The Bishop's Blog

O God, our strength and our salvation, you called your servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of your people and a defender of your church; Keep your household from all evil and raise up faithful...

On the sixth day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallSix great GranadiansFive Lambeth friends!Four priests a-partyingThree mitered angelsTwo cuddling canonsAnd wedging prayers into the Western Wall.

Diplomat, publisher, art collector, and philanthropist Walter Annenberg was both generous and thrifty. He gave $500 million in matching grants to the nation’s public schools and bequeathed...

On the fifth day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallFive Lambeth friends!Four priests a-partyingThree mitered angelsTwo cuddling canonsAnd wedging prayers into the Western Wall.

O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...

We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the...

On the fourth day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallFour priests a-partyingThree mitered angelsTwo cuddling canonsAnd wedging prayers into the Western Wall.

In a song called “Mary Mild” on “The Last Month Of The Year,” the Kingston Trio’s 1960 Christmas album, three boys of noble birth won’t play with Jesus because he was “but a poor maid’s child, born...

On the third day of Christmas, a three-person summit in Fontana to begin to plan an abundant future for St. Luke's Outreach Ministry Center, where San Marino-born the Rev. Jim Maronde has been...

On the third day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallThree mitered angelsTwo cuddling canonsAnd wedging prayers into the Western Wall.

Shed upon your Church, O Lord, the brightness of your light, that we, being illumined by the teaching of your apostle and evangelist John, may so walk in the light of your truth, that at length we...

On the second day of Christmas I'm happy to recall Two cuddling canons And wedging prayers into the Western Wall