The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: Direct us to fulfill your will
Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully increase in us your gifts of holy discipline, in almsgiving, prayer, and fasting; that our lives may be directed to the fulfilling of your most gracious...
Daily prayer: Help us through temptation
Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each...
Daily prayer: For mercy and help
Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth your right hand to help and defend us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who...
Daily prayer: Support us in our fasts
Support us, O Lord, with your gracious favor through the fast we have begun; that as we observe it by bodily self-denial, so we may fulfill it with inner sincerity of heart; through Jesus Christ our...
Amazing people
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Ron Chatman, longtime senior warden of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Compton, after our latest lunch at...
Daily prayer: Direct us, Lord
Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name,...
Daily prayer: May we obtain forgiveness
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and...
Shriving on Shrove Tuesday
If I shrive you, I hear your testimony, or your confession, and I offer understanding, or forgiveness. AI may try to tell you to shrive means to confess. It’s actually the other way around. It means...
Marshall Rutter
It was all about the music on Sunday, when the family and friends of Marshall Rutter sang adieu at his and his spouse, Terry Knowles’, beloved All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. Marshall was...
Daily prayer: Let the world see
O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan...
Visiting the Church of the Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is a story about the sudden awareness of the presence of God. Jesus took Peter, James, and John to the top of a mountain in Galilee and began to pray. Divine light shone from his...
Daily prayer: For strength to bear our crosses
O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear...