Friday (St Edmund of East Anglia)

Morning Prayer in the office. (The church was being cleaned.)
Prepared to preside and preach the noonday liturgy.
Attended to several details pertaining to the transitions in two of our vacant or about-to-be vacant parishes.
Responded to a query from the Church Pension Fund about the clergy of the diocese (generally).
Thought through and made some mental notes on an ongoing sacramental/liturgical/pastoral policy concern.
Celebrated and preached at the midday Mass, observing the lesser feast of St Edmund of East Anglia.
Lunch from Hardee’s, eaten at home.
Kept a 2pm donation appointment at the blood bank. I was supposed to give red cells but my hemoglobin was too low, so it had to be plain old whole blood. More red meat, I guess!
Spent a good part of what was left of the afternoon doing some routine once-in-awhile personal organization maintenance (if you must know, cleaning out the “Bucket” folder in my Evernote account). It’s not sexy, but it needs to be done two or three times a year.
Friday Prayer: Ignatian meditation on the daily office gospel reading from Matthew.
Evening Prayer in the office.