The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: For nighttime
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord...

Daily prayer: For prisoners of conscience
O God, whose Son forgave his enemies while he was suffering shame and death: Strengthen those who suffer for the sake of conscience; when they are...

A reflection for Lent
A year or two ago, walking on Rosemead Blvd. near our home in east Pasadena, I came across a man lying on the sidewalk and behaving badly. Rushing...

Daily prayer: For all our works
Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued,...

Of sight and hearing
Bridges between soul and the wider world, my sight and hearing are threatening to return to dust ahead of the rest of the package. In my 70th year,...