The Bishop's Blog
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,...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-19-22
Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we (and especially, this day, we fathers) may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your...
The Bishop’s Blog: Juneteenth
It’s our faith that the risen Christ sets us free, proclaimed the prophets’ vision of justice for all God’s people, and promises peace, now and eternally. In the mind of God, freedom, justice, and...
The Bishop’s Blog: Education for Ministry graduation and Juneteenth celebration
Big doings today at our Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles HQs, beginning with the first in-person graduation ceremonies since 2019 for our four-year EfM Education for Ministry students, who devote...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-18-22
Almighty and everlasting God, who kindled the flame of your love in the heart of your holy martyr Bernard Mizeki: Grant to us, your humble servants, a like faith and power of love, that we...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-16-22
O God, who raises up scholars for your church in every generation; we praise you for the wisdom and insight granted to your bishop and theologian Joseph Butler, and pray that your church may never...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-15-22
O God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all creatures: Grant that your church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, may continually offer to you all glory and thanksgiving, and attain with your...
The Bishop’s Blog: Campbell Hall Graduation 2022
From the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion tonight, during Campbell Hall’s commencement ceremonies, I was perfectly positioned to see an eruption of joy in the front row. Because there sat...
The Bishop’s Blog: The vicar of Anaheim
The gifted vicar of thriving St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Anaheim, California), where over 200 worshiped on Trinity Sunday, the Rev. Juan Jimenez is also a trenchant observer of the political...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 6-14-22
Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may...
The Bishop’s Blog: Farewell to Brother Ambrose
On behalf of all of us in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, I bade au revoir this evening to Br Ambrose Cristóbal, a professed member of the Society of St....