The Bishop's Blog
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-24-22
Eternal God, author of our lives, gatherer of our families, witness of all our births and deaths, today our prayers encircle all those wounded at a distance by the racist attacks in Buffalo and...
The Bishop’s Blog: Prayer vigil at First AME Church, Los Angeles
The Rev. Dr. Fennie Hsin-Fen Chang, vicar of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hacienda Heights, CA, and the church’s accompanist, Janice M. Lee, were among those attending a prayer vigil tonight at...
The Bishop’s Blog: Iglesia Episcopal Immanuel, El Monte
Eighteen confirmations and receptions and 15 first communions, the tradition at Iglesia Episcopal Immanuel in El Monte (where young children are invited to receive nevertheless). Ten children...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-23-22
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to...
The Bishop’s Blog: Visits with Bishop Jefferts Schori and a priest near the end of life
What a joy to sit over coffee this afternoon near LAX with the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, former presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, and compare notes about our Sunday visitations...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-22-22
O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-21-21
Eternal God, who gives good gifts to all people, and who grants the spirit of generosity: Give us, we pray you, hearts always open to hear your word, that, following the example of your servant...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-20-22
Gracious God, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gives thanks for the combined 34 years of abundant pastoral, prophetic, institution-building ministry of Mark Kowalewski and Daniel Ade as co-deans...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-19-22
Direct your Church, O Lord, into the beauty of holiness, that, following the good example of your servant Dunstan, we may honor your Son Jesus Christ with our lips and in our lives; to the glory of...
A Word to the Church: Political Violence and Christian Citizenship
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. — John 13:35 My siblings in Christ: Acts of gun violence, one of them in our own diocese, weighed on our...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-18-22
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Of hummingbirds, crows and civilization
Kathy Hannigan O'Connor saw a crow in the backyard a few weeks ago, perched on the edge of the water feature with a hummingbird in its beak. After squirrels invaded our hummingbird feeder, Kathy...