All Saints
by Bishop Daniel
on November 1, 2017
- Usual weekday morning routine. Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Prepared to preside and preach at the midday cathedral liturgy.
- Dealt by email and phone with a substantial administrative issue.
- Deconstructed and reconstructed a sermon text for Proper 27 from 1996, repurposing it for use at Trinity, Mattoon on the 12th.
- Attended by email to a relatively small administrative leadership matter.
- Took a phone call from Fr McMichael to talk through some of the choreography for this Sunday’s liturgies at St Andrew’s, Edwardsville.
- Substantive meeting with Rod Matthews, here for some Treasurer work, but, in our conversation, wearing his senior warden of Christ the King, Normal hat.
- Returned a phone call to a lay leader in one of our Eucharistic Communities.
- Presided and preached at the cathedral Mass for All Saints’ Day.
- Lunch at home. Leftovers.
- Attended to some work pertaining to two individuals who are ordained in other churches but who wish to serve as priests in the Episcopal Church. This is invariably a complicated process, requiring a lot of attention to detail.
- Scanned what felt like a truckload of hard copy materials.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedral.