Friday (St David)
by Bishop Daniel
on March 1, 2019
- Usual weekday AM routine, which now includes a not-insignificant set of stretches and exercises prescribed by my physical therapist.
- Attended via email to a handful of administrative chores that had piled up.
- Took Brenda to a doctor’s appointment. We’ve decided the Second Coming of our Lord will occur when a week goes by that one of us doesn’t access the healthcare system in any way,.
- Attended to an ongoing issue pertaining to the app I use to store passwords. A chain of email exchanges with tech support has so far been of no avail.
- Lunched on an Italian beef sandwich from the dive around the corner.
- Began to load the new printer ink cartridge that I bought yesterday and saw that it was rather larger than the old one. Assumed a mistake had been made and drove to the Staples that I had walked to yesterday, only to learn that the mistake was mine. It was simply a larger capacity cartridge, which I would have discovered had I actually tried to install it.
- Had a substantive phone conversation with a lay leader in one of our ECs.
- Did the finish work (review, revise to make more “oral,” format, print, stow the output in my car, schedule for posting) on my homily for this Sunday (St Paul’s, Pekin).
- Took a long and vigorous walk with Brenda.
- Reached out by email to schedule a meeting with a group of clergy who are interested in exploring the work of “mystagogical catechesis” (the subject of the clergy retreat) in a deeper way.
- Attended by email to some ecumenical affairs business.
- Sat in our domestic oratory for a “holy hour” (only it wasn’t quite an actual hour), with lots of meditative focus on Psalm 131.
- Evening Prayer with Brenda.
