Reepham Benefice

It’s Sunday morning, it’s a dark morning and there is this chap in bed. He really does not feel like getting up. His alarm has gone off, his head is under the pillow and he wants to stay and listen to that Radio 4 programme at 9 o’ clock. And his mother comes in, once or twice. He still doesn’t move and eventually she comes in and shakes him: “Son, son, for goodness sake, get out of bed!”. “I don’t want to.” “Come on, it’s time, you should be up and dressed.” “I can’t think of any good reason to get out of bed.” “Well, my dear boy. I can give you two very good reason: first it’s Sunday and you must go to church. Second, you’re the Bishop.”

It was in fact his duty. Duty, duty, duty. Is that what Lent is all about? Fulfilling our Lenten duty. As you know it was Ash Wednesday last week and this was the first Sunday in Lent. On Ash Wednesday I went to church twice and I listened to the heavenly choral evensong from St John’s college at 4pm. I was really over-churched...

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