So, why are commentators going on about it? Why are they saying that nothing like it would have been heard before in St George’s Chapel?
I think the answer is simple. None have been brave enough, committed enough to tell it as it is. God is Love; they are synonymous. The power of love can overcome all. It is at the heart of the Christian faith: the victory of love seen most vividly in the metaphor of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
If that is the case, why then do I have bookshelves crammed with explorations of theology?
Is it that they are an excuse for not saying it as it is, for, if you do, if you say that the power of love overcomes all, there is no longer an excuse for not doing something about it.
Meghan and Harry have shown in their lives so far, a passion for the outcast. The articulation of the power of love will surely drive them onward and upward.
I don’t think that this leads to piety with all its ‘spoil sport’ connotations. It leads to a life full in every sense.
It does beg the question of why we listen to sermons rather than getting on with the job?
I add a postscript, and deliberately a postscript.
Michael Curry’s presence and that of a British gospel choir said something with I dearly hope will be huge about inclusivity. People of colour have lived in these island probably for eight centuries if not more. That some have now been at the very focus of national celebration is both wonderful and dreadfully overdue.
Why a postscript, if it is so important? Because it should be ordinary; because in good places it is ordinary where people, irrespective of colour or any other difference, live in harmony.
Love has the power to make this the norm.
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