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The Rev. Canon Dr. George F. Regas – whose bold leadership advanced civil rights, women’s ordination, LGBTQ marriage equality, and reversing the arms race – died Jan. 3 in Pasadena, Calif., where he was rector of All Saints Episcopal Church from 1967 to 1995. He was 90. Mary, his wife of nearly 44 years, and […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor and Bishop Suffragan Diane M. Jardine Bruce will offer special online services in coming days to celebrate Christmastide. On Christmas Day, Bishop Bruce and Canon Stephen Bruce invite the diocesan community to join them for “Christmas Around the Creche,” an online multilingual celebration of the Nativity featuring readers and musicians from […]
“Spanish Influenza – Pneumonia.” Handwritten as the cause of death on Oct. 19, 1918 of 29-year-old George Rasmussen in Los Angeles amid an emerging global pandemic, this entry is recorded in the register of Hollywood’s St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church, then an active mission congregation bound for parish status in 1920-21. A few lines […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor closed out the final Diocesan Council meeting of 2020 with praise and thanksgiving for Southland congregations’ safe and reverent return to in-person worship, for upcoming “joyful, happy, colorful” Christmas celebrations, and anticipating engaging ministry next year. The most recent Covid-19 challenges prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Dec. 6 stay at home […]
The Rev. Tom Carey, vicar of Church of the Epiphany, Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles), since 2010, will serve as dean of Deanery IV beginning Jan. 1, according to Bishop John Harvey Taylor. Carey succeeds the Very Rev. Canon Roberto Martinez & the Very Rev. Fernando Valdes, former co-deans, who recently transitioned to new congregations. Carey, […]
Worshipping this Christmas may be with masks and in parking lots or online via Zoom and Facebook, but clergy and leaders of Southland congregations say “Silent Night” will still be heard, the Virgen de Guadalupe will still be venerated, and Jesus will still be present — in the creche and in spirit. From Santa Ana […]
When Covid-19 hit, Karen Daisa moved her weekly 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in-person yoga ministry for St. Patrick’s Thousand Oaks parishioners onto Facebook. Now, as the pandemic stretches on, she wants to gift it to the entire diocesan community. “There’s so much stress right now and a lot of us are in chronic fight or flight […]
Alyssa Voboril remembers her first conversation about race. The Madison, Wisconsin, native was 23, serving an Episcopal urban intern year in Los Angeles when she and other interns participated in a group activity led by her mentor, Canon Suzanne Edwards-Acton. “I remember it like it was yesterday,” Voboril, 31, told The Episcopal News recently. “The […]
October 1, 1954 – December 3, 2020 The Rev. Vincent Shamo, rector of St. Mary’s in Palms Church, Los Angeles, since 2005, died Dec. 3 after a long struggle with stomach cancer. He was 66. Survivors include his wife, Florence K. Shamo; their children, Patience Barnie, Vincent Agoe and Obed Agoe; and a grandson, Ezra […]
The Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu is very much her father’s daughter, yet from an early age was determined to chart her own course. The third child of 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu, she bears a striking resemblance to her father but has emerged from his shadow as an activist, […]
CPE — clinical pastoral education — was once designed to hone pastoral care skills for clergy-hopefuls only, but an exciting new program in the Los Angeles diocese aims to offer the training to laypersons also. The program, called CPE for Laity, is the vision of the Rev. Jana Milhon-Martin, CPE supervisor at Good Samaritan Hospital, […]
The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart — Episcopal priest, former police officer and author of 2020’s Preaching Black Lives (Matter) — will keynote the Diocese of Los Angeles’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, to be held online at 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021. “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” is […]
