Thursday (St John of the Cross)

90 minutes on the treadmill. Morning Prayer while cooling off.
Task planning over breakfast. Such things ebb and flow. While December tends to be a busy month for parish clergy, my experience as a bishop has been the opposite. Were it not for the urgent matter that consumed yesterday (and much of today), I would be down to that list of “when I can get around to it” tasks.
In the office, brief consultations with the Communicator and the Archdeacon. Some light email processing.
Left a voicemail with the Chancellor of another diocese who has some technical expertise in the clergy discipline canons.
First get-to-know-you interview with a lay communicant who wishes to test a vocation to Holy Orders.
Met with one of our clergy, who both does supply work around the diocese and has some pre-ordination technical expertise that is potentially helpful in an ongoing matter.
Lunch at home. Leftovers.
Signed and sealed ordination certificates for two transitional deacons who are serving in another diocese and will be ordained to the priesthood there on my behalf.
More emails, phone calls, and conferences about yesterday’s Big Development.
Wrote congratulatory emails to clergy celebrating ordination anniversaries over the next three days.
Short form EP on the way home.