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Greg Kimura is excitedly pointing out “Hello Kitty” backpacks, toothbrushes, fanny packs, artwork, a Swarovski crystal Hello Kitty, a Sesame Street Elmo Hello Kitty, images of the twinkling-eyed character depicted in dresses for Lady Gaga and America’s Top Model Competition — even a Hello Kitty robot. “If you speak to it in Japanese, it’ll say […]
The Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel at Holy Trinity Church in Covina is a center of bustling activity as Dia de los Muertos fast approaches. Molds for the traditional sugar skulls and their accessories — feathers, sequins, bright foil, colored sugars — are stacking up, and the Rev. Steve DeMuth is collecting candles, photos and […]
March 25, 1927 – October 13, 2014 The Rev. Canon George William Cummings, former secretary of convention, executive director of The Episcopal Home (The Kensington) and rector of The Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel, died Oct. 13. He was 87. Survivors include his four children, Karen, Richard, Jeffrey and Kalaine; 12 grandchildren and several […]
d. October 5, 2014 Gene Wekall, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles who brought centering meditation practice to prison inmates, died Oct. 5. Survivors include Wekall’s second wife, the Rev. Ellen Murasaki-Wekall, priest-in-charge at St. Francis’ Chapel, Los Angeles; five children of his first marriage – sons Mike, Tim and Steve Wekall, […]
October 18, 1939 – September 27, 2014 The Rev. Nicholas Radelmiller, OHC, died at Sarah House Hospice in Santa Barbara on Sept. 27. He was 74. Nick was prior of Mount Calvary Monastery in Santa Barbara from 2008 until June of this year. He led the community during the years following the November 2008 Tea […]
July 24, 1941 – September 25, 2014 Canon Marie Dolores Gaines Conyer of St. Mark’s Church, Upland — former Standing Committee member, ECW leader, Union of Black Episcopalians board member, Daughters of the King member and advocate for families of murdered children — died Sept. 25 of cancer. She was 73. She died, coincidentally, on […]
When members of All Saints Church in Pasadena received a report of a gunman on campus one Sunday a few months ago, they quickly sprang into action. “We were in between services and we had a report that a man had entered the church. There was a report he had a gun. We evacuated the […]
Since St. Paul’s Church in Tustin started Sunday Supper to feed the hungry, it’s been like “loaves and fishes,” multiplying all the way, according to the Rev. Kay Sylvester, rector. “One of the most basic ways to serve Christ in all people is to feed them,” she said. “After, all, it’s what Jesus did.” In […]
The Diocese of Los Angeles is “ready and waiting” to aid unaccompanied children fleeing Central American violence by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Diocesan Bishop J. Jon Bruno. But, he added, there are no quick fixes. “We need to look at the long term for the young people who have arrived in Southern California […]
When asked to reflect about being the first woman ordained a priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles, the Rev. Canon Victoria Hatch has said it before and she says it again, with feeling: “It’s been a wild ride, but it’s been full of grace.” Such moments of grace included attending the 1974 ordinations of […]
The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno has created the Bishop’s Chair for Environmental Science & Food Justice and named the Rev. Andrew K. Barnett to the new post at Campbell Hall Episcopal in North Hollywood, California. “Our children and youth need to be equipped with skills rooted in science and ethics to address the serious […]
July 23, 1950 – July 14, 2014 Robert Lee Johnson, Jr., longtime lay leader at St. John’s ProCathedral, Los Angeles, vice-president of the Corporation of the Diocese and honorary canon of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, died July 14. He was 63. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July […]
