Shrove Tuesday
by Bishop Daniel
on March 4, 2014
- Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Talked with the Archdeacon about some minor administrative matters.
- Took care of an administrative chore in connection with the Putnam Trust.
- Spoke by phone with a representative of ACS, with whom we are considering entering into a database management agreement. They have several Episcopal dioceses as clients, and we need to get into the 21st century.
- Spoke by phone with Bishop Donald Parsons, retired of Quincy, now canonically resident in Springfield.
- Refined and printed a working script of my homily for Ash Wednesday–12:15 at the cathedral, 6pm at St John’s, Decatur.
- Did the same thing for my Lent I sermon, to be delivered at St Paul’s, Pekin.
- Lunch at home. Leftovers.
- Hand wrote greetings to clergy and spouses with milestone events in March.
- Dealt with a small bit of Nashotah House business.
- Got to work in some detail on my Lenten teaching series, set to begin a week from tomorrow night and continue on the four successive Wednesdays, at St John’s, Decatur.
- Took care of a routine personal organization chore.
- Processed the hard copy in my inbox. Lots of scanning. Generated a few tasks from what I found.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedral.
