Mount Calvary Sermons

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY YEAR B 2015 JOHN 1:43-51   You know those moments when you’re talking to someone and they say something so outrageous that you can’t quite believe your ears? In fact you wonder for a moment if you aren’t actually asleep, because what you just heard can only be said in a fantasy world or in dreamland. You must have slipped into some parallel universe, where everything looks the same but there is something deeply twisted about the laws of physics in this universe that make possible things which in our normal universe just could not happen. Well, this happened to me nearly twenty years ago, and even though many thousands of days have passed since then it remains firmly in my memory. That is how deep the scars go from this conversation. About a year earlier I had begun my first job as a parish priest. I was the rector of two small villages in the heart of the English countryside. Think ‘Vicar of Dibley’, but more eccentric. The parishes were righ