I have two oddly-timed services today, the 10:30 Sung Eucharist and then the 5:30 Wholeness and Healing service; the ‘oddly’ comes in because we have a Faith Forum after the 10:30 with light lunch and a talk (Sr Lizzie Ruth from the Community of St Mary the Virgin at Wantage, on lectio divina), so there’s only a three-hour gap between getting home from church in the morning and leaving to prepare for the W&H service.
So I ran another good two miles’ time, had coffee and fruit, showered, dressed, printed the Collect and Preface for my plastic-bound Ordo, found the attendance record for the week’s Morning Prayer (which I always enter on Sundays because it doesn’t get done during the week), entered the record for other services I knew about, led the Mass, met and greeted for a short while, drifted to Faith Forum, listened to Sr Lizzie Ruth, scarpered home with Margaret for the break between services, and will in a little while wander over to church again. It’s very far from as busy a Sunday as plenty of clergy (I know I used to have three services more or less regularly in one parish, and clergy with multiple churches in their solo benefice must be worn to a ravelling), but I’ll be tired and happy to return home, dine, and unwind.