The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: for Norma and Michael
Jan 19, 2024
Gracious and loving God, who holds close all you have made, we offer prayers of thanksgiving this morning that Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry is resting at home after a successful procedure...
Daily prayer: Simon Peter
Jan 18, 2024
Almighty God, who inspired Simon Peter, first among the apostles, to confess Jesus as Messiah and Son of the living God: Keep your Church steadfast upon the rock of this faith, so that in unity and...
Daily prayer: Anthony the Great
Jan 17, 2024
O God, as you by your Holy Spirit enabled your servant Anthony to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; so give us grace to follow you with pure hearts and minds, through...
Daily prayer: For guidance
Jan 16, 2024
O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us to do, that the...
Amazing people in mid-January
Jan 15, 2024
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Kathy Hannigan O'Connor's and my friends from our days at St John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita,...
Daily prayer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 15, 2024
Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may...
Civic faith, gospel faith, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jan 15, 2024
A few days before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a sermon at Washington National Cathedral that he called “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Fresh, urgent,...
Martin Luther King celebration
Jan 15, 2024
My scrapbook from the festive two-hour-plus Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles service Sunday afternoon and evening commemorating the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Christ...
Daily prayer: Light of the world
Jan 14, 2024
Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ's glory, that he may...
Daily prayer: Ordination of three priests
Jan 13, 2024
Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of your divine providence has appointed various orders in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly beseech you, to the Revs. Mel Soriano, Jonathan...
Daily prayer: Aelred of Rivaulx
Jan 12, 2024
Grant to your people, Almighty God, a spirit of mutual affection; that, following the example of your servant Aelred of Rivaulx, we might know the love of Christ in loving one another; through the...
Daily prayer: For the poor and neglected
Jan 11, 2024
Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick, and all who have...