Friday

Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
Made liturgical and homiletical preparations for the Diocesan Council Mass.
Met for a bit with one of our parish clergy over an ongoing concern in his community.
Presided and preached at a Mass, using propers for Friday in Week of VII Easter.
Presided at the regular May meeting of the Diocesan Council.
Participated in some substantive ad hoc after-meeting conversations.
Lunch from Hardee’s, eaten at home.
Consented to the consecration of the bishop-elect of Bethlehem.
Attended by phone to a personal matter.
Wrestled with my exegetical notes on the readings for Proper 5 and emerged with a homiletical message statement (St Michael’s, O’Fallon on June 10).
Planned the details of Morning and Evening Prayer for the St Michael’s Conference. Time-consuming.
Took a first prayerful pass at the readings for Proper 18, in preparation for preaching at my DEPO parish, Trinity Church in Yazoo City, MS on September 9.
Evening Prayer in the cathedral.
After dinner at home: Wrote my third (of 30) Forward Day by Day meditation for November 2019.
Took my sermon for Proper 6 from “message statement” to “developed outline” (St John the Baptist, Mt Carmel on June 17.)