The Bishop's Blog
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-14-22
O God, you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth, and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that people everywhere may seek...
The Bishop’s Blog: Bishop Silvestre Romero at Iglesia Episcopal de La Magdalena, Glendale
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-13-22
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-12-22
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 Bishop’s Blog: Visit of Bishop Sylvestre Romero of Guatemala
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,...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-11-22
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-10-22
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 Bishop’s Blog: Thoughts on Baptism and Communion
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-9-22
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Andrew & St. Charles Church, Granada Hills
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 5-8-22 (Mother’s Day)
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Diocese-wide confirmation service
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...