by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 16, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we (and especially, this day, we fathers) may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who...
by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 15, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary, and that our rest here upon...
by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 15, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
My scrapbook from today’s EfM Education for Ministry graduation ceremony at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park. We honored 21 students from ten Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles missions and parishes, plus two on-line cohorts, who completed a rigorous four-year...
by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 15, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
When a Union general proclaimed in Galveston 159 years ago today that the enslaved people of Texas were at last to be considered free people, the Civil War was over. The so-called confederacy had ceased to be. But in the depths of Texas, which had entered the Union...
by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 14, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including former Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, now a House candidate, at a candidates’ forum hosted for Santa Clarita-area faith leaders by the Very Rev. Christopher Montella...
by John Harvey Taylor | Jun 14, 2024 | The Bishop's Blog
Gracious God, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing after selfish goals. Help them to take failure, not as a measure of...
