This Sunday we hear Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration of Jesus…right before the eyes of three of the disciples, Jesus’ true identity bursts forth and in one brief luminous moment , Peter, James and John are themselves forever changed….”transfigured” with a growing awareness of who Jesus really is! I believe that each one of us has our own “moments of transfiguration”….moments in which we see or feel the very presence of God. They are moments when, deep inside, we come to know that God is present….that God is real. These moments of awareness hold the potential to transfigure our lives into something new…something wonderful.
The challenge is to learn “to live out of” these moments… keeping these moments alive in our hearts and minds allowing them to continually transfigure us more and more into the image and likeness of God. As we reach out to the poor and the marginalized, the immigrant and the refugee, we are transfigured by the experience as well. For in “the encounter of the other, we encounter God” and we are changed! As Jesus’ true identity shown forth on the side of that mountain, so may ours burst forth during this Lenten sojourn into the desert. What “transfiguration moments” have I recently experienced? Where have I seen the face of God reveled? Where is God calling me to this Lent?
Lenten Blessings,
Fr Tim
The challenge is to learn “to live out of” these moments… keeping these moments alive in our hearts and minds allowing them to continually transfigure us more and more into the image and likeness of God. As we reach out to the poor and the marginalized, the immigrant and the refugee, we are transfigured by the experience as well. For in “the encounter of the other, we encounter God” and we are changed! As Jesus’ true identity shown forth on the side of that mountain, so may ours burst forth during this Lenten sojourn into the desert. What “transfiguration moments” have I recently experienced? Where have I seen the face of God reveled? Where is God calling me to this Lent?
Lenten Blessings,
Fr Tim
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