Visions of prophets, a glorified transfiguration, bright lights, and voices — all streamed together to “call” the disciples deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Jesus.
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Loving with all of one’s self, one’s being is a different kind of love
It is a freeing love. It is the love of the cross. It is a love that cannot be conquered by hate. It is a love that can transform hate and even, some would say, change the world.
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Perhaps, God’s anger, words are designed to pull out a response in us
Maybe 40 days is just enough time for us if we really chew on all of this, play with it, seek through it, allow ourselves to be touched deeply by these stories, and then to discover God and God’s love through it all.
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God wants to form us into Christian warriors
Do you form warriors with easy, peaky, weaky words; or do you shout out commands to toughen and roughen them up?
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Christ’s transfiguration was their transformation — and it is ours
We are called to listen to him, for it is in that listening that we will be led along the same pathways of faith; and our hopes, too, will be realized in Christ.
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Biblical storytelling at its very best
What’s more, the murderous plot to destroy Jesus would come, but not just yet. It would be incubated for 33 years, and then it would be a communal tantrum of, yes, the jealous leaders — not just one king but many tantrum-filled adults.
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We must truly look to him, look at him, and discover his look of love at, for us
“God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”
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Does Jesus’ teachings, word, example amaze us?
And even if they do, is there more? Do we feel compelled to follow him? Is his word truth like no other truth?
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Jesus invites us to know the Father through the Son and in the Holy Spirit
Jesus, the “light of the world,” came precisely to eradicate the darkness and to expose all to “the light.”
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We are invited to stand on the mountaintop with Jesus
The Transfiguration of Jesus in today’s Gospel sends an important message not only to the disciples who shared the moment with the Lord, but to all of us — every Christian. How does this story call us? Do we ever experience the voice of God clearly speaking to us in the ordinary?
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