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The Bishop’s Blog

Second Christmas celebration

Second Christmas celebration

Kathy and I had a second Christmas Day today in Yorba Linda thanks to the hospitality of Mark and Valerie Passarella and Harriet, 4; our daughter...

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Daily prayer: Thomas á Becket

Daily prayer: Thomas á Becket

O God, our strength and our salvation, you called your servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of your people and a defender of your church; Keep...

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Daily prayer: Holy Innocents

Daily prayer: Holy Innocents

We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent...

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Daily prayer: Stephen the martyr

Daily prayer: Stephen the martyr

We give you thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to heaven and prayed for his persecutors to your Son...

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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: