Transfiguration
by Bishop Daniel
on August 6, 2014
- Devotions in the cathedral; Morning Prayer in the office.
- Prepared to preside and preach at the midday Mass.
- Took care of three hanging pastoral/administrative concerns via email.
- Attended a regular monthly meeting of clergy associated with St Paul’s Cathedral (Interim Provost Tucker, Archdeacon Denney, Fr Franklin, Fr Stormer, Deacon Bradley, Deacon Raschke).
- Refined and printed a working text of a homily Proper 15 (at St Timothy’s, Salem, OR, while on vacation later this month).
- Took a walk around two blocks.
- Presided and preached at the cathedral Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration or Our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Lunch from KFC, eaten at home.
- Laid out the broad strokes of my address to the annual synod of the diocese on October 10.
- Attended via email to an ongoing conversation with my colleague bishops in the Communion Partners group.
- Took another walk around two blocks.
- In response to a request from one of the editors of The Anglican Digest, I revised, updated, and edited a seven-year old blog post on an Advent/Christmas theme. Look for it, I presume, in the Advent issue of TAD.
- Responded to three late-arriving emails, and took care of a routine personal organization chore.
- Evening Prayer in the office.