Wednesday
by Bishop Daniel
on December 9, 2015
- Organized tasks and responded to several emails before leaving the house … later than usual. (There were some techno-issues as well.)
- Morning Prayer (short form in the car). Devotions and intercessions in the cathedral.
- Prepared for the midday Mass.
- Made some notes–some mental and some electronic–in preparation for two meetings on my calendar.
- Finished preparing the second of my three addresses this Saturday at the Advent Quiet Day at St Stephen’s, Providence, RI.
- Met with (transitional) Deacon David Wells to discuss plans configured toward his ordination to the priesthood.
- Presided and preached the the regular 12:15 liturgy, keeping an Advent feria.
- Lunch at home–leftovers.
- Participated in a long and occasionally delicate but eventually productive video conference call with some key Nashotah House stakeholders.
- Caught up with an avalanche of email that had arrived during the video conference. Seriously, an avalanche.
- For various reasons finding myself a bit behind the preparation curve for preaching on Advent IV (Christ Church, Springfield), I put mental and spiritual pedal to the metal for a concentrated hour and, starting from scratch, produced a rough draft of a homily. It will still require a good bit a work next week.
- Short-form Evening Prayer in the car en route home (arriving just after 6:00).