St Thomas (O Oriens)

Customary weekday AM route. Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
Prepared to celebrate and preach the midday Mass.
Attended to a bit of Nashotah-related administrivia.
Attended via email to a bit of ordination process-related administrivia.
Refined, edited, printed, and posted by Christmas homily (to be delivered at St Paul’s Cathedral).
Reviewed and commented on the draft minutes of yesterday’s Nashotah House board meeting.
Cleaned up a handful of other relatively minor pending issues via email.
Presided and preached at the 12:15 liturgy in the cathedral chapel, keeping the feast of St Thomas, whom I consider the patron saint of my priesthood, as I was made a priest on the eve of the feast 27 years ago.
Lunch from McD’s, eaten at home.
Gave my consent to the Bishops of Spokane and Indianapolis to retire. (Yes, this is a thing. You have to get a majority of the House of Bishops to consent to retiring from office, even if you’ve reached the mandatory retirement age.)
Scanned and otherwise process the accumulated hard copy in my physical inbox.
Consulted for a while with Pete Sherman, with whom we have contracted to help us get our database software up and running.
Continued work (begun several months ago and then laid aside) on what I intend to be a major teaching document on ministry, both lay and ordained. This will be a work in progress for a while yet.
Since the cathedral church was being “greened,” I headed home for Evening Prayer, stopping to run an errand first.