The Bishop's Blog
Graduation at St. John’s School, Rancho Santa Margarita
My scrapbook from commencement ceremonies Wednesday evening at St. John's Episcopal School in Rancho Santa Margarita, where Canon Kathy Hannigan O'Connor and I served for 12 years, when I was vicar...
Daily prayer: Melania the Elder
Most High and Merciful God, who called your servant Melania to forsake earthly comforts in order to devote herself to studying the scriptures and to welcoming the poor: Instruct us in the ways of...
Daily prayer: for the addicted
Blessed Lord, you ministered to all who came to you: Look with compassion upon all who through addiction have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of your unfailing mercy;...
A visit to St. Michael’s Ministry Center, Riverside
Shortly after the Rev. Canon Mary Crist began her volunteer ministry to the food- and housing-insecure at St. Michael's Riverside Episcopal Ministry Center at Bishop Bruno’s invitation 12 years ago,...
Daily prayer: Boniface
Pour out your Holy Spirit, O God, upon your church in every land, that like your servant Boniface we might proclaim the Gospel to all nations, that your kingdom might be enlarged and that your holy...
Visiting St. Hilary’s Church, Hesperia
For Trinity Sunday at St. Hilary's Episcopal Church in Hesperia, in the desert above the Cajon Pass, we didn’t have a smidge of June gloom — just shining sun and faces as seven were confirmed or...
Daily prayer: Trinity Sunday
Almighty God, you have revealed to your Church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace to continue steadfast in the confession of this...
Graduation at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, San Juan Capistrano
What a joy to head down to St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano Friday evening, as I do every June, to address 113 graduating seniors, their families and friends, and all of my St....
Daily prayer: Martyrs of Uganda
O God, by whose providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church: Grant that we who remember before you the blessed martyrs of Uganda, may, like them, be steadfast in our faith in Jesus...
Daily prayer: for mission
Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching...
‘Never’
World peace spoiler alert. On the last page of 2021’s “Never” by Ken Follett, a fictional U.S. president is weeping. “She was possessed by a helpless grief so overwhelming that her whole body...
Chaplain Michael Bell departs Good Samaritan Hospital
Though what remained of its formal ties to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles ended in early 2020, Good Samaritan Hospital, now part of a highly respected hospital group called PIH Health, still...