The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: For surefooted service to God
Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through...
Asiamerica Ministries’ Filipino convocation scrapbook
My scrapbook from this afternoon’s session of Asiamerica Ministries’ Filipino convocation gathering at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, organized by the Rev. Brent Jr Quines, rector of Holy Trinity...
Amazing People at the start of November
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, invested today as presiding bishop, who was in town Tuesday for a bishops’ listening...
Daily prayer: For the faithful departed
O God, the Maker and Redeemer of all believers: Grant to the faithful departed the unsearchable benefits of the passion of your Son; that on the day of his appearing they may be manifested as your...
Daily prayer: For Godly living
Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and...
Help Bloy House this Halloween
What's really scary this Halloween in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is imagining our community without the affordable means of local practical and theological training for our thousands of...
Daily prayer: All Hallows Eve
Lord, tonight, we will face all that most concerns us: our fears, the shadowed places of the mind; the coming of winter darkness; the cold thin place between waking and sleep. We call to mind the...
Visiting St. Paul’s, Lancaster
When the people of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster first gathered for prayer a hundred years ago in the offices of a local newspaper publisher, scientists still believed our galaxy...
Daily prayer: For righteousness and love
Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be...
Daily prayer: For love, worship, and service of God
O God, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace;...
Preaching at St. Alban’s, Westwood
When the Rev. Adam Dawkins, rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Westwood, was in middle school in Greenville, South Carolina, his parents, Ernie and Faye, decided to move the family across...
Daily prayer: Simon and Jude
O God, we thank you for the glorious company of the apostles, and especially on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful and zealous in their mission, so we may with...