"At his Transfiguration Christ
showed his disciples the splendor of his beauty, to which he will shape and
color those who are his: 'He will reform our lowness configured to the body of
his glory.'" - St Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
Gospel text: (MK 9:2-10)
Jesus took Peter, James, and John
and led them up a high mountain apart
by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could
bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along
with Moses,
and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
“Rabbi,
it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents:
one for you, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah.”
He hardly knew what to say, they were
so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow
over them;
from the cloud came a voice,
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to
him.”
Suddenly, looking around, they no
longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.
As they were coming down from the
mountain,
he charged them not to relate what
they had seen to anyone,
except when the Son of Man had risen
from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves,
questioning what rising from the dead
meant.
The gospel story of the Transfiguration
is, among many other things, an invitation to us for transformation. So
how do we answer that invitation? First, we must acknowledge that
we cannot transform ourselves. Jesus is the only one who can transform
us. We can only be open to being transformed.
What do I withhold from God that
could get in the way of transformation?
Said differently, what do I hold on
to, what am I attached to, what is binding me?
Is this
not the call of the Lenten season? To become aware of and let go of all
that
gets in
the way of our relationship with God? To let go of what prevents us of
being
transformed?
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We are all
works in progress. We all have our flaws. So accept Jesus’ invitation. Follow
him, and you’ll be changed. What is keeping us from being open to the love of
Christ which will transform us if we let it?
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