The Eastertide 2026 Plan for New Monasticism with Jonathan

It's 4:22 PM EDT on Easter Monday in Albany as I begin to write this entry. I've just completed my Eastertide plan for the 3 PM to 5:30 PM "Watch of the Steward" that is my dedicated Sunday-Friday horarium block for labor on this specific blog, New Monasticism with Jonathan. 

Every day from Easter Monday through Pentecost Friday, less Saturdays for the Sabbath, I have earmarked the hour from 3-4 PM each day for the following tasks:

• Medical Priorities
• Family Support
• Financial Upkeep
• Digital Inbox Zero
• Paper Inbox Zero

After this, I have scheduled from 4-5:30 PM each day until Friday, 1 May 2026, to wrap up my initial blog series on The Story of Monasticism by Greg Peters. Then, from Saturday, 2 May 2026 until Monday, 31 August 2026, I will study the Rule of Saint Benedict every single day (including on the Sabbath) during this same 4-5:30 PM time slot.

To the extent that time allows between now and the start of my Saint Benedict marathon, I will relabel the old posts on this blog to better fit the new cognitive structure I am developing. At its most basic level, this structure divides my blog posts into annual rungs. For example, everything I posted from March 2025 to January 2026 belongs to Rung 04, because this was the fourth year in my serious discernment of an eremitic monastic vocation. Everything I have posted from February 2026 to the present belongs to Rung 05. I didn't post anything on a public blog during the years 2022-2024, i.e., during Rungs 01, 02 and 03.

Let's see how this plan works out for Eastertide.