The Bishop's Blog

Gracious God, we pray for the victims of the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, for their families and neighbors, and for everyone in the world for whom 2025 began in violence, fear, and...

Eternal God, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus...

Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the...

Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

I remember a lot of empty seats when I went to see Bob Dylan and his band perform in a theater in downtown San Diego in 1979. He’d just released the first of three albums of Christian songs, “Slow...

Though he retired as rector of St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Monterey Park in 2017, the Rev. Canon David Chee is usually in town for a service or two at Christmastime, by invitation of the...

We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the...

Shed upon your Church, O Lord, the brightness of your light, that we, being illumined by the teaching of your apostle and evangelist John, may so walk in the light of your truth, that at length we...

We give you thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to heaven and prayed for his persecutors to your Son Jesus Christ, who stands at your right hand;...

O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comes...

My scrapbook from Christmas Eve at St. John's Cathedral, where the interim dean and priest in charge, the Very Rev. Anne Sawyer, unveiled magnificent vestments chosen by her, the Rev. Margaret...