The Bishop's Blog

Making his greeting, teaching, friend-making way this week all around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the Rt. Rev. Silvestre Romero, bishop of Guatemala, was at Iglesia Episcopal de La...

Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all might live in health and decency: Help us, following her example and in union...

O God of all, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in...

The Rt. Rev. Silvestre Romero, bishop of Guatemala and son of a bishop, is spending the week in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, visiting St. Stephen's Hollywood and St. Barnabas Eagle Rock,...

Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we...

Triune God, Father and Mother to us all, who showed your servant Julian revelations of your nurturing and sustaining love: Move our hearts, like hers, to seek you above all things, for in giving us...

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church is expected to decide this summer if Holy Baptism should still be required before people take Holy Communion in The Episcopal Church. No one likes...

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 Gregory of Nazianzus, we...

Between 1948-73, when Francis Eric Bloy was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the number of communicants doubled, and we grew from 144 to 186 missions and parishes. A...

Most gracious God, from your heart you gave birth to all creation, and through your Son, Jesus Christ, you gather up all your children under the shadow of your wings: Through maternal love may we...

A few shots (not all by me) from this morning's confirmation service at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles, when 40 people from nine churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles took the...

A few snaps from this afternoon's joyous celebration of the life of the Rev. Canon George Regas, rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena from 1967-1995, prophet of justice and hope, critic of the...