Friday (O Adonai)

Overslept a bit (something I never do, but apparently turned the alarm off rather than snoozing it) and got tied up a bit while trying to get my day organized. Morning Prayer in the car while driving to the office.
Conferred with the Archdeacon over exigent concerns in two of our Eucharistic Communities.
Reviewed Christmas homilies from prior years, selected one, then performed major surgery–excising some material and inserting other new material, and moving some parts around–emerging with a rough draft of a sermon that I will refine next week and, God willing, deliver at the cathedral at both Christmas Eve liturgies.
Lunch at home. Leftovers.
Reviewed my January visitations and made appropriate notes, set up reminders, etc.
Reviewed an electronic draft of the service program for Sunday week (the 27th) at St Thomas’, Glen Carbon.
Drafted, printed, and arranged to send a letter to the vestry of one of our Eucharistic Communities, in response to theirs to me.
Processed a short stack of emails.
Walked next door to the cathedral to pray the Joyful Mysteries of the rosary. St Paul’s has a set of stained glass windows along the south (“liturgical north”) side of the nave that depict these five, plus a bonus for the Epiphany. Followed this with Evening Prayer.
Spent some quality time back on the office clearing off the physical top of my physical desk. It had been a very long time, and really needed doing.