Thursday, January 23, 2025

We enter your sacred prayer space, seeking revelation of your mysteries. You embrace us, and with a welcoming kiss, you invite us to stay and listen to you. Within your veil, you remind us of how you have walked with your people since the beginning of time.

We gather with multitudes of believers in celebration. We are grateful for your obedience to your earthly mother–she, who pondered in her heart the many observances of your glory from times before you were born. She, who was near to God, knew your nature as fully God and fully human. Though human in your initial response to Mary, even still, your divine nature responded with love and obedience.

Give us understanding, so we will look with love upon others and celebrate with each other wherever we are on our journey with you. Bless us with overflowing kindness to ourselves and others, so we will greet each other in a good way.

You are our LORD of Love. You see the inequity of human laws and set all things equal among your believers. We enter your sacred prayer space with the sins of our ancestors upon us. But you place your perfect laws of equity, equality and love before us.

We gather together on the heights of Mount Zion and beside streams of water on your Sacred Path. You have brought us from all directions to be together in this land of our sojourn, in your sacred prayer space. We wept as we came. We wept for joy, relief, fear and grief. But you are wiping the tears from our eyes.

Thank you, Divine Family, for this sacred time with you. Thank you for Jesus, who is the image of God, helping us to see, know, and experience your love in real and tangible ways. Thank you, our purpose is in Jesus.