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- My name is Jane
Mainwaring, and I'm

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the vicar of St. Mark's Church
in Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

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My day starts at
about quarter to 7.

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Usually the alarm clock
goes off at that point.

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And because I have a family,
it's all fairly manic,

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the first sort of
couple of hours,

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as we're doing breakfast and
getting ready for school.

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And then I settle in to
either going straight

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into maybe a meeting or
seeing somebody, or maybe just

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a quiet time when I
can pray or get ready

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for the rest of the day.

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Quite often I get asked, why
am I a priest and a vicar,

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what actually am I?

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One of my stock
answers is that I'm

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a priest, that's
what I always am,

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but the vicar bit
is my actual job.

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So there'll be lots
of other priests

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who might be a
chaplain at a hospital.

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There might be a priest
who is known as a minister.

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There might be a priest
who's known as a rector,

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is another term we
use, or a curate

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which is a vicar in training.

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So a priest is what we
are, but the other titles

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are all about what we actually
do on a day-to-day basis.

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Churches differ in what
services they have,

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but in my own church, we have
usually two or three services

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on a Sunday morning plus a
service on a Wednesday morning

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as well.

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- [SINGING]

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- We give a sermon in
church so that people

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can understand a little
bit more about the Bible.

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So we'll have a
reading from the Bible

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or a couple of readings
from the Bible,

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and then the job of the person
who's preaching the sermon

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is to try and explain
to other people

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what that passage
from the Bible means.

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And the sun came up and because
they didn't have deep roots,

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they withered away.

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That's like when you hear
about God and get very excited,

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but when things become
a bit difficult,

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we stop listening to God.

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And within those services,
there are some parts

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that are particularly my parts.

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For instance, the
Communion service where

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we share the bread and wine.

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And that has to be
taken by a priest.

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But there are other
parts of the service

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that get taken by other people.

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So reading the
Bible for instance,

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or leading the singing will
be done by other people

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as well as by myself.

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The body of Christ keep
you in eternal life.

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Eternal life.

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One of the ways
to spot a vicar is

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to look for what we
call our dog collar.

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It's a very strange
name, but we wear them

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because it's like our uniform.

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But when we're taking services,
we wear robes sometimes.

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So we might wear what's
called a cassock, which

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is a long black robe.

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We might wear an alb,
which is a long white robe.

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And then on top of that,
we would put a stole.

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So that's like a
really long scarf.

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And then, if we're going
to be really smart,

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we might wear what's
called a chasuble, which

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is like a big poncho
over the top of it all.

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And that's when we have
very grand occasions,

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and we feel like dressing up.

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The main duties of being a vicar
is essentially to run a church.

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So we do the day-to-day
sort of looking

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after the church building
along with other people.

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But also, a big
part of what we do

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is what we call pastoral care.

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So that's when we're caring
for individual people,

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so if they're going through
a particularly rough time,

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a lot of what vicars
do is listening,

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and it's being that kind,
hopefully listening ear.

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And maybe if it's appropriate
to pray with people, as well.

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- Shall we go into
the dining room?

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- Yep, you lead the way
and that would be lovely.

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So some days I can be spending
lots of time in schools,

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doing assemblies,
other days I'll

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be sitting with people in
hospital or in their own homes,

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listening.

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So one of the real
joys of what I do

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is that no two days
are ever the same.

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Have a lovely time and I'll
see you when you get back.

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- Lovely, Jane.

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- Thank you, again.

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OK, see you soon.

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Bye.

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- Bye, bye.

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- The Bible's important
to me because it's

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where I learn about God.

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When I'm trying to really
grapple with something,

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the Bible is the
place I'd go to.

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The Bible is in two parts,
the Old Testament and the New

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Testament.

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The Old Testament was
originally written in Hebrew,

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and the New Testament was
originally written in Greek.

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But the Bible has been
translated into lots and lots

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of different languages.

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And so in a Church
of England church,

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you would hear the Bible
being read in English.

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Sometimes we all need
just to sit and to stop.

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And for me, that's prayer,
and it's time to talk to God,

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to share what's on my mind,
and to listen to God as well,

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and just to be still for a time.

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My family tends to like just
hanging out together at home,

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quite into playing
on computer games,

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but also my children
are at a stage in life

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where they go to lots of
clubs and that sort of thing.

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So I end up as a bit
of a taxi, as well.

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Most days I cook,
but on a Sunday,

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which is my really busy day
in church, my husband cooks.

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My husband is getting better
at cooking the more he does it.

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My day usually ends
about 10, half 10,

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and then it's quite
nice, just at that stage,

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to put my feet up on the sofa
and relax before going to bed.

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One of the things I really
enjoy about being a vicar

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is the fact that no
day is ever the same.

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And also that it's really
involved with people,

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and I'm someone
that's - I've always

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worked with people, that's
what I really love doing.

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So I get to combine a
very varied lifestyle

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with being with people, but
also talking with people

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and sharing with people
what's most important to me,

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and that's God.

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