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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: To know God in faith

Daily prayer: To know God in faith

O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through...

Daily prayer: To share in divine life

Daily prayer: To share in divine life

O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son...

Daily prayer: Elizabeth Ann Seton

Daily prayer: Elizabeth Ann Seton

Give us grace, O God, to love you in all things and above all things; that, following the example of your servant Elizabeth Ann Seton, we might express our love for you in the service of others....

Sacred Resistance Meeting

Sacred Resistance Meeting

Members and friends of Sacred Resistance - Los Angeles, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Barnabas Eagle Rock. All those worried...

Daily prayer: For families

Daily prayer: For families

          Almighty God, who sets the solitary in families: we commend to your continual care the homes in which your people dwell. Put far from them every root of...

Daily prayer: For the victims of attacks

Daily prayer: For the victims of attacks

Gracious God, we pray for the victims of the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, for their families and neighbors, and for everyone in the world for whom 2025 began in violence, fear, and...

Daily prayer: Love of the Savior

Daily prayer: Love of the Savior

Eternal God, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus...

Daily prayer: For light in our lives

Daily prayer: For light in our lives

Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

Daily prayer: To know God more truly

Daily prayer: To know God more truly

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the...

Daily prayer: For light in our lives

Daily prayer: For light in our lives

Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

A complete unknown

A complete unknown

I remember a lot of empty seats when I went to see Bob Dylan and his band perform in a theater in downtown San Diego in 1979. He’d just released the first of three albums of Christian songs, “Slow...

Lunch with the Rev. Canon David Chee

Lunch with the Rev. Canon David Chee

Though he retired as rector of St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Monterey Park in 2017, the Rev. Canon David Chee is usually in town for a service or two at Christmastime, by invitation of the...