The Bishop's Blog
Christ Church & St. Andrew’s: Episcopal Parishes Walking Together
For the last six years, two Episcopal parishes in the South Bay have been walking together — Christ Church in Redondo Beach and St. Andrew’s in Torrance. (Find them together and living on Facebook...
The Rev. Antonio Gallardo at St. Luke’s, Long Beach
When the Rev. Dr. Antonio Gallardo was 25, he left his native Venezuela to study and work in Japan, whose government had identified him as an incipient global business leader. It turned out to be...
Daily prayer: 16th Sunday after Pentecost
O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly...
Amazing people in late September
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Dolores DeAngelis of St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, Echo Park, telling our monthly St. Paul's Commons, Echo...
Los Angeles faith leaders and the Clinton Foundation
President Bill Clinton’s voice was heard welcoming guests Thursday afternoon at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park — on video, of course. It was the kickoff of the Clinton Foundation’s eight-month summit...
Daily prayer: Jerome
O God, who gave us the holy Scriptures as a light to shine upon our path: Grant us, after the example of your servant Jerome, so to learn of you according to your holy Word, that we may find the...
Daily prayer: Morning prayer
O God, the eternal sovereign, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...
Daily prayer: For families
Merciful God, who looks not with outward eyes but discerns the heart of each: we confess that those whom we love the most are often strangers to us. Give to all parents and children, we pray, the...
Daily prayer: Lancelot Andrewes
Perfect in us, Almighty God, whatever is lacking of your gifts: of faith, to increase it; of hope, to establish it; of love, to kindle it; that like your servant Lancelot Andrewes we may live in the...
Daily prayer: For quiet confidence
O God of peace, who has taught us that in returning and rest we will be saved, in quietness and confidence will be our strength: By the might of your Spirit lift us, we pray, to your presence, where...
Music at St. Be’s Harmony Room
On a perfect early autumn Saturday evening, the coolest place in town was St Barnabas' Episcopal Church of Eagle Rock, or so testified a delighted crowd of 30 gathered in the nave. Because famed...
Prayers for Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
To our God in Christ be the glory as we give thanks for this report, just in from The Episcopal Church: "Following a surgery last week to remove an adrenal gland and attached mass, Presiding Bishop...