Thursday (St Chad)
by Bishop Daniel
on March 2, 2017
- Extended treadmill workout (90 minutes) to begin the day.
- Short-form Morning Prayer in the car.
- Addressed an emerging pastoral-administrative issue concerning one of our clergy.
- Initial rough prep for the first of my Lenten Wednesday teaching sessions at the cathedral (“Peeling the Paschal Mystery”).
- Initial meeting with an individual discerning a call to ordained ministry.
- Lunch from Taco Gringo, eaten at home.
- Made lodging arrangements for a night later this month that has me spending the better part of a weekend in BloomNorm.
- Made another small bit of incremental progress in making travel arrangements for a visit to our companion diocese of Tabora this summer.
- Wrestled with the scriptural texts for Lent V and wrung from them a basic message statement from which to craft a sermon. That is a mentally and emotionally laborious task.
- Plotted homiletical prep between Easter II and Trinity Sunday. This involves determining which occasions lend themselves to a “refurbished” text that I already have in hand and which demand something from scratch. It was about 50/50.
- Short-form Evening Prayer in the car on the way home.
