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In Beaumont, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s “Angels Among Us”-themed Christmas Tree Festival will mark the congregation’s tenth such community fund-raising event and highlight its yearlong centennial celebration. A Dec. 26 service, the feast day of St. Stephen, planned at about 5:30 p.m. will cap the church’s 100th birthday celebration with members returning to its roots, […]
According to Bishop Mary Glasspool and members of the Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Life, Kay Lindahl — author, activist, and diocesan lay leader — “was and is a star … clearly a leader in the interfaith movement.” They credit Lindahl, author of The Sacred Art of Listening, for inspiring them, first to attend […]
Bishop Jon Bruno joined County Supervisors Hilda Solis and Mark Ridley-Thomas and City Councilmember Curran Price in dedicating a new community clinic located near L.A. Trade-Tech College and named in honor of the Rev. Canon Warner Traynham, the retired longtime rector of St. John’s Church. The clinic’s March 5 opening in the Lorenzo housing complex […]
February 9, 1917 – October 15, 2014 Alice Virginia Shepard D’Amico, wife of the Rev. Canon Samuel D’Amico, retired rector of St. James’ Church, Los Angeles, died on Oct. 15 at her home in Lake Forest. She was 97 and had been in poor health for several years. Survivors include her husband of 68 years; […]
May 14, 1951 – October 9, 2015 Nancy Garni, longtime director of development at Hillsides, died Oct. 9 of cardiac arrest. She had been in remission after a two-year battle with leukemia that included a stem-cell transplant. She was 64. Survivors include her husband, Michael Seltzer; her daughter, Katherine Farina; and a sister, Judy Garni. […]
January 4, 1932 – September 5, 2015 Brother Derek of the Society of St. Francis, a friar at the St. Francis Friary at Church of the Epiphany, Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles), died Sept. 5. He was 83, and had received a diagnosis of terminal cancer only 10 days before his death. In addition to Brothers […]
Images of Aylan, a toddler who was drowned with his mother and brother as their family tried to escape violence in Syria, have brought the plight of refugees into painfully sharp focus in recent days. But Episcopal Relief & Development, an agency of the wider Episcopal Church, was already responding to the crisis by reaching […]
The 78th General Convention, held June 25 to July 3 in Salt Lake City, may seem a distant memory, but for the Very Rev. Michael Bamberger its effects are lasting. “The work has already begun,” he told The Episcopal News. He and another first-time L.A. deputy, the Very Rev. Melissa McCarthy, didn’t waste any time […]
The archbishops of the Anglican Church in Japan and Korea drew laughter when they described their initial mutual dislike for one another, for historical and personal reasons. Old hurts die hard, and it took faithfulness, forgiveness, dedication, patience and listening for the two — South Korean Archbishop Paul Keun Sang Kim and Nippon Sei Ko […]
Although a never-built freeway off-ramp presented a detour for further development of diocesan property in Rancho Cucamonga, all roads — happily — have led the mission congregation of St. Clare of Assisi home to its original sponsoring parish, St. Mark’s, Upland. The two congregations celebrated this homecoming with Sunday Eucharist on Aug. 16, with Bishop […]
February 19, 1919 – August 6, 2015 The Rev. Doran Woodrow Tregarthen, former assistant priest at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, San Juan Capistrano, died on August 6. He was 96. Survivors include his wife, Ethel (Ettie); son Timothy Tregarthen and daughters Janet Roddick (Dan) and Nancy Wild (Ed); grandchildren Tyler Roddick (Kasumi), Shannon Ford […]
December 27, 1939 – July 19, 2015 The Rev. Lawrence J. Steele, deacon of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died on July 19 in hospice care. He was 75. He most recently assisted at St. Stephen’s Church, Beaumont, and previously at St. Agnes’ Church, Banning. He was a police chaplain in Beumont, a volunteer prison […]
