Thursday (St Patrick)

• Task planning at home--38 items on the radar, most of which will have to wait until next week.
• Conferred with the Archdeacon on a range of concerns, and developments therein that arose during my absence.
• Morning Prayer in the cathedral.
• Took preparations for tonight's Lenten teaching series at Trinity, Lincoln from the "rough" stage to the "refined" stage.
• Attended to some Communion Partners business via substantive emails to two individuals.
• Refined and printed the working text of my homily for Palm Sunday, to be delivered at St Paul's Cathedral.
• Dashed off emails to two of our priests celebrating ordination anniversaries.
• Lunch from La Bamba, eaten at home
• Performed reconstructive surgery on an old Easter homily to make it fit for a reprise this year--at the cathedral Easter Vigil and Trinity, Jacksonville on Easter morning.
• Worked on a budding initiative, soon to be rolled out, that will invite the diocese to a special period of focused prayer between Ascension and Pentecost.
• Stepped out for a brisk 3,000 steps--southward and westward this time.
• Investigated options and made lodging arrangements in Dallas for next month's meeting of the Living Church Foundation board.
• Evening Prayer in the cathedra.
• Headed to Lincoln for the final installment of my teaching series on prayer. Home around 9:00.