The Bishop's Blog

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,...

Loving God, for the salvation of all you gave Jesus Christ as light to a world in darkness: Illumine us, as you did your daughter Lucy, with the light of Christ, that by the merits of his passion,...

O God of mercies, grant that all who invoke the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe may seek with ever more lively faith the progress of peoples in the ways of justice and of peace. Through our Lord Jesus...

O God, the creator and preserver of all, we humbly beseech you for all sorts and conditions of people; that you would be pleased to make your ways known unto them, your saving health unto all...

Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ...

In La Gran Posada tonight at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, we anticipated the nine-day Mexican tradition of Las Posadas, usually held Dec. 16-24, when worshipers reenact Mary and Joseph’s search...

Gracious God, you called your monk Thomas Merton to proclaim your justice out of silence, and moved him in his contemplative writings to perceive and value Christ at work in the faiths of others:...