One Sunday morning a mother shook her son awake, telling him it was time to

go to church. No effect. Ten minutes later she was back: “Get out of bed

immediately and go to church.” “Mother, I don’t want to. It’s so boring.

Why should I bother?” “For two reasons: You know you must go to church on a

Sunday, and secondly, you are the bishop of the diocese.”

Here we are, bishops, priests, and lay people alike, having rolled out of

bed and made it here this morning. Well, maybe we still have some

parishioners reclining at home…