No runs yesterday or today because of the intermittent heavy rain. Yesterday I had my hot breakfast, today coffee and fruit; Morning Prayer both days. Yesterday I celebrated the midweek Communion at St Helen’s (then bounced over to the staff meeting), today I will celebrate the Corpus Christi parish Mass at St Michael’s (didn’t/won’t preach at either). Keeping busy with emails and with preparing a holy card for Clement of Alexandria.
Last evening we tuned in to a videocast of the requiem for a beloved friend of ours. Margaret had decided not to fly out to attend in person, in part because we knew the service would be shown online. As matters fell out, the bishop’s portable microphone wasn’t connecting to the A/V device; since she had the primary role in the service and gave a eulogiacal homily from her own long acquaintance with our friend, we watched almost the entire service without hearing a syllable of what was going on. What we had hoped would be an occasion for releasing grief and binding our hearts with those of others turned into an hour of vexation.