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As reports come in about ICE raids around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, I write to remind my siblings in Christ that, by act of diocesan convention in December 2016, we are a sanctuary diocese. “Sanctuary” is generally but not exclusively understood as sheltering immigrant workers and their families in churches. I’m not aware […]
The congregation of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church – Altadena — among whose members 40 homes were lost in the wildfire that also burned their church and school buildings — gathered Jan. 19 for their first Sunday-morning service at St. Barnabas Eagle Rock, where church leaders have welcomed the Altadena parish to use the sanctuary weekly […]
Canon Iyad Qumri – well known to many across the Episcopal Church for leading pilgrimages in and around Jerusalem – will visit the Diocese of Los Angeles March 8-13 and join a March 9 Sunday-afternoon panel discussion on Christians living in Israel and Palestine, followed by dinner. All are invited. “Iyad’s many friends and cousins […]
Application form online here; donation link here; impacted parishes also offer donation portals The first round of fire-relief grants totaling $19,000 were approved Jan. 21 and disbursed through the diocesan One Body & One Spirit Appeal fund, drawing from $322,931 raised in 777 gifts to date. A concise application form is here. Six more applications totaling $15,000 will […]
Jan. 21, 1935 – Dec. 23, 2024 Jerry Todd Campbell – liturgical artist and museum exhibit designer – died at his Los Angeles home on Dec. 23. He was a longtime member of the Church of the Angels in Pasadena. A burial service with Holy Eucharist will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. […]
God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.’ Gen. 1:26a When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Isaiah 43:2 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but […]
Application form online here; donation link here; impacted parishes also offer donation portals Individuals and institutions hard hit by current wildfires may now request grants of up to $3,000 each from the diocesan One Body & One Spirit Appeal fund, drawing from more than $160,000 raised to date. A concise application form is here. Encouraging […]
St. Matthew’s Episcopal School is “making excellent progress” in securing alternate space for classes after buildings were destroyed in the Palisades fire, school leaders say, and a school chapel is planned for the morning of Jan. 16 at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica. The Santa Monica congregation — whose own church was built […]
As San Gabriel Valley Episcopal congregations continue to unite in Eaton fire relief efforts, parishioners of St. Mark’s, Altadena – where some 30 parish families have lost their homes in addition to their church and school buildings – will begin holding Sunday-morning services at nearby St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church, Eagle Rock, on Jan. 19. Rector […]
At a time “when we need a lot of priests,” Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor ordained four new ones Jan. 11 at St. John’s Cathedral before a cheering congregation, including many who had lost homes and their church in recent Southern California fires. “We, each of us, are in the midst of an Isaiah […]
The two Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles parishes hit hardest by the wildfires, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Altadena and The Parish of St. Matthew in Pacific Palisades, have something in common besides loss and grief. Each hosts a highly respected Episcopal school, which means four institutions instead of two will be recovering, taking stock, […]
The Diocese of Los Angeles is launching of a “Requiem or Renaissance” program for congregations in the Diocese, based on the original program of the same name from the Diocese of Missouri, designed to help churches discern their calling in times of decline or changing circumstances. A three-day planning meeting began Jan. 6 at St. […]
