Wednesday
by Bishop Daniel
on November 26, 2014
- Finished a “non-statement” about the situation in Ferguson, MO, and posted it both on my own blog and on the diocesan website.
- Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Prepared to celebrate the preach the midday liturgy.
- Got the ball rolling, by means of a fairly substantive email, on planning the liturgy for the ordination of Cameron Nations to the transitional diaconate on January 2.
- Brought my homily for Advent II (St Andrew’s, Carbondale) to the condition of “rough draft.”
- Presided and preached at the 12:15 Mass, using the ferial propers appointed for the day. I was particularly drawn to a line from Revelation 15: “… for with them [the last of the seven plagues] the wrath of God is finished.” I went off in homiletical reverie on how what humans tend to experience and name as the wrath of God may actually be the love of God in disguise–that is, God preserving human freedom (a central aspect of the imago dei) by allowing us to experience the natural consequences of our own behavior.
- Lunch at home.
- Hand-wrote notes of greeting to clergy and spouses with nodal events in December.
- Took a brisk walk across the parking lot to Spring Street, then down to South Grand, back over to Second and up to the office. Got snowed on.
- Prepared a summary document for the chair of the Commission on Ministry with information about everyone at any stage of the ordination process, from about-to-be-ordained to the early stages of discernment. I can see a couple of lengthy COM meetings on the road ahead.
- Evening Prayer fell through the cracks today. Happens sometimes.
