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Sermon for Sunday, 5th February 2012 (Epiphany 5/Ordinary 5)

Jan 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Sermons

‘When they found him, they said to him, ‘Everyone is searching for you.’’ Mark 1:37

Erwin Schroedinger, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, is buried in the little Austrian village of Alpbach; there is nothing to mark it as different from others except a mathematical formula and an inscription on his memorial that seemed to be from a piece of scientific writing. Visiting his grave three years ago, an Englishman came and stood beside us.

The Englishman was a policeman, but by qualification, he was a physicist. Our previous knowledge of …