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He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of […]
With apologies to Karl Barth, Anglicans and Episcopalians go out into the world with the gospel in one hand and a history book (or a phone for checking Wikipedia) in the other. For the Church of England, it was, of course, the British Reformation; for The Episcopal Church, the American Revolution. For the Diocese of […]
[The Episcopal News] Editor’s note: The tournament has been postponed to October 14, 2024 at the same location. More information to come. The Diocese of Los Angeles’ second annual Shepherd’s Cup Golf Classic and Dinner will be held on Monday, Oct. 14 (postponed from April 28) at the Industry Hills Golf Club and Pacific Palms […]
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. Luke 7:14 When I was in elementary school, there was a young woman who lived in my apartment building who suffered from mental illness. On her daily walks, she always had a […]
A year or two ago, walking on Rosemead Blvd. near our home in east Pasadena, I came across a man lying on the sidewalk and behaving badly. Rushing past, I stopped a half-block along, knowing I had to do something. I feared someone else, perhaps a child, would come around the corner and see. I […]
[The Episcopal News] With the rat-a-tat-tat crackle of drums, dragon dancers pranced in procession at a joyous Feb. 11 Eucharist celebrating the 80th anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, the first woman ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion, and the Lunar New Year of the Dragon. “Li Tim-Oi called her […]
A gallery of photos from the celebration of Lunar New Year, the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Li Tim-Oi, first woman priest in the Anglican Communion, and women’s ministry in The Episcopal Church. The celebration was held at Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel, site of the Li Tim Oi Center for Chinese ministries, […]
[The Episcopal News] As each name was called – Absalom Jones, Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman – a libation, a drop of water, was poured, signifying an ancestor acclaimed, a spirit welcomed, a trailblazer applauded in an ancient ritual performed at the Feb. 10 annual […]
[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened the Feb. 8 online meeting of Diocesan Council with a tribute to the Rev. Norman Reid Freeman Jr., a renowned musician and former rector of St. George’s Church in Laguna Hills, who died Feb. 4. Freeman, “was a brilliant musician and vibraphonist, who travelled the world as […]
[The Episcopal News] Marty E. Coleman, whose ministries in peace and justice spanned four decades at Pasadena’s All Saints Church and beyond – died Jan. 29. She was 92 and had lived in recent years at Westminster Gardens in Duarte. Survivors include her daughters, Laurie Edwards Back and Kim Edwards Johnson; six grandchildren and two […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Norman Reid Freeman Jr., a Juilliard-trained, Grammy Award-winning percussionist and timpanist who performed with the New York Pops and New York Philharmonic and with artists ranging from Barbra Streisand to Metallica and Pavarotti, and who popularized jazz vespers while serving congregations in the Connecticut and Los Angeles dioceses, died Feb. […]
April 26, 1938 – January 27, 2024 Canon Thomas Charles Foster, 85, former organist and music director at All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills, teacher, composer, member of the diocesan Commission on Liturgy & Church Music and director of music for diocesan and churchwide events, died Jan. 27 in Plano, Texas. Foster served most recently at […]
