Tuesday (Immaculate Conception)

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.