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The Bishop’s Blog

Ninth day of Christmas 2022

Ninth day of Christmas 2022

On the ninth day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallNine for confirmingEight father's unionersSeven tots a-toilingSix great GranadiansFive Lambeth...

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St. Mark’s Church, Downey

St. Mark’s Church, Downey

Namesake of our Lord, Jesus Ruiz Flores was one of 1,500 who died on the streets of Los Angeles County last year. I brought home a luminarium...

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Eighth day of Christmas 2022-23

Eighth day of Christmas 2022-23

On the eighth day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallEight father's unionersSeven tots a-toilingSix great GranadiansFive Lambeth friends!Four...

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Daily prayer: Holy name of Jesus

Daily prayer: Holy name of Jesus

Eternal God, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him...

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Fellow passengers and rich days

Fellow passengers and rich days

Christmas is a tender time as it is. Our expectations, hopes, and regrets. God coming so close, becoming incarnate, yearning for us, also yearning...

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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: