0 Items
(213) 482-2040

The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: To show your joy in our lives

Daily prayer: To show your joy in our lives

O Lord, you relieve our necessity out of the abundance of your great riches: Grant that we may accept with joy the salvation you bestow, and manifest it to all the world by the quality of our lives;...

Carta Pastoral Sobre la Práctica Eucarística

Carta Pastoral Sobre la Práctica Eucarística

A mis colegas en el liderazgo de misiones y parroquias: A manera que la Semana Santa y el Día de Resurrección se nos acercan, ustedes se encuentran en las oraciones de todos nosotros en Echo Park a...

A Pastoral Letter on Eucharistic Practice

A Pastoral Letter on Eucharistic Practice

To my colleagues in mission and parish leadership: With Holy Week and Easter Day coming up, you are in the prayers of all of us in Echo Park as you prepare to welcome the people of God. We know...

Daily prayer: Arm us with trust

Daily prayer: Arm us with trust

O God, you have called us to be your children, and have promised that those who suffer with Christ will be heirs with him of your glory: Arm us with such trust in him that we may ask no rest from...

Daily prayer: renew us in the gifts of your mercy

Daily prayer: renew us in the gifts of your mercy

Almighty God our heavenly Father, renew in us the gifts of your mercy; increase our faith, strengthen our hope, enlighten our understanding, widen our charity, and make us ready to serve you;...

Daily prayer: Look with compassion

Daily prayer: Look with compassion

Almighty God, through the incarnate Word you have caused us to be born anew of an imperishable and eternal seed: Look with compassion upon those who are being prepared for Holy Baptism, and grant...

St. Mark’s Village ribbon cutting

St. Mark’s Village ribbon cutting

My scrapbook from Friday’s ribbon-cutting for St. Mark’s Village, the temporary home of the Saint Mark's School elementary school, which lost most of its Altadena buildings, but none of its spirit,...

Daily prayer: Spare those who confess

Daily prayer: Spare those who confess

Mercifully hear our prayers, O Lord, and spare all those who confess their sins to you; that those whose consciences are accused by sin may by your merciful pardon be absolved; through Jesus Christ...

Speaking at Arcadia High School

Speaking at Arcadia High School

“What do you see? What does it mean?” History instructor Heather Moore poses these questions over and over to her students at Arcadia High School. So for the second time in three years, invited to...

Daily prayer: Fill our hearts with thankfulness

Daily prayer: Fill our hearts with thankfulness

O God, you have given us the Good News of your abounding love in your Son Jesus Christ: So fill our hearts with thankfulness that we may rejoice to proclaim the good tidings we have received;...