The Bishop's Blog
The Bishop’s Blog: LGBTQ+ Ministry Garden Party
My scrapbook from today's Diocese of Los Angeles: LGBTQ Ministry garden party at Canon Kathy Hannigan O'Connor's and my house in Pasadena, aka your episcopal residence, celebrating 30 years of...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-26-22
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by...
The Bishop’s Blog: RIP the Rev. Fay Hogan
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Rev. Dr. Faye Hogan was a Tucson police officer and a California teacher and school administrator before being ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Los...
The Bishop’s Blog: Preparing for Episcopal Night at Dodger Stadium
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles returns to Dodger Stadium on Friday, Sept. 23, our first Dodger Night since 2019. The main event is the matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals. Both are leading...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-25-22
Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly pray, to Jos Tharakan as he is consecrated and...
The Bishop’s Blog: Overturning Roe v. Wade
SCOTUS’s five-member anti-Roe majority want states to decide. Check! In the richest, most diverse, most politically powerful one of them all, notwithstanding today’s ruling and for the foreseeable...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-24-22
Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his teaching...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-23-22
O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-22-22
Almighty God, by whose grace and power your holy martyr Alban triumphed over suffering and was faithful even unto death: Grant us, who now remember him in thanksgiving, to be so faithful in our...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-21-22
Almighty God, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love whatever is just and true and good,...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-20-22
Almighty God, you rescued your people from slavery in Egypt, and throughout the ages you have never failed to hear the cries of the captives. We remember before you our siblings in Galveston, Texas...
The Bishop’s Blog: Retirement of the Rev. Tom Carey
The son of Harry Carey Jr., whose 90+ film credits included “The Searchers,” “Red River,” and “Rio Bravo,” the Very Rev. Thomas Carey, retiring next week as vicar of historic Church of the Epiphany,...