The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-30-22
Aug 30, 2022
Most Merciful God, who despises not a broken and contrite heart and has promised to fill those who hunger and thirst after righteousness; We humbly beseech you, remember not the sins and offenses of...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-29-22
Aug 29, 2022
Almighty God, who called your servant John the Baptist to go before your Son our Lord both in life and death; Grant that we who remember his witness may with boldness speak your truth and in...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-28-22
Aug 28, 2022
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-27-22
Aug 27, 2022
O Loving God, whose will it is that everyone should come to you and be saved: We bless your holy Name for your servants Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle, and we pray that you will continually...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-26-22
Aug 26, 2022
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-25-22
Aug 25, 2022
O God, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel, in particular Tim; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every...
The Bishop’s Blog: A conversation with Archbishop Naoum of Jerusalem
Aug 24, 2022
In the garden of the historic American Colony Hotel, I spent my last evening in Jerusalem in a long, rich conversation over dinner with the Most Rev. Hosam Rafa Naoum, archbishop and primate of The...
The Bishop’s Blog: Prayer-bearer in Jerusalem
Aug 24, 2022
I was prayer-bearer my last morning in Jerusalem. I copied the names people sent me from around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and beyond and offered them to our God in Christ while saying...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-24-22
Aug 24, 2022
Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love what he believed and preach what he taught; through...
The Bishop’s Blog: Jerusalem – a pilgrimage of prayer
Aug 23, 2022
Jerusalem is by no means a city of prayer for all people. Psalm 87 mysteriously says this: “Of Zion it shall be said, ‘Everyone was born in her.'” Billions would take umbrage. But while the city’s...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-23-22
Aug 23, 2022
O Lord Jesus Christ, you became poor for our sake, that we might be made rich through your poverty: Guide and sanctify, we pray, those whom you call to follow you under the vows of poverty,...
The Bishop’s Blog: Jerusalem – A tailor’s shop and David’s Tower
Aug 22, 2022
I first met Sami Barsoum in 2007 when I walked into his tailor’s shop at No. 26 St. Mark’s St. in the Old City and walked out with my favorite white stole. Red and green on subsequent visits. Today,...











