The Bishop's Blog

One day 113 years ago, when William Howard Taft was president, Pasadena Episcopalians of African descent gathered at Mrs. Gloria Weatherton’s house on South Fair Oaks to discuss starting a mission...

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those...

Gracious Father, who called your servant Thérèse to a life of fervent prayer: Give to us that spirit of prayer and zeal for the ministry of the Gospel, that the love of Christ may be known...

In June 1962, with the late Tom Hayden as principal scribe, Students for a Democratic Society released the Port Huron Statement, which we correctly associate with the civil rights movement and its...

O merciful God, who taught us in your holy Word that you would not willingly afflict us, look with pity upon the sorrows of all for whom our prayers are offered, especially those in Ian’s path....

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including members of the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change, convened by the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy; they’re...

Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals: Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by...

Almighty God, who hast promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in thy Son’s Name: We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ear to us who have now made our prayers and supplications unto...

Since its founding in 2004 by Bishop Jon Bruno, IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, Los Angeles, an agency of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, has provided resettlement, legal,...

Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before you for all members of...

When I visited St. James' Episcopal Church- South Pasadena, CA on Sunday to preach and preside, the wardens and vestry gave me the privilege and blessing of announcing that they had called the Rev....

Perfect in us, Almighty God, whatever is lacking of your gifts: of faith, to increase it; of hope, to establish it; of love, to kindle it; that like your servant Lancelot Andrewes we may live in the...