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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

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 –...

The Bishop’s Blog: A prayer for Ukraine 3-11-22

The Bishop’s Blog: A prayer for Ukraine 3-11-22

God of justice and truth, you grieved our scapegoating of our Japanese American neighbors during World War II and our neighbors of Chinese background during the pandemic. Ukraine is the victim of...