Saturday (St Clement of Rome)
by Bishop Daniel
on November 23, 2013
- Arrived at the cathedral/office complex around 9:45.
- Celebrated the 10am Diocesan Council Mass (observing the day’s lesser feast).
- Presided over the quarterly Diocesan Council meeting.
- Met briefly with one of our clergy who is experiencing a peculiar amount of personal stress.
- Met with the Archdeacon and one of our Rural Deans over a deployment situation in that deanery.
- Met briefly with the Standing Committee regarding a specific piece of business they needed to conduct.
- Met with the Bishop’s Warden of one of our missions, along with the Archdeacon and the Treasurer, regarding an emerging (an unwelcome) financial contingency.
- Grabbed a quick lunch at Taco Gringo with seminarian Ben Hankinson, now officially approved for the ordination to the transitional diaconate on January 30.
- Drove to Champaign, through one patch of horizontal snow.
- Met with the search committee at Emmanuel at 3pm, the Vestry at 4pm, the Deacon and Interim Rector at 5pm, then to the home of a parishioner for a vestry dinner.