The Bishop's Blog

O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the...

O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day our sister Judi VanCura-Riley. We thank you for giving her to us, her family and friends, especially her husband, the Rev. Reese M Riley,...

This week Star Trek went where it’s never gone before these nearly 60 years — excellence in musical theater. In “Subspace Rhapsody,” Thursday’s new episode of "Strange New Worlds,” a pre-Captain...

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being...

,You meet the most amazing people around St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, including the beloved longtime manager of the Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union, Urla Gomes, finally retiring (or just...

Almighty God, who revealed the resurrection of your Son to Joanna, Mary, and Salome as they faithfully came bearing myrrh to his tomb: Grant that we too may perceive the presence of the risen Lord...

O God of all, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and people everywhere love you and serve you in peace;...

Merciful God, whose servant Joseph of Arimathea with reverence and godly fear prepared the body of our Lord and Savior for burial and laid it in his own tomb: Grant to us, your faithful people,...

Ron Chatman can’t say off the top of his head how long he’s been senior warden at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Compton. Would forever work for you? But Phil Trani, legendary owner of the Long...

Canon Kathy Hannigan O'Connor and I have granddaughters Harriet and Frannie, four and going on six, living in Yorba Linda and San Diego. Amid the complexities of modern family life — these little...

Almighty God, who called Ignatius of Loyola to the service of your Divine Majesty and to seek you in all things; Give us also the grace to labor without counting the cost and to seek no reward other...

O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through...