The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: Clemente of Rome
Almighty God, you chose your servant Clement of Rome to recall the Church in Corinth to obedience and stability: Grant that your Church may be grounded and settled in your truth by the indwelling of...
Amazing people in late November
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bobby Kotick, famed business leader, philanthropist, devoted Episcopal schools board member and benefactor,...
Daily prayer: Clive Staples Lewis
O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give you thanks for Clive Staples Lewis, whose sanctified imagination lit fires of faith in young and old alike. Surprise us also with your joy and...
Bible Study at St. Barnabas, Eagle Rock
St. Barnabas Eagle Rock does Bible study right. This week 40 were present at the historic church as the Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton and the Rev. Carlos Ruvalcaba, leading a bracing bilingual...
Daily prayer: Incline our hearts to the Lord
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...
Daily prayer: Edmund the Martyr
Merciful God, who gave grace and fortitude to Edmund to die nobly for your Name: Bestow on us your servants the shield of faith, with which we can withstand the assaults of our ancient enemy;...
Sanctuary city press conference and rally
A great speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, once said that “all politics are local.” In the United States, it may soon be that the only decent politics are local politics. Nearly half of U.S....
Daily prayer: For peaceful love and service of God
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;...
Visiting St. Philip’s, South LA
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles, a mile and a half east of USC, is a multicultural miracle, a harbinger of church future, disguised as a struggling parish. A lively 70 — young,...
Daily prayer: Hilda of Whitby
O God of peace, by whose grace the abbess Hilda was endowed with gifts of justice, prudence, and strength to rule as a wise mother over the nuns and monks of her household: Raise up these gifts in...
Daily prayer: To embrace holy Scriptures
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed...
Daily prayer: Margaret of Scotland
O God, who called your servant Margaret to an earthly throne that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave her zeal for your church and love for your people: Mercifully grant that we also...