The Bishop’s Blog

Good Friday and strife in the Holy Land
Good Friday should turn Christians into careful students of all the ways modern states use power against the vulnerable. While it grieves me to say...

Daily prayer: Good Friday
Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands...

A Maundy Thursday story
This is my Maundy Thursday story. Kathy and I returned from our Holy Wednesday evening dinner at Denny’s to find about a dozen police cars in front...

Daily prayer: Maundy Thursday
Almighty God, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive...

The Risen Christ With Us
To all the people of the Diocese of Los Angeles, greetings in Christ this Holy Week and Easter Day! The depiction of our Lord in the photo was my...