The Bishop's Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...