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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Holy Wednesday

Daily prayer: Holy Wednesday

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of...

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Renewal of Vows 2024

Renewal of Vows 2024

My scrapbook from today's chrism mass (where we blessed a year's supply of holy oil for our missions and parishes) and renewal of ordinations vows...

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Daily prayer: For the clergy

Daily prayer: For the clergy

Almighty God, giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders of ministers in your Church: Give your grace, we...

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Daily prayer: Holy Monday

Daily prayer: Holy Monday

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: