The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

The Risen Christ With Us

The Risen Christ With Us

To all the people of the Diocese of Los Angeles, greetings in Christ this Holy Week and Easter Day! The depiction of our Lord in the photo was my gift from Monica Gonzalez-Gutierrez, a member of La...

Daily prayer: Holy Wednesday

Daily prayer: Holy Wednesday

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...

Renewal of Vows 2024

Renewal of Vows 2024

My scrapbook from today's chrism mass (where we blessed a year's supply of holy oil for our missions and parishes) and renewal of ordinations vows by us priests, deacons, and bishops in the...

Daily prayer: For the clergy

Daily prayer: For the clergy

Almighty God, giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders of ministers in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly pray, to all who are called to any office...

Daily prayer: Holy Monday

Daily prayer: Holy Monday

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...

Palm Sunday at St. George’s Church, Hawthorne

Palm Sunday at St. George’s Church, Hawthorne

I bring greetings in the name of Christ on behalf of the whole Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Over 130 churches are doing their best this morning to relive our Lord’s dizzying week's descent from...

Daily prayer: Palm Sunday

Daily prayer: Palm Sunday

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...

New Camino: a seminar on Hispanic ministry

New Camino: a seminar on Hispanic ministry

Some 40 lay and ordained leaders representing 13 Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles missions and parishes spent two days walking the New Camino this weekend at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, learning...

UC San Diego Alumni reception

UC San Diego Alumni reception

I’ve never been to a high school or college reunion — until Thursday, when I was surrounded by fellow UC San Diego alums during a reception at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Four of us...

Daily prayer: Saturday in the fifth week of Lent

Daily prayer: Saturday in the fifth week of Lent

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...

Daily prayer: Friday in the fifth week of Lent

Daily prayer: Friday in the fifth week of Lent

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;...

Daily prayer: Thursday in the fifth week of Lent

Daily prayer: Thursday in the fifth week of Lent

O God, you have called us to be your children, and have promised that those who suffer with Christ will be heirs with him of your glory: Arm us with such trust in him that we may ask no rest from...