This worked out, just in enough time.
5:15 AM wakeup. I'm thinking that this is as late as it's going to get on days when I want to pray the canonical hours at their proper times as well as include the half-hour of mental prayer before Mass.
Anything later than 5:15 AM and stuff gets punted to after Mass. And that's lame. That's there if I need it. But if I don't need it, it's lame.
So: 5:00 AM on Sundays; 4:45 AM Monday through Friday; and 5:15 AM on Saturdays and on non-school days.
Lets try this for a couple of weeks.
And, I can always fall back to 4:45 AM everyday if I need to. And 4:30 AM is the early end of normal. Both of which I may need on any given day.
And I'm leaving 5:00 AM everyday on the table as a goal. But I'm not there yet.
