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[The Episcopal News] It is critical for congregations to maintain – and to catch up with – their Mission Share Fund contributions to avoid an overall diocesan year-end shortfall, Treasurer Canon Andy Tomat reported at the Dec. 14 regular monthly meeting of Diocesan Council. “MSF receipts were back to budgeted levels of $370,000 per month […]
[The Episcopal News] For the Rev. Canon Judy Heffron, retired rector of Holy Trinity Church, Covina, grainy 8-millimeter home video footage documenting the “irregular” ordinations of eleven women at the Episcopal Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia nearly 50 years ago, unleashed a flood of emotional memories. “It was very powerful,” Heffron told The Episcopal […]
Christmas 2023 My siblings in in Christ: May you and yours have a blessed Christmas and New Year. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge scenes of his childhood. The movie versions we love capture the sights but usually not the smells. “He was conscious of a thousand odors […]
[The Episcopal News] Christmas can’t come fast enough for young brothers Jimmy, 7, and 5-year-old Mark. The family tree’s been decorated, they’ve visited Santa at a local park, and now and again St. Nick randomly drops off a note or gift for each of them, says their foster mom, Rebecca Bardales. “They’re getting more and […]
[The Episcopal News] Two Dec. 15 receptions and an online gallery and catalog will feature some 50 canvases that the Rev. Canon Warner R. Traynham – a retired rector of St. John’s, Los Angeles – has painted and donated for sale to benefit the diocesan One Body & One Spirit Annual Appeal. All are invited […]
[The Episcopal News] Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded a one-year $85,000 grant to Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles, to develop leadership engagement across political and ideological differences. The growing political divide in the nation and even among some churches and their members, inspired the Very Rev. Gary Hall, Bloy House […]
[The Episcopal News] Congregations across the Diocese of Los Angeles are invited to rally around the Jan. 23 release of “A Case for Love” – a feature-film documentary inspired by the teachings of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and produced by Grace-Based Films, a company formed by parishioners of All Saints Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills. The […]
[The Episcopal News] In 1944, with the world at war, Bishop Ronald Hall of Hong Kong, desperately needing Church of England sacraments to be administered in Macau, ordained Li Florence Tim-Oi, a deaconess, as the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion. The Li Tim-Oi Center and Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel, will mark […]
[The Episcopal News] Archbishop Hosam E. Naoum of the Diocese of Jerusalem, with which the Diocese of Los Angeles has a longstanding companion relationship, recently issued a pastoral letter and an Advent calendar of daily reflections and prayers, and included a plea for contributions to the diocese for Christmastide relief efforts. Citing the 13th chapter […]
July 30, 1946 – November 28, 2023 The Rev. Canon Peter D. Haynes, 77, former rector of St. Michael & All Angels, Corona del Mar, and dean of Deanery 10, died Nov. 28 after an extended illness. Survivors include his wife, Frances B. Bolles Haynes, and their son, Don. Bishop John Harvey Taylor will officiate […]
[The Episcopal News] Johnny Lee says the best part of serving as a teller, a loan officer, accounting manager, vice president of Cal-Com Credit Union throughout his career, and now, as chief executive officer of the Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union, is helping people. “Our credit union remains committed to the fundamental principle of ‘people […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Lester Mackenzie, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Laguna Beach, is among 21 delegates representing the office of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at the upcoming 2023 United Nations climate change conference. It is the ninth year the presiding bishop has convened Episcopalians in the urgent work of climate change advocacy in […]
