The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Remembering the slaughter of the 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...

Daily prayer: For light
Shed upon your Church, O Lord, the brightness of your light, that we, being illumined by the teaching of your apostle and evangelist John, may so...

Daily prayer: St. Stephen
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...

Daily prayer: Christmas Day
O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer,...

Christmas Eve at St. John’s Cathedral
My scrapbook from Christmas Eve at St. John's Cathedral, where the interim dean and priest in charge, the Very Rev. Anne Sawyer, unveiled...