The Bishop's Blog

Grant, we pray, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with awe the Paschal feast may be found worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the...

My scrapbook from today’s Easter Day celebration at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles, where I was celebrant and preacher, and the Easter bunny was able to move the egg hunt outdoors in the blink...

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection,...

Preventing fake news was the goal of religious officials who went to Pilate the day after Jesus’s burial. They warned him that the imposter’s followers might steal his body and claim he’d risen from...

Good Friday should turn Christians into careful students of all the ways modern states use power against the vulnerable. While it grieves me to say it, because Israel is a great country with a great...

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross;...

This is my Maundy Thursday story. Kathy and I returned from our Holy Wednesday evening dinner at Denny’s to find about a dozen police cars in front of our home, your episcopal residence, on...

Almighty God, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our...

To all the people of the Diocese of Los Angeles, greetings in Christ this Holy Week and Easter Day! The depiction of our Lord in the photo was my gift from Monica Gonzalez-Gutierrez, a member of La...

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that...

My scrapbook from today's chrism mass (where we blessed a year's supply of holy oil for our missions and parishes) and renewal of ordinations vows by us priests, deacons, and bishops in the...

Almighty God, giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders of ministers in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly pray, to all who are called to any office...