Friday

Pretty routine start to the workday. Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
Substantive (incoming) phone conversation with one of our parish clergy.
Substantive conversation-in-passing with the cathedral dean.
Substantive phone conversation (incoming) with a colleague bishop.
Refined, edited, printed, and scheduled for posting my homily for this Sunday (St George’s, Belleville).
Conceived and hatched a post for the Covenant blog that is due next week. It still needs some significant development, but the skeleton is there.
Lunch from Taco Gringo, eaten at home.
Kept an appointment with a doctor to follow up on my kidney stone drama from about three weeks ago. Ran a personal errand on the way back to the office.
Devoted the balance of the afternoon to my homily for Pentecost (Emmanuel, Champaign), taking it from the “developed outline” phase to “rough draft.”
End-of-the-day incoming phone call from a priest outside the diocese calling to simply find out how to reach me. Well … he did.We had a conversation that was … you guessed it … substantive.
Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary in the cathedral, followed by Evening Prayer.