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About the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
Bishop Jon Bruno and the diocesan World Mission Group present
this prayer cycle to enrich common worship and private devotions in the
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles during the year.
Listings in this cycle are entered under these headings:
Congregations: Each parish and mission in the six-county Diocese of
Los Angeles is listed according to its patronal festival or “name day” and
the year it was incorporated.
Institutions, Organizations, Agencies and Schools: Each entity is
listed by the date of its founding.
Clergy: Each bishop, priest and deacon residing within the diocese is
listed by the date of his or her ordination.
Clergy Widows/Widowers: Each person is listed on the date of his or
her spouse’s death.
World Mission Companions: Also remembered on significant dates are
people of two particular Anglican regions—the Diocese of El Salvador—with
which the Diocese of Los Angeles joined in Companion Relationship by vote
of its Diocesan Convention in 2003
(and renewed through June 30, 2009) and the Diocese of Jerusalem, with which Los Angeles joined
in a Companion Relationship by vote of its Diocesan Convention in 2005. The
Diocese of Los Angeles maintains a Friendship Relationship with the Diocese
of Belize.
An asterisk (*) at the beginning of an entry denotes a movable or
deferred feast day. Note:
Please Click Here for a guide to moveable feasts and other observances
within the diocese.
Days on which no anniversary or patronal festival occurs in
the diocese are not listed.
Ecumenical Covenant
Please remember throughout the year to pray for our friends and colleagues
in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Southern California
(West) Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with whom our
diocese on November 21, 1993, entered an ecumenical covenant of daily prayer
and cooperative ministry whenever possible.
Prayer for World Mission Companions
God, Lord of all people, protect and bless El Salvador, Mexico, and Los Angeles as we seek to know you and serve
you in each other through our companion relationships. Deepen our
compassion, open our hearts to receive and share the good news of salvation.
We ask this in the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen.
This prayer is offered to strengthen the three-year World Mission Companion
relationships first adopted by Diocesan Convention in 1995 and renewed by
Convention in 1999.
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Guide to Moveable Feasts and Diocesan
Observances in this Prayer Cycle
1. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Observed January 18-25
annually
(Confession of St. Peter through Confession of St. Paul).
2. Lent: Hillsides Home for Children, Pasadena, is remembered both in
prayer and financially through its all-diocesan Ingathering during this
season.
3. Last Sunday of Epiphany: World Mission Sunday is observed within
the diocese
and the national Episcopal Church on the last Sunday after the Epiphany.
4. Easter Eve: The patronal festival of Church of the Angels,
Pasadena, is always observed on Holy Saturday before Easter Day.
5. Pentecost: All congregations bearing the name of Grace Church are
remembered
on this moveable Sunday feast.
6. Trinity Sunday: All congregations bearing the name of Trinity
Church are
remembered on this moveable Sunday feast.
7. Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday): Congregations of
Christ Church, Ontario; Blessed Sacrament, Placentia; and Holy Communion,
Gardena, are
remembered on this moveable feast day.
8. Second Sunday in September: The patronal festival of Church of Our
Saviour,
San Gabriel.
9. Third Sunday in September: The patronal festival of St. John’s
Pro-Cathedral,
Los Angeles.
10. Christ the King (November, Last Sunday after Pentecost):
Congregations of Christ
Church, Redondo Beach; Christ the King, Santa Barbara; and Christ the King,
Palmdale, are remembered on this moveable Sunday feast.
11. Third Sunday in October: Ministries serving children everywhere
are remembered
on this day, the annual national observance of the Children’s Sabbaths,
sponsored
by the Children’s Defense Fund, based in Washington, D.C.
12. Thanksgiving Day: Good Samaritan Hospital is remembered on
Thanksgiving
Day; parish plate offerings are traditionally collected for the hospital, as
well.
13. Advent I (First Sunday of Advent): Congregations of Church of the
Advent,
Los Angeles; Emmanuel, Fullerton; and Redeemer, Garden Grove, are remembered on this moveable Sunday feast.
14. The Jewish feasts of Passover (Spring), Rosh Hashanah (September),
Yom Kippur
(September) and Hannukah (December) are moveable dates each year. |
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First published in 1986, this cycle is updated annually,
usually during October. Corrections, additions and deletions should be sent
to the diocesan Office of Communications and Public Affairs, P. O. Box
512164, Los Angeles, CA 90051; (213) 482-2040, extension 240. E-mail
webmaster@ladiocese.org
The Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, © 2008,
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
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