The Bishop's Blog

We’re not in Pasadena anymore! Kathy and I are guests of Elizabeth and Tom Tierney, friends from St John Chrysostom Church days; here in Idaho, they love St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Sun Valley.

Grant, we pray, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with awe the Paschal feast may be found worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the...

Preaching the Resurrection. Celebrating Holy Eucharist. Lifting up the ministry of the new St. John's Cathedral interim dean and priest in charge, the Very Rev. Anne Sawyer, who was warmly welcomed...

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection,...

Holy Saturday is a good day for faithful people in a secularizing time, quiet hours for discerning how to make our way in a Holy Saturday world. In the old Apostle’s Creed, we would says that Jesus...

Good Friday is a good day to think about fairness and justice, since our Lord Jesus Christ enjoyed neither at human hands. The gospels don’t provide journalistic clarity about what happened. But...

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross;...

Almighty God, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our...

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...

My album from this morning’s renewal of vows and chrism mass at St. John's Cathedral, with 120 fellow bishops, deacons, and priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. A joy to spend Holy...

Almighty God, who by the power of the Holy Spirit anointed your Son to be Messiah and Priest forever, grant that all whom you have called to his service may confess the faith of Christ crucified,...