Wednesday
by Bishop Daniel
on April 15, 2015
- Task planning at home; Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- Did a quick bit of pastoral care by email.
- Did some planning and made a phone call to advance the cause of a short clergy conference in November (3-4, if that affects you).
- Spent the rest of the morning taking my Easter IV homily (St George’s, Belleville) from the stage of notes-toward-a-message to rough draft of text.
- Dropped a load off at the cleaners, grabbed some TG to go, and brought it home to eat.
- Attended to a task (drafting a letter) that I volunteered for when the Communion Partner bishops were together in late February.
- Took a couple of more small steps forward toward planning a visit to our companion diocese of Peru in July.
- Tackled the learning curve of WordPress in order to post the videos of this year’s Lenten teaching series presentations at St Michael’s, O’Fallon. See it here.
- Did another bit of pastoral care by email.
- Took a head-clearing walk west to Spring Street, south to South Grand, west to Second, and back up to the office.
- Began to rework a sermon for Easter VI from several years ago for use this year at St James, Marion and St Andrew’s, Carbondale.
- Attended to chores pertaining to a some people in the ordination process.
- Took care of a bit of administrivia related to one of our mission congregations.
- Evening Prayer in the cathedral.