The Bishop’s Blog

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-30-22

Mar 30, 2022

Source of all we hope or dread Sheepdog, jackal, rattler, swan We hunt your face and long to trust That your hid mouth will say again: "Let there be...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-29-22

Mar 29, 2022

Almighty God, your son anointed the apostles and us, their successors, as prophets of reconciliation, to teach, preach, act, and especially pray...

The Bishop’s Blog: St. Peter’s, Santa Maria

Mar 28, 2022

With over 100,000 souls, Santa Maria is the biggest city in Santa Barbara county, a jewel of the Central Coast, well known in the oil and wine...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-28-22

Mar 28, 2022

God of all, on Saturday in Poland, Ukrainian children asked Joe Biden to pray for family members who had stayed behind to defend their country. Hear...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-27-22

Mar 27, 2022

Gracious God, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread,...

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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: