Thursday (Our Lady of Mt Carmel)

Customary Thursday morning treadmill workout.
Task planning at home over breakfast.
Morning Prayer in the office (cathedral was already abuzz for a funeral).
Arranged for some modest assistance to a clergy family in extraordinary need.
Took care of some business related to one of my DEPO parishes.
Arranged for publicity for an important parish mission strategy workshop in September.
Attended to a sensitive pastoral issue with a public relations aspect.
Attended to a small but important piece of Nashotah House business.
Followed through on a detail pertaining to a parish search process.
Lunch from ChiTown’s Finest (Italian beef), eaten at home.
Monitored some of the internet traffic following the pastoral statement on marriage that I issued yesterday. Much of it was positive and grateful. Much of it was quite ugly. I’m not surprised; I knew this would happen. But it’s still hard to see.
Worked on my homily for Proper 19 (September 13 at St John’s, Decatur), taking it from “developed notes” to “rough draft.”
Worked on sorting out some issues pertaining to one of our potential ordinands.
Posted Propers 15 through 28 on the website page for “alternative” Prayers of the People.
Scanned the pile of hard copy that had accumulated in my physical inbox.
Evening Prayer in the office.