Last week, the First Sunday of Lent, the Lord took us with Him to the Desert where we saw Him overcome three temptations from the Devil. On the Second Sunday, the Lord takes us up a mountain to reveal to us the Glorification of our future bodies.
Jesus took Peter, John, and James
and went up the mountain to pray.
While he was praying his face
changed in appearance
and his clothing became dazzling
white.
And behold, two men were conversing
with him, Moses and Elijah,
who appeared in glory and spoke of
his exodus
that he was going to accomplish in
Jerusalem.
Peter and his companions had been
overcome by sleep,
but becoming fully awake,
they saw his glory and the two men
standing with him.
As they were about to part from him,
Peter said to Jesus,
“Master, it is good that we are
here;
let us make three tents,
one for you, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah.”
But he did not know what he was
saying.
While he was still speaking,
a cloud came and cast a shadow over
them,
and they became frightened when they
entered the cloud.
Then from the cloud came a voice
that said,
“This is my chosen Son; listen to
him.”
After the voice had spoken, Jesus
was found alone.
They fell silent and did not at that
time
tell anyone what they had seen.
~Lk 9:28-36
Three years ago on that Second Sunday of Lent, I highlighted how Luke is the only Transfiguration account that mentions that Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah on Jesus’s exodus that was to come. I had Dr. Brant Pitre’s video embedded to explain it. You might want to check it out.
This week Bishop
Robert Barron provides the best exegesis of this passage.
For the pastoral homily I’m going to hand it
over to Fr. Sam French from Australia.
One of the details of
this passage that neither of the two homilies touched on that caught my eye in
this reading is the moment of darkness that comes upon the three apostles. God in the cloud descends upon them and they
are frightened. Look at the first
reading and the darkness that frightens Abraham.
Sunday Meditation: “While he was
still speaking, a cloud came and cast a shadow over them, and they became
frightened when they entered the cloud.”
For a hymn, let’s turn to John Michael
Talbot’s “Sing to the Mountains”
Have a blessed Sunday.
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