The Bishop’s Blog

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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For now, life and love

For now, life and love

On my reading list this Christmas was Graham Greene’s novel “The Confidential Agent,” which he wrote in 1938, on the eve of World War II. Its hero...

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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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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: