The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: For your never-failing care
Almighty God, we entrust all who are dear to us to your never-failing care and love, for this life and the life to come, knowing that you are doing for them better things than we can desire or pray...
Speaking at the Guibord Center
The Guibord Center asked me to speak about spirituality in times like ours. I discussed being mindful about my incoming, my outgoing, and my indwelling. My thanks to president and CEO Lo Sprague for...
Daily prayer: Catherine of Siena
Almighty and everlasting God, who kindled the flame of your love in the heart of your servant Catherine of Siena: Grant unto us the same strength of conviction and power of love that, as we rejoice...
Nonviolent resistance training
The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton’s first civil disobedience arrest was in November 1987. As a UC Santa Barbara undergraduate, he was protesting the university inviting a CIA agent to be a guest...
Preaching at Church the Angels, Pasadena
The Rev. Robert Gaestel arrived at beautiful Church of the Angels in Pasadena in 1983, the year President Reagan invaded Grenada and Michael Jackson released his album “Thriller.” He retires on...
Daily prayer: To be grounded in the truth of the gospel
Almighty God, by the hand of Mark the evangelist you have given to your Church the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God: We thank you for this witness, and pray that we may be firmly grounded in...
The Rev. Canon Richard Estrada Celebration of Life
The Rev. Canon Richard Estrada died in March after scores of years of brilliant and brilliantly effective witness for the love of the Risen Christ. Founder of Jovenes, Inc., a nonprofit serving...
Daily prayer: The call to life
We thank you, Almighty God, that you have delivered us from the dominion of sin and death and brought us into the kingdom of your Son; and we pray that, as by his death he has recalled us to life,...
Mass for His Holiness, Pope Francis
My album from Friday's noon mass for His Holiness, Pope Francis at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where Archbishop José H. Gomez was celebrant and preacher. Canons Kathy Hannigan O'Connor...
Daily prayer: To serve always in pure truth
Almighty God, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise for our justification: Give us grace so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve you in pureness...
Daily prayer: To show in life what we profess
Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in...
Daily prayer: Open the eyes of our faith
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in...