lord have mercy and deliver us from war. Amen.
Thursday in 7 Epiphany, February 24, 2022
O God, whose image upon all is our dignity, we fear the loss of the dignity of life in aggressive wars. We ask that all non-aggressors and the vulnerable will be protected as the forces of greed seek to take more on behalf of the very few. We pray for the mercenary soldier who is trapped in having to fight to secure the wealth and power of the few. We ask for the overturning of the interests of the most greedy, and that protection and care comes to those who need it the most. Amen.
Wednesday in 7 Epiphany, February 23, 2022
God of everlastingness, help us not to isolate our current moment from the reality of what has been, what is and everything that will be. But let not the immensity of the everlasting dissolve the poignant significance of making the current moment count toward love and justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 7 Epiphany, February 22, 2022
O God, who supports the cycles of life, which include transfigurations; help us to retain the hope and optimism of the transfigured moments of apparent presence in the time when the sublime does not seem as apparent. Amen.
Monday in 7 Epiphany, February 21, 2022
O God, in your sustenance of this life, we use the memorial traces of what has happened to us before as explanatory vocabulary for the freshness of our experience now, and we hope that the freshness of the now is able to add to our experiential reservoir in a positive way so that we might be more inclined in our future experience to interpret, act, and speak in the ways that are consistent with love and justice. Amen.
Sunday, 7 Epiphany, February 20, 2022
Lord Jesus, to whom we attribute the beatitudes; help us to receive the Spirit of the beatitudes in converting people of privilege and power to put our resources to overcome the oppressive conditions of our world. Amen.
Saturday in 6 Epiphany, February 19, 2022
God, we know that our lives are not endless residence in our bodies, even as we cannot be blind to the great Continuity of Existence which we live in and which will survive when we are no longer visible in the realm of physical sight. Give us grace to leave as a legacy God-inspired acts of love and justice in the visible realms of our lives today, even as we know that the work of love and justice also works in the invisible interior realm of people but has external consequences. Amen.
Friday in 6 Epiphany, February 18, 2022
Oh God, known through Jesus and the early Christians, our tradition was born among those who proclaimed an imminent end of all, and to carry this imminent end of all as a dominion of not caring for our environment, we have not loved and cared for this world enough to leave a pristine place to our children of the future. We have mistaken the longevity of this world and we ask that our behaviors of apocalyptic fatalism find ways of corrective preservation for people of the future. Amen.
Thursday in 6 Epiphany, February 17, 2022
O God, who has shared the divine image within all that is visible and invisible; we ask for insight and wisdom to know what the divine omnipresence requires of us today for excellence in using our freedom in the very best situational way for the common good of all. Amen.
Wednesday in 6 Epiphany, February 16, 2022
O God of love, the words of Jesus promote radical love and forgiveness and we shudder in our failures in both. Keep the ideals before us so that we might ever be working to convert possible love to actual love in our words and deeds. Amen.
Tuesday in 6 Epiphany, February 15, 2022
O God, originator of marvelous diversity, we give thanks for the Black people of our country who built the original wealth of our country without reward and as slaves without the justice ideals permitted to them by persons of extremely blind hypocrisy. Grant honest justice to work an overcoming and equal good for people who have been so harshly wronged by the cruelty of the past, so that the future of people so wronged by past oppressors can be one of hope. Amen.
Monday in 6 Epiphany, February 14, 2022
God who cares for those without power, how can we adjust the values of the beatitudes to lifestyles of plenty? Teach us the value of to whom much is given, much is required. Amen.
Sunday, 6 Epiphany, February 13, 2022
God who is mysterious and unnameable because human's version are not adequate, we live by our versions of you and each other, and we need help in having our versions of you and each other be cleansed by the influence of love and justice. Amen.
Saturday in 5 Epiphany, February 12, 2022
O God, who has given us interior lives to process all that we experience in our exterior lives; give us emotional intelligence, wisdom in sentiment especially to work the kind of empathy which can bring healing in our life settings. Amen.
Friday in 5 Epiphany, February 11, 2022
God of abundance, we seek to be rich in the kind of treasures which are lasting and which contribute to a better future of our world. Let the gems of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness, and justice be the legacy of our wealth today. Amen.
Thursday in 5 Epiphany, February 10, 2022
Gracious God, we seek you as the complementing immanence of all that we face in life and we seek your inside work on the hearts of people even away from our knowledge of what you are doing as a compensating presence in the middle of conditions which seem hopeless. We trust that apparent woes are being experienced as alchemical blessings through the magic of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Wednesday in 5 Epiphany, February 9, 2022
O God of justice, we have law as a process of trying to approximate in practice an elusive justice since time is so open and continuous, justice is not something to reach but something to always be reaching for. Help us not to grow weary in the ceaseless reaching to approximate justice with laws which can teach us recommended behaviors worthy of the quest for justice. Amen.
Tuesday in 5 Epiphany, February 8, 2022
God of Creative Freedom, I fear many of the negative consequences of true freedom that has been shared with all things, even my own misdeeds, and the freedom of people to be hurtful and hateful, as well as the seeming mistiming between systems of nature and the presence of people which results in harm. Give the created entities the inner wisdom to effect harmonious outcomes so that the harms might be limited to but the results of aging in time, and beyond our aging in time, let us hope that nothing good will ever be lost but will resurrect in transforming future goodness with the personal continuity to recognize that goodness. Amen.
Monday in 5 Epiphany, February 7, 2022
God of fully disperse immanence; the traces of you are everywhere and leading us to the right relationship with you, everything, and everyone Please verify for us in our life situations that love and justice is what is definitive of being in a right relationship with you, everything, every happening, and everyone. Amen.
Sunday, 5 Epiphany, February 6, 2022
God, you are presented as holy and Other from us even while we assume the experience of your Otherness is a valid human experience; Isaiah heard the visible in the invisible sing "holy, holy, holy," in Hebrew, and we too seek the realm of the sublime to inform the directions of our lives invoking the energy of holy becoming the work of love and justice in our world today. Amen.
Saturday in 4, February 5, 2022
God, beyond our capacity to full know, but who has come to us in language in our dominate identity as language users, give us grace to do an inventory of the values of our lives and be honest about how our words and deeds are connecting with what we are proclaiming to be the chief values of our faith. And give us humility to accept that we are not yet where we want to be, and at the same time not give up the high standard to which we must be called if we are going to be better today than we were yesterday. Amen.
Friday in 4 Epiphany, February 4, 2022
God who is eternal Word, in Word there is a call happening toward us at all times in a wide variety of ways. We seek to have the discerning filters into our life to screen and isolate the particular callings to us as they arise, develop, change and expand our capacities to experience the further calling of the Eternal Word. Amen.
Thursday in 4 Epiphany, February 3, 2022
God who is also the Call that is happening at all times; we cannot avoid you as a Plenitude and the Personhood of Plenitude because having language means that everything has the relationship differential relationships of personhood. Give us grace to respond to your Call as sheer Presence first, but then also specifically articulated in events of response to this Call in deeds of love and justice. Amen.
Wednesday in 4 Epiphany, February 2, 2022
O Jesus, in your Presentation, you were a ritualized person within a community and a family that valued you because you were God's gift presented to us so that we might know how we can be presented as living sacrifices to God in this life and in our afterlives. Amen.
Tuesday in 4 Epiphany, February 1, 2022
Holy God, we are given the word holy to proclaim the difference of your divinity known in the sheer quantity of what you include in your everlastingness, but also in the unique quality of continuously creating in freedom and allowing all that is created to partake of freedom in the significant ways which make choosing love and justice the highlight of human existence. Grant us the grace to honor the divine gift of freedom through the practice of love and justice as the best way for creative harmonies to occur. Amen.
Monday in 4 Epiphany, January 31, 2022
O God who is everywhere, forgive us for our willingness to be spiritual but not religious, when it means that we avoid the particular call of God which comes to us to be God's messenger in particular times and places to particular people who might be just as imperfect as we are. Amen.
Sunday, 4 Epiphany, January 30, 2022
O God of Love, your love is unique in capacity to be able to endure all things and so impart moral significance by the appearance of weakness in singular free events, even while being the entirety of the field of probable free outcomes in the world. The greatness of your complete love swallows up the unfolding events freely happening in time and inspires us to never be weary in the efforts to freely overcome evil with goodness which partakes best with particular divine love. Amen.
Saturday in 3 Epiphany, January 29, 2022
O God of hope, if love is hoping all things, forgive us for hoping only for things that pertain to the outcomes of love and justice, even while we know that the realm of the possible indicates some unpleasant probabilities because of freedom. But in hope, we seek for the overcoming surpassing of evil with Goodness. Amen.
Friday in 3 Epiphany, January 28, 2022
God of everlastingness, since you will be the last and latest One, we believe that Providence rest in your composition, and because we also call you Love, we ask that love become providential in actual ways in our lives now. Amen.
Thursday in 3 Epiphany, Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022
O Great Preserving God, we remember the six million people who were not regarded as having worth to live the expected probable conditions of life because they were Jews. We commit their lives to your preservation in an everlasting rest, and we shudder at the human depravity which perpetuated such a diminution of life itself. In remembering, let us not forget, and in not forgetting let us affirm and value the life of every person. Amen.
Wednesday in 3 Epiphany, January 26, 2022
O Holy One, about which none greater can be conceived and the realm of pure Possibilisms, let us bring forth in time from the infinite realm of the possible, things which are actual to love and justice today in the lives of the people we meet. Amen.
Tuesday in 3 Epiphany, Conversion of St. Paul, January 25, 2022
God who must be universally promulgated if the reality God is to have full meaning, we give thanks for the conversion of Saul, who underwent changes to receive a new name as Paul, and who understood that the Risen Christ was the means of promulgating the God who was available to all and become self-consistent for those who confessed the Divine One. Amen.
Monday in 3 Epiphany, January 24, 2022
O God of the Love which bears all thing, believes all things, hopes all things; such is unattainable for us because we want to limit what is actual to what is most convenient for us and for how we view what is best for our world. The Awesome Love of the purely possible and what has become actual in human experience is beyond our bearable limits, and in faith we defer to greater Love to be our Guide. Amen.
Sunday, 3 Epiphany, January 23, 2022
O God, who gives the good news of Love to us who are poor. Help us to realize our poverty and be in the humble state of mind to accept the good news of love which we need to motivate us to spread this good news to people in the diverse states of poverty. Amen.
Saturday in 2 Epiphany, January 22, 2022
O God who anoints with the Spirit to bring good news to the poor; forgive us for using the words of the Bible for mainly bringing good news to those who are not poor, while failing in our bringing good news to the poor because we too often are on the side of the free market which favors the rich. Help us to get back to the basic task of the Gospel, bringing good news to the poor. Amen.
Friday in 2 Epiphany, January 21, 2021
Holy God, whom we need even when we don't think so; forgive us for treating other people as though we don't need them and expose our own rebellion against relationship with you and others. Give of willing hearts to acknowledge that we are always already related with All. Amen.
Thursday in 2 Epiphany, January 20, 2022
God, who cares for the lowly, your Son Jesus Christ said that the Gospel was good news to the poor; we confess that we have not had this as our Gospel value in the way that we have constituted our societies. We ask for the grace of becoming converted to a creativity which results in the spread of good news to all who suffer poverty. Amen.
Wednesday in 2 Epiphany, January 19, 2022
O Spirit of God, you have inspired and created such diversity and poured the blessing of freedom into us a willful human beings which even allows us to exalt diversity over unity and get ourselves in petty disputes at best, and wars at worst. We ask for the power to use our wills to freely return to the power of you as a Spirit of unity and thus have grace to become those who orchestrate the beauties of harmonies. Amen.
Tuesday, in 2 Epiphany, Confession of St. Peter, January 18, 2022
Gracious God, forgive us when we confess Jesus to be Christ, Son of the Living God, Savior, Prince of Peace, and much more, but then fail woefully to understand and live up to these high confessions. Give us the faith of Peter to persevere in coming to know and live in honest ways what we confess about Jesus the Christ. Amen.
Monday in 2 Epiphany, January 17, 2022
O Eternal Word of God, when you were made flesh in Jesus, you said that the good news was to be for the poor. Help us to have the same priority as Jesus did in bringing good news to the poor. Amen.
Sunday, 2 Epiphany, January 16, 2022
Transforming God, you have given us the spiritual alchemist, Jesus Christ who united all things so that the ordinary can bear the extraordinary and allow us the intoxication of the divine presence in the outer appearance of drinking ordinary water. Let us know the intoxicating divine presence in the water of our ordinary lives. Amen.
Saturday in 1 Epiphany, January 15, 2022
O God our Maker and Creator, you have made us people who can create, as people who have gifts, and you have attached to our creativity the awesome burden of freedom. Help us to wed freedom and creativity with strategies and actions for the common good as is expressed in loving our neighbor as ourself. Amen.
Friday in 1 Epiphany, January 14, 2021
O God, we ask for signs in our lives of you, even as we use the derivative features of God as Eternal Word to do so; help us to know that the Sign of your presence is always already within the worded existence. Amen.
Thursday in 1 Epiphany, January 13, 2022
Let us O God, know that the ordinary water of life experience can also be tasted as the vintage wine of the inner fountain of the Holy Spirit, accompanying everything that we do. Amen.
Wednesday in 1 Epiphany, January 12, 2022
Holy Spirit, giver of gifts, let us not take and develop our gifts from you unless we also receive from you the greater gift of love which we need to regulate all gifts for the common good of the community. O Spirit, let us seek the greater gift of Love. Amen.
Tuesday in 1 Epiphany, January 11, 2022
Immanent God, your presence is in the profound and the trivial, when we experience great gain and the uncanny, but also when we experience the losses due to the free conditions of constant change. Help us to have faith in your presence as the great equalizer in all things that are going through constant change. Amen.
Monday in 1 Epiphany, January 10, 2022
O God of spiritual alchemy, to know the Risen Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit is to know intoxication with joy while drinking but the seeming ordinary water of life. Give us this intoxication so that a domino effect of delight can come to the people we serve. Amen.
Sunday, 1 Epiphany, the Baptism of Our Lord, January 9, 2022
Gracious Jesus, your baptism was one more occasion of the divine Word being made flesh and expressed as God's solidarity with us as people, in all our messiness and imperfection. You went into the waters of the Jordan at your baptism and raised the boats of human moral and spiritual expectation because we are now asked to be more Christ-like each day of our lives. Amen.
Saturday after the Epiphany, January 8, 2022
Gracious God, we were made to be initiated into the image of God upon our lives but we have lost and often lose our direction; we thank you that Jesus represents God as immersed or baptized into full human life even to a human death, so that we might ride the elevator of the resurrection of Christ to restoration in the image of God on our lives. Amen.
Friday after the Epiphany, January 7, 2022
Omni-present God, your immanence is found everywhere and so epiphanies can occur when we allow our gates of perception to be open to the always-already Christ nature which can arise within us. Let the manifestations happen today for many and let it result in love and justice. Amen.
The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2022
God whose very concept would imply univerality, and whom we believe to mark the existence of language users with signs of sublime presence; we thank you for the manifestation of the Christ-nature, as in former days known as the image of the divine upon each life, and in the days of Jesus Christ and his post-resurrection reality, as the spiritual baptism manifest arising of the Risen Christ to be the epiphany in the lives of those who desire it. Amen.
