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Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the central Philippines on the morning of Nov. 8, causing widespread damage, killing and displacing thousands of people and knocking out power and communications lines. Roads are clogged with debris, and the airport in the devastated area was destroyed; as a result, getting aid to people who need it is […]
Welcome into this place,” harmonized 40-some voices Oct. 13 as the Los Angeles Episcopal Chorale Society Inc. sang a greeting to guests arriving at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel to celebrate their 30th year of making music to lift spirits, revive souls, warm hearts, deepen faith and strengthen lives. None of which would have happened, by […]
Nevada Bishop Dan Edwards says he wrote God of Our Silent Tears for three groups of people: those in the pew struggling with questions of suffering and evil; for pastors attempting to respond to those who struggle and for those in both local and seminary formation for ministry. A decade long in the writing, the […]
While convening regional public safety forums throughout the diocese, Bishop Jon Bruno called upon Southland Episcopalians to learn about and to prevent violence by becoming catalysts for change. “We as human beings can change the world,” Bruno told the 200 Episcopalians who attended the gatherings, which featured as guest speakers, legislators, law enforcement and public […]
Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno offered a message of love, reconciliation and hope to a full house of worshippers at an Oct. 6 welcome-back celebration of St. James the Great Episcopal Church in Newport Beach. He also challenged worshippers — about 280 people from across the diocesan community who gathered for the joyous service — […]
They’ve come from Canterbury and reached their destination: a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains, where visitors on the first Sunday of autumn marveled at panoramic views from downtown Los Angeles to Catalina Island. “These six pilgrims have gone a very long way in old age,” noted Canterbury Cathedral Dean Robert Willis, speaking Sept. 22 […]
Sandra “Sandee” Rosas played in Echo Park as a child, but never dreamed that she’d one day return to the neighborhood to serve as manager of the Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union (ECFCU). She has had more than 24 years’ experience in the financial industry — 22 of it serving in credit unions — but […]
It just might have been the power of the three women bishops on the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium field Aug. 30 that helped propel the home team to a 9-2 win over the San Diego Padres. Tossing out the first pitch to mark the annual Episcopal Night at Dodger Stadium was Bishop Griselda Delgado Del […]
August 28, 1924 – September 12, 2013 The Rev. Canon Cyprian William Fields, whose priesthood included ministries in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York, New Jersey and New Orleans, died on Sept. 12. He was 89. Requiem Eucharist is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29, at St. Philip’s Church, 2800 Stanford Avenue, Los […]
It takes a village to curb violence, according to Bishop Jon Bruno and others at the first in a series of diocesan regional public safety forums, held August 10 at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Church in Santa Monica. The bishop’s newest “Hands in Healing” initiative drew 75 people from congregations across the greater Los Angeles area […]
(Santa Ana, Calif., Aug. 5, 2013) – Judgment returning property occupied by St. James’ Church, Newport Beach, to the Diocese of Los Angeles for its current and future ministry and that of the wider Episcopal Church has been entered by Orange County Superior Court Judge Kim G. Dunning. A link to the judgment, signed on […]
October 10, 1923 – July 11, 2013 The Rev. Daniel Williamson, former vicar at St. John’s Church, La Verne, died of what was believed to be a heart attack on July 11, 2013. He was 69, and was serving as priest in charge of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Auburn, a parish in the Diocese […]
