The Bishop's Blog
Thanksgiving Day at St. Paul’s Commons
God of all, we thank you for this opportunity to be together. Dios de todos, te damos gracias por esta oportunidad de estar juntos. We know you experience joy whenever your people share food and...
Daily prayer: Thanksgiving
Almighty and gracious God, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for...
Preparing for Thanksgiving in Echo Park
Thanksgiving dinner is served at 11 a.m. on Thursday at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, and all are welcome. Back in full swing after COVID, our traditional outreach to our Echo Park neighbors,...
Amazing people in Thanksgiving week
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bishop Brenda Bos of the Southwest California Synod ELCA, who brought brilliant colleagues to St. Paul's...
Daily prayer: For addicts and those in recovery
Blessed Lord, you ministered to all who came to you: Look with compassion upon all who through addiction have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of your unfailing mercy;...
Visiting St. Martin’s Church, Winnetka
The Rev. Gabri Ferrer said he’d be vicar of St. Martin in-the-Fields, Winnetka for just two years, at the invitation of the late Bishop Jon Bruno. As usual, the Holy Spirit had something else in...
Daily prayer: Holy Scriptures and Rosalynn Carter
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed...
Daily prayer: Saturday
Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly...
Annual Appeal for the end of the year
It's time for year-end gifts to the One Body & One Spirit Annual Appeal at the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, which has raised over $315,000 since Ash Wednesday 2022, with every dollar going...
Artificial cluelessness
It turns out AI is just like people. It has a hard time saying IDK. I found this out from asking the cloud a question about “Salt,” a 2010 thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber. Jolie...
Daily prayer: Hugh of Lincoln
Holy God, who endowed your servant Hugh of Lincoln with wise and cheerful boldness, and taught him to commend the discipline of holy life to kings and princes: Grant that we also, rejoicing in the...
Vaya con Dios to the Rev. Eduardo Bresciani Undurraga
On the Rev. Eduardo Bresciani Undurraga’s father’s side, ancestors fought for Italian unity with Giuseppe Garibaldi’s forces. On his mother’s side were heroes of Chilean independence. Such stories...