Sermon for Sunday, 2nd March 2014
“Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here ” Matthew 17:3
On 2nd December 1985, I remember going to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral for the Advent carol service. It was a fine afternoon; the last beams of a watery, winter sun shone through the windows and ,as the light died, the air was cut by the voice of a boy chorister. The service was an occasion of astonishing beauty, a moment when we were gathered up from our mundane, worldly existence and taken up to …