Wednesday

Usual AM routine: task planning at home, Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
Prepared to preside at preach at the regular cathedral midday liturgy.
Returned a couple of phone calls.
Arranged for an ad to be placed in the next issue of The Living Church in an attempt to scare up some candidates for one of our clergy vacancies.
Got to work on my homily for Proper 17 (August 29 at St Mary’s, Robinson), takeing developed notes to a rough draft. This took the rest of the morning, and part of the afternoon.
Celebrated and preached the midday Mass–ferial Wednesday.
Lunch from TG, eaten at home.
Wrapped up work on the Proper 17 homily.
Attended to a brief Nashotah-related chore.
Ordered some starched cotton collars from Wippel.
Spent the rest of the afternoon drafting this pastoral message on General Convention and marriage.
Evening Prayer in the cathedral.
After supper and a walk at home: Drafted an Ad Clerum letter to the clergy, for distribution tomorrow; attended to a small chore on behalf of our companion diocese of Tabora, devoted some mental energy, culminating in some task planning and an email, regarding someone in the ordination process; did some broad stroke planning for the Eucharist at Synod in October.