Thursday (Oxford Martyrs)

Customary Thursday workout: weights and treadmill.
Morning Prayer at home.
Got back to work on master sermon planning from Advent until Lent. This is time-consuming because it involves rifling through old material (the advantage of preaching as long as I have is that I have lots of old material for most any liturgical occasion) and discerning whether it can be taken out of storage and refitted, or whether I need to start from scratch. The task took me almost until noon.
Attended to some irksome and petty requests from the company with whom I am attempt to refinance some real estate.
Lunch at home–Brenda’s homemade “Cincinnati-style” (inspired thereby, at least) chili.
Walked down to Illinois National Bank to arrange for a wire transfer from my discretionary fund to the Diocese of Tabora to help with some of the clergy availing themselves of a continuing education opportunity in neighboring Kenya.
Refind and printed a working text for my homily this Sunday at Emmanuel, Champaign.
Placed an online order for a couple of books from Forward Movement.
Composed and sent an email to Bishop Godfrey of Peru, our other companion diocese.
Attempted to download and install some firmware (whatever that is) for the diocesan video camera. Not sure whether I succeeded.
Closed the loop via email with three pending matters of administrivia.
Evening Prayer in the car on the way to pick up a repaired pair of glasses from the optician before heading home.