Wednesday

In the office nearly a half hour earlier than usual, but found it difficult to get focused and get traction.
Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
My day for the noon Mass, so I made sure all was ready: missal marked, readings found, Prayers of the People prepared, homily mentally plotted.
Refined and printed my sermon for this Sunday, at St Andrew’s, Carbondale.
Attended to some items of administrivia.
Laid out the broad strokes of a sermon for Proper 25–October 27 at St Matthew’s, Bloomington.
Presided and preached at the regular 12:15 cathedral chapel liturgy, celebrating the votive Mass, “For the Nation.”
Went to lunch at Clay’s Popeye’s BBQ on South Grand Avenue East, with the Provost and the Archdeacon.
A little bit more administrivia.
Substantive phone conversation with Fr Thomas Fraser, president of the Living Church Foundation board, in our capacity as two of the three members of the nominating committee.
Consulted with the Administrator over some matters related to the upcoming synod.
Replied by email to some snail mail correspondence that’s been sitting in the hopper for a couple of weeks.
Conceived and hatched a sermon for the synod Eucharist (lesser feast of St Philip the Deacon). Will still need a lot more attention.
Worked on some clergy deployment-related issues.
Evening Prayer in the cathedral.