The Bishop's Blog

Bonds of fellowship and mutual trust painstakingly built up all year long at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park were quickly shattered today at our annual staff lunch and gift grab. Canon Serena Evans...

Heavenly God, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you,...

Gracious God, whose Church's calendar is on AST (Advent Saving Time) this year, we give you thanks for an extra week of eager expectation as well as for busy lay and ordained leaders all over the...

On behalf of all of us at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park; from Kathy Hannigan O'Connor’s and my home to yours; in our companionship along the broad Anglican way, seeking God’s righteousness, justice,...

One hears the same thing over and over about St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Long Beach, CA. Once people visit, they tend to stay. They’re right. Just today, I visited, and I had trouble tearing...

Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky, who died in 1963, was jailed by Stalin for ten years, for imaginary political crimes of the type that paranoid tyrants make up. He founded a secondary school in...

Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity...

Like the Nativity narratives in Matthew and Luke, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” reveals something new every time. Leaping from the page as I read this year was a detail about the ghost of...

Almighty God, who strengthened your servant Dorothy Sayers with eloquence to defend Christian teaching: Keep us, we pray, steadfast in your true religion, that in constancy and peace we may always...

Over 40 colleagues from St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park and IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, Los Angeles came over to Kathy Hannigan O'Connor's and my home (aka the episcopal...

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...

Judge eternal, throned in splendor, you gave Juan de la Cruz strength of purpose and mystical faith that sustained him even through the dark night of the soul: Shed your light on all who love you,...