The Bishop's Blog

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that...

O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...

Leave it to a pastor and preacher to say what everyone knows but still needs to be said. The duty fell on Sunday to the Rev. Jason Shelby, beginning his third year as rector of St. Francis Episcopal...

The Rev. Argola Haynes, or Golie, as her friends and family called her, was born in San Bernardino in 1940 because her mother, Ruth, said no. Her father, the Rev. T.A. Patterson, an AME minister who...

As of Sunday evening, as far as I can discern, the United States government has said nothing about the IDF’s bombing on Palm Sunday morning of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. Israel gave an ER doctor...

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example...

O Lord, in your goodness you bestow abundant graces on your elect: Look with favor, we entreat you, upon those who in these Lenten days are being prepared for Holy Baptism, and grant them the help...

O Lord, you relieve our necessity out of the abundance of your great riches: Grant that we may accept with joy the salvation you bestow, and manifest it to all the world by the quality of our lives;...