The Bishop's Blog

For 30 years, Kathy Hannigan O'Connor and I have been friends and, for much of that, colleagues of Bernardo Cruz, a facilities manager at the Nixon library in Yorba Linda, our old hang. Thanks to...

What makes a church successful? Full coffers and pews? I wouldn’t turn up my nose at it. Yet this morning at St. Anselm’s Episcopal Church in Garden Grove, success according to another metric was...

Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in...

Almighty God, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise for our justification: Give us grace so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve you in pureness...

Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in...

The phone was ringing when I arrived at Canon Lydia Lopez’s Alhambra residence this evening, and it was ringing as I left. This giant of justice was celebrating her 80th birthday, and everyone...

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in...

O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that we, who have been raised with him, may abide in his presence...

Grant, we pray, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with awe the Paschal feast may be found worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the...

My scrapbook from the Great Vigil of Easter last night at St. John's Cathedral, where Toye, 29, was baptized (then clothed in an alb and brought up to the altar for communion), Jason, Roma, Ryan,...

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection,...

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and...