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[The Episcopal News] Sylvia-Rose Pretorius Mackenzie – widow of the late Bishop Edward Mackenzie, mother of the Rev. Vanessa Mackenzie of L.A.’s Church of the Advent, and grandmother of the Rev. Lester Mackenzie, rector of St. Mary’s, Laguna Beach – died Sept. 3 in her native South Africa at age 92. A former church organist, […]
[The Episcopal News] Canon John M. Hitchcock, 83, a dedicated advocate for children and the former executive director of Hillsides, a family service center and diocesan institution in Pasadena, died peacefully on Oct. 2 with Ida M. Hitchcock, his wife of 57 years, at his side. Survivors also include their sons J. David (Kristin) Hitchcock […]
[The Episcopal News] Amid suffering and tensions escalated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, support for charitable projects in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem is doubly appreciated. Concrete initiatives include replacement of the 57-year-old furnace at Ramallah’s Arab Evangelical-Episcopal Home and School. Donors are invited to join Bishop John Harvey Taylor and others […]
June 14, 1936 – October 5, 2023 The Rev. John Richard Phalen, priest of the diocese of Los Angeles, died Oct. 5. He was 87. Phalen was an interim priest at several congregations of the diocese, and in recent years has often served at St. Gabriel’s Church, Monterey Park, founded in 1983 as a ministry […]
[The Episcopal News] “Love in Action: For Healing, Housing & Hope” will be the theme for the 128th meeting of Diocesan Convention, a two-day hybrid event on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10 and 11, at the Riverside Convention Center, 3637 5th Street, Riverside. Clergy and lay delegates are encouraged to attend in person, but may […]
[The Episcopal News] Focusing on the nexus of philanthropy and social and racial justice, California Endowment President/CEO Robert Ross – a physician and parishioner of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Altadena – will deliver Diocesan Convention’s eighth biennial Margaret Parker Lecture, slated for 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11, at Diocesan Convention in Riverside. A […]
[The Episcopal News] “Holy God, weaver of life, hallowed be your Earth,” begins the Lord’s Prayer as reimagined by Dustin Vuong Nguyen, an Episcopal Church Ecojustice Fellow and a leader of The Gathering: A Space for Asian Pacific American Spirituality in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Drawing upon his Asian spiritual roots, Nguyen will weave […]
[The Episcopal News] In this technological age, the world needs electricians, and St. Stephen’s Church, Hollywood, invites young women interested in acquiring those skills to a special training program beginning Oct. 14 and continuing monthly for two years. The St. Stephen’s Firefly Program, funded by a grant from the Los Angeles Girls Friendly Society, will […]
[The Episcopal News] Moving from fossil fuel to electric energy is crucial for reducing carbon emissions to save the planet and can begin by simply switching appliances, Dr. Lucy Jones told attendees Sept. 16 at the first diocesan Climate Change Summit. “Buy electric, instead of gas,” advised Jones, a member of the Los Angeles Bishop’s […]
[The Episcopal News] Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened the Sept. 14, meeting of Diocesan Council with prayer amid “the heartbreaking losses” of both vice-chancellor Canon Julie Dean Larsen and the Rev. Canon Ginny Erwin, a former rector of Trinity Church in Orange, who died earlier in the week. Larsen, a member of St. […]
[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor installed Jayme L. Johnson, Ed.D., as new head of school at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Thousand Oaks on Sept. 16. In his homily, Taylor joked, “St. Patrick’s messed with Texas and called Jayme out of St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas.” Held in St. Patrick’s Church, […]
[The Episcopal News] When the Rev. Tom Quijada-Discavage isn’t shepherding congregations through transitions, he is leading another flock as priest-in-charge at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. Or he’s helping to plan the annual conference for the clergy of the diocese. Or working with clergy who are hoping to come to the Los Angeles […]
