The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: For the church
Gracious God, we pray for your holy catholic church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in any thing it is...
Advent Lessons at St. John’s Cathedral
“Lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth.” The St. John's Cathedral choir sang these words from an ancient Christian liturgy last night to begin a service of Advent...
Daily prayer: Channing Moore Williams
O God, who in your providence called Channing Moore Williams to the ministry of this church and gave him the gifts and the perseverance to preach the Gospel in new lands: Inspire us, by his example...
Daily prayer: Advent begins
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility;...
Daily prayer: To teach children well
Almighty God, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love whatever is just and true and good,...
Daily prayer: Grace and thanksgiving
Gracious Creator, We give thanks not only for the food that sustains our bodies but for the beauty that nourishes our souls. We say grace before the play and the opera. For the stories that reveal...
Community Thanksgiving Dinner at St. Paul’s Commons
Canon Luis Garibay has helped host 17 St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park community Thanksgiving dinners, organizing volunteers, cadging for donated turkeys, and mashing more than his share of potatoes....
Lincoln and political division at Thanksgiving
We are so used to being importuned to count our blessings and avoid politics at Thanksgiving that we forget that the politicians forged our modern tradition in the fire of sin — slavery, and our...
Daily prayer: For knowledge of truth
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered...
Visiting St. Hilary’s, Hesperia, to celebrate the Rev. Jonathan Sy
Planners jokingly put up a sign calling it a good riddance party with the words crossed out. But the light spirits could not fully obscure the sadness. St. Hilary's Episcopal Church in Hesperia was...
Daily prayer: James Huntington
Preserve your people, O God, from discouragement in the face of adversity, as you did your servant James Huntington, knowing that when you have begun a good work you will bring it to completion....
Daily prayer: Freedom and unity in Christ
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and...