Thursday (St Patrick)
by Bishop Daniel
on March 17, 2016
- Task planning at home–38 items on the radar, most of which will have to wait until next week.
- Conferred with the Archdeacon on a range of concerns, and developments therein that arose during my absence.
- Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Took preparations for tonight’s Lenten teaching series at Trinity, Lincoln from the “rough” stage to the “refined” stage.
- Attended to some Communion Partners business via substantive emails to two individuals.
- Refined and printed the working text of my homily for Palm Sunday, to be delivered at St Paul’s Cathedral.
- Dashed off emails to two of our priests celebrating ordination anniversaries.
- Lunch from La Bamba, eaten at home
- Performed reconstructive surgery on an old Easter homily to make it fit for a reprise this year–at the cathedral Easter Vigil and Trinity, Jacksonville on Easter morning.
- Worked on a budding initiative, soon to be rolled out, that will invite the diocese to a special period of focused prayer between Ascension and Pentecost.
- Stepped out for a brisk 3,000 steps–southward and westward this time.
- Investigated options and made lodging arrangements in Dallas for next month’s meeting of the Living Church Foundation board.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedra.
- Headed to Lincoln for the final installment of my teaching series on prayer. Home around 9:00.