The Bishop's Blog

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross;...

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ...

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that...

My album from this morning's annual (one may hope again) renewal of vows for Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles bishops, deacons, and priests at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles. We last did it in...

O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and...

At St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Anaheim, California), the Rev. Juan Jimenez, its vicar of vicars, offers two services Sunday mornings, 9:30 a.m. in Spanish and 11:30 in English. I was along on...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example...

Almighty God, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opposed Hitler from the beginning, gave his life to undermine and oppose him, and preached that in an unjust world, the church’s vocation was to suffer as your son...

Almighty God, in a world transfixed and threatened by a new war in Ukraine, the ancient one in the Holy Land has been the subject of testimony these last two weeks before the Committee on Social...

Holy God, holy and mighty, you call us together into one communion and fellowship: Open our eyes, we pray, as you opened the eyes of your servant Tikhon, 11th patriarch of Moscow and All Russia,...

God of all, when times are difficult, with no clear path forward to peace and security for your people, we pray for the grace of a small measure of your patience so that we may trust in the...