St Thomas
by Bishop Daniel
on December 21, 2012
- Usual morning routine, save for a delayed departure from home to the office because I spend 15 minutes looking for my keys. Apparently there’s not an app for that.
- Devotions in the cathedral (lighting candles under the crucifix in the rear, silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, Angelus–all part of the usual pre-MP routine); Morning Prayer in the office.
- In consultation with the Archdeacon, took care of a small but important administrative matter (prompting the Disciplinary Board to elect a President for the coming year–this, of course, is a body one hopes is never called upon to do anything).
- Put some considerable meat on the bones of a homily for Epiphany (which falls on a Sunday this cycle; I’ll be at Trinity, Jacksonville).
- Spoke by phone with my friend the Bishop of Upper South Carolina about … well, you can imagine.
- Made air travel arrangements to attend the spring House of Bishops meeting in March. I’m getting this sort of thing down to a system, with the aid of a nifty app called TripCase, and it’s rather less time-consuming than it used to be.
- Hand-wrote a condolence note to a colleague bishop whose mother has recently died.
- Broad stroke rough prep for the fourth of my four addresses at the diocesan ECW retreat in February.
- Did my weekly hard-copy scanning chores in an attitude of prayer as I listened on YouTube to a recording of a live performance of Messiah by the choir of Kings College, Cambridge under the direction of Stephen Cleobury. I will confess only here–and you’ll have to take my word for it because you’ll never witness it–that I do sing along with much of it. It continues to be a blessing even as familiar as it is.
- Loaded alternative forms for the Prayers of the People for Lent and Holy Week on to the diocesan website.
- Loaded ten more sung Psalms for the Eucharist on to the diocesan website. (This is a recurring task until they’re all there.)
- Evening Prayer in the office.
