The Bishop's Blog

 Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility;...

Almighty God, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love whatever is just and true and good,...

Gracious Creator,  We give thanks not only for the food that sustains our bodies but for the beauty that nourishes our souls. We say grace before the play and the opera. For the stories that reveal...

Canon Luis Garibay has helped host 17 St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park community Thanksgiving dinners, organizing volunteers, cadging for donated turkeys, and mashing more than his share of potatoes....

We are so used to being importuned to count our blessings and avoid politics at Thanksgiving that we forget that the politicians forged our modern tradition in the fire of sin — slavery, and our...

Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered...

Planners jokingly put up a sign calling it a good riddance party with the words crossed out. But the light spirits could not fully obscure the sadness. St. Hilary's Episcopal Church in Hesperia was...

Preserve your people, O God, from discouragement in the face of adversity, as you did your servant James Huntington, knowing that when you have begun a good work you will bring it to completion....

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and...

Almighty God, you chose your servant Clement of Rome to recall the Church in Corinth to obedience and stability: Grant that your Church may be grounded and settled in your truth by the indwelling of...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bobby Kotick, famed business leader, philanthropist, devoted Episcopal schools board member and benefactor,...

O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give you thanks for Clive Staples Lewis, whose sanctified imagination lit fires of faith in young and old alike. Surprise us also with your joy and...