Word/Image: Tender
Father, Song of Every Age, Jesus, Living Water, and Holy Spirit of Comfort and Peace, restore us in You. Take pity on us. We are frightened lambs lost and thrashing about in meadows that bewilder us. May our helpless bleats fall upon the Ears of Your Sacred Heart. Turn our inconsolable quivers into deep calm breaths intonated with intimate vulnerable prayers. We praise and thank you for receiving each of us with Divine Tenderness. We lower our heads to drink the Living Water You have cupped in Your Hands to refresh our drooping spirits. Father, show us the way through the Narrow Gate into the Heart of Your Son. Jesus, You are Everything to us, please grant us every Grace we need to burn with unquenchable desire to seek You above all things. And Beautiful Spirit, transport our fragile human vessels into new pastures of wonder and awe. “Lord we lift you up, Hallelujah You are Worthy, Hallelujah we praise Your Name,” now and forever.”* AMEN
* I was listening to this song when I wrote this prayer – Hallelujah You’re Worthy The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Word/Image: Tattered
Father our Creator and Corrector, Jesus of Mercy and Justice, and Spirit of Breath and Fire grab hold of the tattered fabric of our lives. We give Glory to the Union of Your Trinitarian Majesty. All things in You are Ordered for the Good of All. Help us contemplate the Power and Flow of Your perfect, Passionate, Fierce Love that is the Glue that holds all things together. Help us seek You at the center of all our relationships. We humble ask You to move us past treating each other as objects of our limited visions, needs, and desires. Sew us back together. Bring healing to the rips we create in our relationship with You, with each other, and all of Your beautiful Creation. Father, we hunger for Your Endless Light. Jesus, we want to rest in Your Healing Peace that consummates Your Mystical Body into an agency of Glory for Your Father. And Beautiful Spirit, we yearn to be swept into Your Sublime Winds of Sacred Imagination leading to New Life. Oh, Holy Trinity, “may we come to rest where angels sing.”* AMEN
* Lyrics from song by Dan Schutte, Beyond the Moon and Stars,
Word/Image: Forbearance
25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
Lamentations 3: 25-27
Father of Justice, Jesus Perfectly Enduring our sorrow, and Holy Spirit, fuel of Love’s Victory, give us strength. We feel abandoned on barren landscapes that have become scarce with Your Flowing Goodness. Come and “reign” down on the parched crusts of our hearts and souls. We have shown, “contempt for the riches of [Your] kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that [Your] kindness is intended to lead [us] to repentance.”* Increase the intensity of our Hope in the promise of Your Salvation. Stir all of our brothers and sisters to become relentless seekers of You. Show us how to accompany each other on our run through trials and tribulations. Father we wait for Your Story to unfold. Jesus we are confident You will come with swift vindication to establish Your Will and a new era of Peace in our land. Beautiful Spirit grant us Your fruits of, “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” ** We lift up our souls to You seeking Your Mercy and forgiveness. AMEN
* Romans 2:4
** Galatians 5: 22-23
Word/Image: Bury
“Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:60
Father of Ceaseless Life, Jesus the Resurrection and the Life, and Holy Spirit the Binding Love of Life cast away our attachments. Leads us into Your Kingdom. Draw us back to the Tree of Life and graft our withering limbs to its shoots of Wisdom. Help us take stock of all of our dead branches; all of the things, people, and situations that pull the gaze of our hearts and spirits away from You. We despise our culture of death. We praise and thank You for giving us Everlasting Life. Lord, we trust that death and things not of You will decay and bury themselves. We choose You and we choose Life. How can we be of better service to You in proclaiming the Kingdom of God? Father, begin to reveal more of Your hidden Plans and Glory. Jesus, You are our God and King and we have no path to Life except through You. And Beautiful Spirit, embolden us with robust voices and actions that give testimony to the Awesome Love of God. We make our prayer in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. AMEN
Word/Image: Train Tracks
Father of Movement and Change, Jesus One with the Will of the Father, and Beautiful Spirit of Wisdom and Love in Motion, grant us a ticket on the train to Salvation. Help us not take for granted or waste a single moment of this precious, short life on Earth. May we become more aware of how to work in the details of our lives to speak to You, to Know You, and to discern how You want us to express and celebrate Your Presence in the world. Align the genesis of our actions to Your Divine Law of Love. Set us straight on the narrow tracks that accelerate the growth of our hearts and spirit into Your Everlasting Light. Father, we thank you for lavishing us with Your Graces and Mercies to fuel our journey. Jesus, we adore You and praise You for being our Conductor with a map of our journey. And Holy Spirit we submit to Your Fire of Love that gives energy and purpose to all of our sacred efforts. “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.” AMEN
Word/Image: Fairness
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.
Acts 17:31
Father of Justice, Jesus our Truth and Judge, and Holy Spirit Arbitrator of Love prepare us to come before You. Oh, Lord please do not look upon as we are but, as You Know us and as You have made us. Find favor in Your design, and grant us contrite hearts and willing spirits full of humility. How can we understand what is fair when we stumble in accepting Your Love? Open our minds to seek the Wisdom of Your Ways. Lord, we struggle to seek forgiveness because we struggle to let go of trespasses committed against us. Give us the strength to relinquish our prides and forgive ourselves as the first step in seeking Your Mercy and Love. Oh Father, “righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; Love and Faithfulness go before you.”* Jesus, “may the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.”** Beautiful Spirit consume us with the Holy Purifying Fire of Heaven. AMEN
* Psalm 89:14
** Psalm 67:4
Word/Image: Frivolity
Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.
Psalm 126:2
Father of Joy and Giver of Laughter, Jesus our constant Companion, and Beautiful Spirit full of Surprises and Delight, refresh our weary hearts and spirits. Tickle us with a deeper awareness of the infinite shades and hues of Your Love at work in all of Creation. We long for fellowship with You, and with all of our brothers and sisters. Grant us special opportunities to relish the sweetness of Your Company. Thank You for always being available and ready to sit with us. Teach us how to bring You everything and please increase in us a sense of wonder. With Your Grace let us discover new ways to share more with You than just our needs, and petitions. Let us laugh, sing, and speak with You about the Goodness of Life. Oh, Father there is no end to Your Majesty in all of It’s Shapes and Forms. Jesus laugh with us and increase the appetite of our hearts to be nourished by the Delicious Food of Your Presence. Holy Spirit lift us up with Your Light and Giggles. Our Joy is Complete in Jesus our Lord and Savior, our God and King, who reigns in us and with us now and forever. AMEN
Word/Image: Bamboozle
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
Colossians 2:8
Father Foundry of Truth, Jesus our Way, Truth and Life, and Holy Spirit Promoter of Truth and Love, protects us from the assaults of deception. We often feel like puppets whose strings are being perpetually pulled in self-destructive directions that take us away from You. We face a barrage of tantalizing offers; one better than the next. Lord, sometimes it feels like everyone around us has found what they need to be on top of the world while we stumble along perplexed by the challenges of living our faith. Through our Guardian Angels, and every possible agency of Grace, amplify the Voice of Your Wisdom to help us discern the choices we need to make. We beg for the courage and resilience to keep our eyes on the Cross. Father, help us to grow into Your adopted sons and daughters with hearts full of hope and trust in You. Jesus, thank you for teaching us, “where [our] treasure is [our] heart will also be.”* Beautiful Spirit sustains with heart felt visions of our inheritance. “Save [us], Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.”** AMEN
* Matthew 6:21
** Psalm 120:2
Word/Image: Dead Serious
Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:11
Father Holy and Immortal, Jesus Son of God, and Spirit of Divine Providence, bring renewed order to our Earthly affairs. Lord, we want to be at one with Your Will at all times and in all ways. We have turned the temples of our spirits into soulless places. Unite us in prayer to You, and through You with each other, to ignite our darkened world with the Light of Your Peace, Joy and Love. Drive out the thieves that seek to rob us of our desire to seek You and serve You with all of our heart, mind, and strength. Father despite our sins against You and one another we vow to honor the House of Your Creation. Jesus fill us with a zeal for Your Father’s Creation. And Beautiful Spirit, transform the violence of our hearts and spirits into prayers and actions that give Glory to God. May we become like the children of the temple praising You, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”* AMEN
* Matthew 21:14
Word/Image: Wisdom
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 2:2-3
Father Source of All Knowledge, Jesus, Keeper of the Treasures of Wisdom, and Beautiful Spirit, Creator of Sacred experiences, immerse us in opportunities to grow. Expose our foolishness. Help us to recognize how we stumble when we remove You from the center of our lives. Lavish us with Your Grace that in our vulnerability we might discover the strength of Your Hand. Please work in the details and challenges of our lives to clear an unexpected path that leads to an encounter with Your Love. We know, “the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”* Father thank You for giving us Your only Son to guide us. Jesus, please take possession of our minds, hearts, spirits, and bodies that we might become Your Living Bread of Wisdom, Mercy, Peace, and Love for each other. And Holy Spirit, sanctify us with Your Breath of Life and Fire of Glory. “Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil.” AMEN
* James 3:17
Word/Image: Cry
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Revelation 21: 3-4
Father of Divine Love, Jesus Lamb of God, and Holy Spirit of Comfort, grant us Peace. Our world is shaking with anguish. We feel tears from Heaven falling upon us. What is this mystery of Your Heart that soars above ours and yet is like ours in experiencing the dregs of sadness? Nothing can touch Your Joy but why must we continually pierce Your Goodness and Love with our careless, selfish ways? May we grieve with You and may our tears, united with Yours, bring a flood of renewing strength to the face of the Earth. Grant Your adopted Sons and Daughters a change in heart. Help us to soar in Your Sacred Imagination to our time and place with You in Your Holy City. Make this our passionate desire, and fix the eyes of our hearts and spirits upon it. Father, thank You for never forsaking us. Jesus turn our tears into Joy. And Beautiful Spirit, unleash a Song of Praise and Dance in our bodies. “As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end.” AMEN
Word/Image: “The one who is righteous by faith will live.” (Romans 1:17)
Father of Righteousness, Jesus Source of our Faith, and Holy Spirit, Instigator of our sacred connections, set us on a path of holiness. Transform our desires for goodness and virtue into lives of humility. Lord, we know we cannot earn righteousness. You have taught us that, “no one is good – except God alone.”* Help us to gaze with the eyes of our hearts and spirits into the unseen reality of our Life in You. Grant us the disposition of a child. Fill us with hearts full of wonder as we imagine, “what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no mind has conceived”** for those that love You. Father, please give us the gift of Faith. Jesus, show us how to turn our faith into ceaseless prayers and good actions. And Beautiful Spirit, multiple the fruits of our faith into righteousness that gives glory to Your Eternal Love forever. We ask this in the name of Jesus our Lord, and Savior. AMEN
* Mark 10:18
** 1 Corinthians 2:9
Word/Image: Pitiless
I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
Psalm 13:11
Father our Just Judge, Jesus our Cup of Mercy, and Holy Spirit our Intercessor, empty the dregs of our pride. What must we do to avert Your Wrath? We have fallen deep into the pits of our self-centered, self-aggrandizing, self-made horrors. It is not You who will punish us but ourselves. We are experiencing right now the crushing gravity of rejecting Your Love. Help us return to the ways of Fraternity and selfless care for one another. Show us how to look for, and how to see the Face of Your Son Jesus Christ in every person and situation. We have become consumed with our desire to be arbitrators and makers of our own order and goodness. Deliver us from our pitiless ways. How can we expect Your Mercy when we are eager to lash out against our brothers and sisters? Free us from the snares of self-love that have trapped us in their vicious grips of arrogance. Father, grant us a hunger to seek Your Will. Jesus, gather our broken perishing bodies in Your arms and refresh our souls. And beautiful Spirit lavish us in the Fire of Your Love. We come to you with our desperate petition made in the Name of Jesus Christ and through the Power of His Precious Blood. Have Mercy on us! AMEN
Word/Image: Delight
You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 16:11
Father, Fount of All Life, Jesus King of Love, and Beautiful Spirit our Song of Joy, make room for us in Your Celestial Home. Strengthen the eyes of our hearts to let in more and more of Your Endless Light. Prepare the coffers of our spirits to be filled with Your Treasures of Joy. We want to delight forever in the Majesty of Your Love. Grant us today breadcrumbs from Heaven rich in Your consolations that offer us a glimpse of Your Beauty and Order Working All in All. Plant us like ever fruiting trees along the River of Living Waters that flow from Your Temple. Oh Holy and Great Father, we praise you and thank you for granting us an inheritance in Your Kingdom. Jesus we consecrate ourselves to You – without You we have nothing. And Holy Spirit, take possession of our hearts and spirits with the Body, Mind, and Heart of Jesus. “To do your will, O God, is [our] delight, and your law is within [our] heart[s].”* AMEN
* Psalm 40:8
Word/Image: Lightening
See how he scatters his lightning about him,
bathing the depths of the sea.
This is the way he governs the nations
and provides food in abundance.
He fills his hands with lightning
and commands it to strike its mark.
Job 36: 30-32
Father of Mighty Justice, Jesus our Redeemer and King, and Holy Spirit, Consuming Burst of Love, thunder with Your Righteous Storm. Insert Yourself in our affairs. We have forgotten how to count our blessings. Command the natural and spiritual elements to hearken to Your Will. Shake us with Your claps of thunderous Mercy and Your flashes of Wrathing Love. If there is anything malignant in our soul strike it with full force. Breathe into us a life of prayer, devotion, and service to the Gospel. By the Power of Your Grace eradicate our sinful ways. Father stop us from transmitting the ills of our hearts to others. Jesus, embrace us with Your Tenderness and nurture in us humble and contrite hearts. And Holy Spirit extinguish our toxic fires of self-worship and light in us Holy Fires of Love. “Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.” * AMEN
Psalm 85:7
Word/Image: Tavern
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:18
Father of Compassion, Jesus of Mercy, Holy Spirit of Love fill us with a longing for You. Watch over us as we make our way on dusty paths. Too often Lord we have little to no idea of where we are going and how we will find You. Place taverns along the roads less traveled where we can find rest and refreshment. Grant us quiet moments with You punctuated with sparks of Your Consolations and Wisdom. Take the seat next to us. We want to tell You our story. Please be patient with us as we recount every detail. Plant one of Your heart opening questions deep into our spirits. Lord, You always opens us up to new possibilities and bless us with peace even in the throes of our confusions and passions. Turn the lonely tavern into a fertile byway so others may also be brought into the Grace of Your Loving Presence. Father, be our refuge. Jesus, let us peer into the infinite depths of Your Eyes and experience Your Endless Mercy. And Beautiful Spirit, inflame us with Your unquenchable Love. “We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.* AMEN
* Psalm 33:20
Word/Image: Fulfill
“This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
Luke 24:44
Father of our Now and Forever, Jesus our Trusted Guide into the Kingdom, and Holy Spirit our nurturance of Love and Wisdom, usher in the final Triumph of Your Promises. Lord, we hold fragments of Your Story in our hearts, minds, and bodies. We stare at the pieces of Your Sacred Puzzle and beseech You to work with our limited capacities to make sense of Your Never Ending Story. Help us assemble a convicting picture that serves as a prayerful map for our imaginings. Let us marvel in the details and intricacies of how You bring all things into Order. May our hearts burst with gratitude as we get a peek into the Awesome way You guide the flow of our human and personal histories into an Ocean of Mercy and Salvation. Father, before anything even existed You knew You would give us Your only begotten Son. Jesus, through Your human remembering and Divine Kingship, You open the scriptures and break the bread. And Beautiful Spirit, in Communion with the Father and Son You fulfill the Word by anointing us. Oh, Holy Trinity, grant us lives that participate in actualizing Your Reality of Eternal Perfect Love. AMEN
October 18th, 2021
Word/Image: Entrust
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
2 Timothy 2:2
Father of Infinite Promises, Jesus Lamb of God, and Holy Spirit Transporter of our hearts and spirits, gather us from all corners of the Earth. We ask You to consecrate our lives to the service of Your Laws and Gospel. Deepen our participation in Your Word. May the Sweetness of Your statues illuminate the eyes of our hearts. Show us how we can move in the world as Your faithful witnesses. Coalesce our disparate experiences and scattered understandings into cenacles of prayers that stretch Your Holy Hands into the locked chambers of every human spirit resisting You. Please make us earnest, tireless disciples of Your Way, Truth, and Life. Let us shout Your Goodness and Greatness from the house tops with the conviction of our lives radiant in Your Joy, Peace, and Hope. Father, You have entrusted us with being vocal witnesses of Your Love. Jesus, You send us out among wolves to be the arms that gather Your lambs. And Beautiful Spirit, You cover us with Your Breath of Purpose, Love, and Protection to discern and do the Will of the Father. Jesus we place our trust in You. AMEN
Word/Image: Butterfly
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3: 17-18
Father of Winged Freedom, Jesus of Beauty and Transformation, and Holy Spirit Wind of Sacred Movements let the ripples of Your Grace help us take flight to You. Unveil the Glory of all the Works of Your Hands made Perfect and Imperishable by Your Everlasting Love. Let the Majesty of Your ceaseless Miracles of Creation pierce the empty space around us with Your Holy Delights. Soften our hearts and open the gateways of our spirits. Lord, we want to completely entrust ourselves to You. Please take possession of us. May our hearts be consumed by Your Sacred Heart. Use the details of our lives to manifest Your Wisdom, Compassion and Mercy. Send us forth into the darkness as sparkles of Your Hope. Father, call every soul Home to You. Jesus we love You and adore You, grant us a taste this moment of our Communion with You. And Beautiful Spirit, howl with fierce Winds of Your Passionate Love to knock down every house not built on the Word of God. For now is the time of Your Kingdom. AMEN
Image/Word: Stay Awake!
You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 Thessalonians: 5-8
Father ready the Way, Jesus equip us to greet You, and Beautiful Spirit grab our attentions. Lord in our waiting for You keep us from distractions. Carve the blocks of our time and talents into works of faith that give witness to Your Goodness and Greatness. Show us how to be good and faithful servants. We ask for every Grace we need to redeem and occupy our time to produce the Fruits of Your Will. As commotions and distractions grow around us grant gifts of discernment. May we be strengthened in our endurance and grow in our life of prayer with you and for each other. Father, lavish us with Your Light to keep the eyes of our heart on You. Jesus be our greatest desire. And Holy Spirit, infuse our minds with unshakeable hope, and feed our heart’s anticipation of Eternal Joy. We make all our prayers in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. AMEN
Word/Image: Sanctuary
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3: 16-17
Father Creator Blest, Jesus Son of Man and King of kings, and Holy Spirit, Bonding Ointment of Love, all Glory and Honor be Yours now and forever. Holy, Holy, Holy is Your Name and Lovely is Your Sanctuary. Abide in us that we may become a part of Your infinite Fabric of Unity and Love. Grant us humility, trust, and unshakeable faith. While we are not worthy, we know we belong to You. Grant us Communion in the Mystical Body of Christ. Transform every earthen vessel into resplendent temples sanctified with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Speak Your Word in us, and we will become Your Holy of Holies. Protect us from all evil. Instill in our hearts a distaste for anything that might damage or destroy your temple in us. Father, we put our lives in Your Hands. Jesus, light the Fire of Your Love in the sanctuary of our spirits. And Beautiful Spirit, lift our earnest prayers of praise, worship, and petitions to the throne of God. “May these words of [our] mouth[s] and this meditation of [our] heart[s] be pleasing in your sight, Lord, [our] Rock and [our] Redeemer.”*
* Psalm 19:14
Word/Image: Marvelous Deeds
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
he is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
Psalm 96: 3-6
Father of Majesty, Jesus who calls us by name and touches us daily, Beautiful Spirit, Whirl Wind of Love in Holy Motion we sing Your praise. How can we ever see all the ways You are intersecting our lives with Your Saving Grace? Are You Shy Lord, or is Your Hand of Mercy and Joy too swift for us to notice? Great and marvelous are all of Your Deeds! Grant the eyes of our spirits opportunities to revel in Your Sweet Goodness. Help us to be more attuned to the Poetry of Your Gracious Heart. We place our trust in thy Will. We believe You are ushering in the Promises of Your Word; Your Peace that will reign on earth as it does in Heaven. Until we may be with You in heaven, enjoin us with each other in chains of humble, love that begin to mirror the Order and Ways of Eternal Life. Father, we rely on Your Hands to move all the unmovable things in our lives. Jesus, bring us Your Mind of Wisdom and Your Heart of Compassion. Holy Spirit, anoint our failings and imperfections through our prayers and openness to Christ dwelling in each one of us. Through the Love and Glory of Jesus Christ our Lord and King we make our pray. AMEN
Word/Image: Fathom
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3: 14-19
Father of Burning Love, Jesus, Heart and Soul of Creation, and Beautiful Spirit, Unifying Power of Light and Love satiate our hunger to be with You. How will we ever fathom the depths of Your Love for us? We praise and thank you for keeping nothing from us. In Jesus Christ we experience You perpetually giving Yourself to us. We hear, see and taste Your Goodness. In our desire to plumb the mysteries of Your Love grant us a spirit of surrender. Fix the Light of Your Joy and Peace in the tabernacles of our hearts. Show us how to make our lives one with the City of God You are building in our midst. Father, grant us opportunities to be Your Comfort and Strength to the poor in spirit. Jesus, quiet our anxieties, and steady our trembling and faltering steps in faith with Your Healing Touch. Holy Spirit, orchestrate Sacred Creative Moments for us to co-participate in bringing to fruition the Will of God. For thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and Glory now and forever. AMEN
Word/Image: Son of David
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord, I want to see,” he replied. Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”
Luke 18: 35-42
Father of Vision, Jesus our living Miracle of Mercy and Healing, and Holy Spirit anointing balm of possibilities have pity on us. Like Bartimeous we sit in the dust of our blind lives groveling for purpose and meaning. Give us voice to call out to You. May we be consumed with a burning desire to seek Your Healing. Replace our doubts and fears with pleas for greater faith and trust in You. Embolden us in our assertions with others of Your Truth and Goodness. Grant us the graces of courage and implant in us steadfast hearts locked on You. Father, we submit to you. Mold us and fashion us into Your Vision. Jesus, heal the eyes of our hearts and spirits that we may behold You. And Beautiful Spirit, stir in us a fervor of praise, Joy, and Love . “Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”* AMEN
* Psalm 17:14
Image/Word: Pardon
“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
Matthew 6:14
Father of Compassion, Jesus, King of Love, and Holy Spirit, Comforter of the oppressed and afflicted, transport us to the Sea of Your Mercy. We are redeemed by Your Heart of Forgiveness. Despite the number of times and ways we fall, You are always standing by to pick us up, encourage us, and set us back on a path of salvation. We have hope, because if we acknowledge and repent of our ways, You do not hold our offenses against us. You lead us into the Light of Eternal Day. Through the Power of Jesus Christ dwelling within us, may we learn to imitate Your Ways. As You pardon our trespasses against You, give us the wisdom, grace, and love to pardon those that hurt us. Father, nurture us with Your Compassion. Jesus, teach us how to use the gifts of our human faculties to create lives steeped in Compassion. And Beautiful Spirit, lavish us with opportunities to express Your Love by being Your fountains of gentle understanding, patience, and Compassion. “Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil.” AMEN
Word/Image: Lamp
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5: 14-16
Father of All Light, Jesus the Lamp of Eternal Life in us, and Holy Spirit, infuser of Sweet Fragrant Oil of Love, ignite sacred fires in us. Brandish our fears to standout and shine with clear devotion to You. Let us become bold, clear proclamations of Your Goodness. We want to become better witnesses of Your Mercy, Compassion, and Love. Lord, teach us how to be examples of Your Burning Desire to be in Communion with every soul. Make Your Presence felt through our words, actions, inactions, and prayers. May people be drawn to You through how we share our time, treasure, and talents. Father, may everything we do give glory to You. Jesus peel back the layers of our defenses that are diffusing or preventing your Light from shining forth into the world. And Beautiful Spirit, may Your Love Light enchant the hearts, minds, and souls of all our brothers and sisters. Oh Holy Trinity, “Your Word is a lamp for [our] feet, a light on [our] path.”* AMEN
Psalm: 119:105
Word/Image: Flute
And you will sing
as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;
your hearts will rejoice
as when people playing pipes go up
to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.
Isaiah 30:29
Father of the Law, Jesus our Redeemer, and Beautiful Spirit of Dance orchestrate our lyrical passage to New Life. Teach us to trust and obey Your Ways. We watch the seasons of our lives and the epics of our human history move through the markers of time. We thank you for the milestones of festivals and seasons to remind us of Your watchful Heart always lavishing us with new opportunities to know and love you more dearly. Adorn Your children with new spirits cleansed by the Blood of Christ. Help us to climb to the top of Your Holy Mountain so we can play our flutes and raise our voices in endless songs of praise. Father, we rejoice in Your Creation. Jesus, we take shelter in Your Sacred Heart to be set free by the Precious Blood of Your Glorious Mercy. And Beautiful Spirit, we exalt in the chorus of Joy and Love You have created with all of the angels and saints. We join with them in exclaiming, “Hosanna in the Highest!” AMEN
Word/Image: Rain
Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.
Hosea 6: 3-5
Father Creator Blest, Jesus the Sweetness of Love appearing and living among us, and Holy Spirit of Sanctification, unfurl the details of our lives. Please bless the good in us and expel anything that is keeping us from serving You. The thirsty mouths of our hearts are wide open awaiting the outpouring of Your Amazing Grace. We keep running on the path You set before us. Lengthen our stride and quicken our pace. No matter how steep the climb may become, or how tired we may feel, give us what we need to press forward. Lord, we invite You into all the dry, and parched areas of our souls. Fall upon us with torrents of Your Wisdom, Teaching, and Love. Father harken us to Your Voice. Jesus open the floodgates of Your Living Waters that we may be perpetually baptized in Your Mercy. And Beautiful Spirit, transform our souls into verdant, fertile fields rich with the fruits of God’s Endless Glory. In Joy we belong to You now and forever. AMEN
Word/Image: Contrite
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
Psalm 51:17
Father with Open Arms, Jesus our High Priest, and Holy Spirit full of Radiant Light, initiate us into the depths of Your Love. Help us to see what we fail to see in ourselves that keeps us from encountering You. Lord, our hearts are buttressed with justifications, careless wanton desires, and empty visions of our self-importance. Melt the coldness of our heart’s self-reliance. Fill the abscesses of coldness in our hearts with the ineffable warmth of Love’s unfailing Ways and Truth. Lord, when we come face to face with the shambles of our broken spirits have pity on us. How can we bring You anything worthy of Your Great Love? We offer back to You the Grace of self-knowledge You give to us. We vow not to hide, or disguise our brokenness and desperate need for You. Father welcome us Home. Jesus take possession of our crushed spirits. And Beautiful Spirit lift up a pleasing sacrifice of our contrite hearts. We have Hope because, “the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”* AMEN
* Psalm 34: 18
October 30th, 2021Word/Image: Leaven
He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
Matthew 13:33
Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5: 6-8
Father, who art in heaven, Jesus Bread of Life, and Holy Spirit exciter of growth, prepare us to rise. We submit our ingredients to the constant care of Your Masterful artisanship. Take the water of the events unfolding in our lives. Mix it with the flour of our relationships, experiences, and dispositions into a dough eager to be fermented. Activate the infinite possibilities of Your Kingdom in us by introducing the active leaven of Your Love. We see hidden all around us dough waiting to be kneaded. Please mold us and work us into loaves of bread that feed others with Your Hope. Father, begin to build Your Kingdom here and now as a growing reflection of Your Will at work in heaven. Jesus, You are the Leaven we need to be One with You and in You. And Beautiful Spirit, unleash the hidden latent power of Your Love in our lives and in our world. Oh, God, may we join the celestial realms in giving endless Glory to You. AMEN
Word Image: Shema Israel
“Shema Yisrael ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI echad”; “Hear, O Israel! ADONAI is our God, ADONAI is One”.
“You shall love ADONAI your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign upon your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates”.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
“If, then you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving ADONAI your God and serving God will all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle and thus you shall eat your fill. Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them. For ADONAI’s anger will flare up against you, and ADONAI will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good and that ADONAI is giving you. AMEN Translate source of Jewish Prayer: https://www.artazia.com/shema-yisrael-prayer/
Chant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxO09BUrkMk
