Tuesday (Immaculate Conception)
by Bishop Daniel
on December 8, 2015
- Weekly task organization over breakfast at home.
- Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Did some rough culling and sorting of the accumulated hard-copy detritus on my desk that reflected my absence from the office all last week.
- Substantive phone conversation with the Dean of Nashotah House.
- Finalized the transfer of funds for the purchase of a new automobile by the Diocese of Tabora, for use by their bishop, thanks to the magnificent and exemplary generosity of one of our endowed parishes. This involved several emails and a trip to Illinois National Bank to arrange the wire transfer.
- Refined and printed the working script of my homily for this Sunday (at St Stephen’s in Providence, RI, where I am set to give their Advent Quiet Day on Saturday).
- Checked in pastorally by phone with Deacon Ann Alley, whose husband Bob died rather unexpectedly on Thanksgiving Day.
- Attended the midday Mass in the cathedral chapel.
- Lunch at home–leftovers.
- Substantive phone conversation with Fr Mruiuki, priest-in-charge at Redeemer, Cairo.
- Reviewed, and discussed with the Archdeacon, a draft program for the Requiem Mass for Fr Bill Malottke, set for the 19th.
- Planned all the discrete tasks associated with presented a Lenten teaching series at Trinity, Lincoln.
- Brief Nashotah-related email.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedral.