- Uusual morning routine ... Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
- No appointments today, so it was a good opportunity to just punch out items on the do-do list:
- Worked on sermons for Maundy Thursday, Easter, and Easter II. As one of those occasions is tomorrow night, it got the most attention. (I seem to settling into a three-week sermon incubation rhythm, so I need to yet get Easter III into the pipeline this week.)
- Processed items that had accumulated on my desktop (my literal desktop, that is) over the last seven days (this is normally a Tuesday task, but I didn't get to it yesterday).
- Wrote a letter to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Belleville seeking permission to use one of his churches for the ordination of Jeff Kozuszek to the priesthood on June 10.
- Returned a phone call and scheduled an appointment with a lay person seeking counsel in discernment for ministry (not necessarily ordained).
- Spoke by phone with another bishop regarding a clergy deployment issue.
- Spoke by phone with Dave Lattan, the chair of the camp board, regarding some details about this coming summer's camp week.
- Responded to emails from a candidate for Holy Orders and from the senior warden of one of our parishes.
- Planned some of the details of the liturgy for my "welcoming and seating" in the cathedral on 15 May.
- Evening Prayer in my office.
Spring 2018 House of Bishops, Day 3
We have new stricter social media rules now in the HOB--no photos taken during a session without the permission of those in it. So ... I'm having to be more creative about finding pics for the blog, because I'm not going to take a panoramic group shot and then contact everyone whose balding head shows in the photo! Once again, the day began with Eucharist. This time, though, I took a pass, and opted for a vigorous walk on a brisk morning. Having looked at the liturgy sheet in advance, there were enough triggers that I knew the net spiritual effect for me would be negative. #selfcare I will say, however, that HOB worship has gotten incrementally less problematic during the tenure of the current Presiding Bishop, and I give props for that. When we convened at 10:15, there were the usual announcements, then a whirlwind set of summary reports from bishop members of the Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) and the Task Force on the Study of Marriage. The full report
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