Priorities
Update: I made some bold moves, and this is the result
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s a start.
- DAC Presentation on font and church hall
- To include extensive explanations why this is the best solution, which the architect hasn’t time to prepare, so I need to have ready.
- Deadline: 23rd July
- Summer Camp Liturgy and Worship on Easyworship
- Deadline: 24th July
- Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage 26th July to 8th August
- Leave here 26th July for 2 weeks
- Ordinand Supervision for next 10 days
- Reports due by 24th July
- Blesséd Mass
- Deadline: 19th July
- Desert of lack of inspiration on key areas for worship, especially Gospel text: Matthew 20 etc Great Commission
- Greenbelt 27-31st August
- Blesséd Mass for adults (date and time still not confirmed) – nothing as yet organised
- Blesséd Mass for Youth (low-tech, nothing as yet organised)
- Discussion alongside Ian Adams and Nadia Bolz-Weber (much more eminent than me) on “Rhythm & calendars, feast-days & fasting: Maggi Dawn hosts a conversation exploring the attention paid to the ebb & flow of the Christian calendar in emerging worship.” Of which I know nuuthing.
- A vague suspicion that I have another worship to lead from Blesséd as well, but of which I have no information. I feel not very in control of what is expected of me, and I am worried
- MaryMass at Glastonbury, 16th August
- Have absolutely no idea what I am supposed to be doing for this: an email mentions a screen and a projector and beyond that – help!
- Sacramental alt.worship book
- Needs to be written before the end of November.
- House Purchase to be finalised, and my bolthole moved into.
- SCP
- Brune Park Chaplaincy
- Weddings
- Baptisms
- Funerals
- Bible Study and Discipleship
- All night youth event with Youth Evangelism Fund money
- 23rd September
- Nothing sorted for that yet, amid the constant fear that the Sunday night youth group might just implode in teenage apathy.
- Friday’s Youth Club
- new school year, new challenges
- funding issues
- Church Hall issues
- Parish Pilgrimage to the Shrine, 20-22nd November
- Induction as Vicar, 16th September
- Mass… as always
- Pastoral Care … they are always with us.
- Divine Office ,,, of course
- Wife and children – with their own special stresses and strains this GCSE and A’Level year as well as Lou’s NQT year.
- School Governor x 2 with new Ofsted Inspection, new SEF and a Single Equality Policy to devise.
- Blesséd Daily Text – both a delight and a right drag
- …and lots of other things besides
…and behind it all, chronic lack of sleep, low energy levels and my diabetes always threatening to spiral out of control.
Now I am not normally a moaner, and I tend to always be a half-full glass sort-of-person but I can’t seem to get beyond this seemingly enormous volume of activity. I don’t need sympathy, just your opinion on my priorities and the best way to tackle it all. I never claim to be the perfect priest, a second John Keble, and I am not above asking your advice. I know plenty of you are just as busy, just as stressed; but what do you think I could do?
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