- Morning Prayer and daily task organization at home.
- Tried on new rochet and chimere that arrived during my absence.
- Consulted with the Archdeacon on some personnel and deployment issues. Reviewed a list of items that the Diocesan Administrator had stored up for me to make comments and/or decisions.
- Signed a form giving my consent for the Diocese of Haiti to elect a Suffragan Bishop.
- Processed a pile of correspondence that was waiting on my desk.
- Read, pondered, and processed the resume of a potential aspirant to Holy Orders.
- Spoke on the phone at some length with the past Senior Warden of a parish where some serious conflict is brewing.
- Composed and sent an email to the members of a working group I am convening in connection with my membership on the Nashotah House board of trustees. Spoke on the phone with a Nashotah administrative staff member on the same subject.
- Studied materials sent to me by the vestry of the parish I am set to visit this Sunday (St Michael's, O'Fallon).
- Began to lay the groundwork for the liturgy (sometime in May, most likely) in which I will be formally welcomed into the cathedral and seated in the historic cathedra.
- Prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary and Evening Prayer in the cathedral.
- After dinner at home, worked on refining my sermon for this Sunday.
- Oh ... and I fell, completely, for Google's April Fools gag. Fell really hard.
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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