St John
by Bishop Daniel
on December 27, 2016
- Usual AM routine. Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Debriefed with the Archdeacon on various matters professional and personal.
- Responded (in Spanish) to a new email message Bishop Jorge Aguilar of our companion diocese of Peru.
- Contacted (via email) the priest in a parish where I’m scheduled to be on a Sunday in January just to touch base on some of the details of the visitation.
- Took an incoming phone call from a priest from outside the diocese who was (benignly) seeking some information about someone inside the diocese.
- After looking at a couple of other examples of the species, mentally charted a course toward an extemporized homily on the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, this Sunday at St Barnabas’, Havana.
- Scheduled an appointment with my eye doctor for an exam next week. My current glasses are not really working for me, on a number of level, and I’m due for a checkup anyway.
- Spoke by phone with a priest of the diocese over an emerging pastoral and administrative matter.
- Attended Mass in the cathedral chapel for the feast day of St John, Apostle & Evangelist
- Lunch from La Bamba, eaten at home.
- One of my big responsibilities as Chair of the Nashotah House Board of Directors is to lead an annual performance review of/for the Dean & President. Toward that end, I spent a good chunk of my afternoon reviewing a handful of articles on the subject and composing an email to my fellow directors proposing a methodology for moving ahead with the process.
- Read and responded to an Ember Day letter from one of our postulants.
- Took care of another couple of bits of administrivia by email.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedral.