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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-20-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-20-22

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-19-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-19-22

Almighty God, your servant St. Joseph, whom the church remembers this day, watched over and made a home for your son and his mother: In all our networks of dependence and interdependence, keep us...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-18-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-18-22

Almighty God, creator of worlds: Humanity has new cause to repent of our sin of creating the means of destroying ourselves. Without nuclear weapons, his armies outgunned and outmanned, Putin would...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-17-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-17-22

Almighty God , in whom on the last day, under the mighty wing of Christ, war will cease and no tears will be shed: Beholding a world on the brink of a catastrophic war and grieving the cold war of...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-16-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-16-22

Almighty God, who summons the nations to acts of wisdom and justice: We offer prayers today for all in authority in the U.S. and the Atlantic alliance, especially when the imperatives of standing up...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-15-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-15-22

Almighty God, we pray for the safety of Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who risked her life interrupting Putin propaganda with a message of truth and peace, and of all in Russia who are...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-14-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-14-22

Eternal God, whose son is the way, the truth, and the life: Journalists in wartime — those whom despots call enemies of the people — risk their lives by telling us the truth and showing us the way....

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-13-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 3-13-22

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily Prayer 3-12-22

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily Prayer 3-12-22

Almighty God, whose son proclaimed that all would be one in you: Global crisis – climate change and pandemic; a war thousands of miles away that raises the price we pay for gasoline and bread –...