The Bishop's Blog
A baptism on Pentecost
So imagine Kathy’s joy and mine on the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit indeed came down, enabling me to mediate the sacrament of Holy Baptism for our grandson Silas Harvey Passarella, son of...
Class of 2025 at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School
What makes the St. Margaret's Episcopal School class of 2025 special? Just ask head of school Jeneen Graham. Most arrived on campus the second year of COVID, she said, so they have the bond of...
Daily prayer: Columba of Iona
O God, who by the preaching of your servant Columba caused the light of the Gospel to shine in Scotland: Grant, we pray, that, remembering his life and labors, we may follow the example of his zeal...
One Body & One Spirit Appeal at Pentecost
The Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy and I join in thanks to supporters of the One Body & One Spirit Appeal in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: "Many cultures have inherited the tradition of the...
Historical perspective on sacred resistance
Posted early on Sunday by law professor Jeff Baker, a chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: Some history: The major "riots" in Los Angeles - Watts, the Rodney King uprising in 1992 -...
Daily prayer: Pentecost
Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the...
Prayers for peaceful resistance
We gather to pray for peace with justice. We pray for an end to the unjust use of state power against the people of God, especially immigrant workers seized from their places of honest work in our...
Sacred resistance
I join Mayor Karen Bass and Episcopal Sacred Resistance - Los Angeles in condemning Friday’s ICE raids at workplaces in downtown Los Angeles and elsewhere in southern California. Affecting members...
Daily prayer: For compassion on immigrant workers
God of compassion and justice, give the people of the United States a better understanding of the plight of the immigrant worker. Inspire us to demand that our leaders undertake the long-overdue...
Daily prayer: The way of the cross
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...
Daily prayer: St. Boniface
Pour out your Holy Spirit, O God, upon your church in every land, that like your servant Boniface we might proclaim the Gospel to all nations, that your kingdom might be enlarged and that your holy...
Daily prayer: Martyrs of Uganda
O God, by whose providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church: Grant that we who remember before you the blessed martyrs of Uganda, may, like them, be steadfast in our faith in Jesus...