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lemonrock 68M
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3/4/2007 6:19 am

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3/4/2007 6:33 pm
The Transfiguration of Jesus... reflect

The Transfiguration of Jesus... reflect

Today’s gospel scene can help us to hold on to the Church’s constant belief in Christ as true man and true God. For there he appears fully human at the beginning of the scene. When he climbs up a mountain with his three disciples, he has to exert just as much muscular effort as they do. His sweat and tiredness and body odor are just as real as theirs. In fact, their difficulty is to go beyond Jesus’ so painfully obvious humanity and perceive something of his other nature.

In a great gesture of compassionate concession to their spiritual blindness, Jesus lifts a corner of the veil hiding his divinity. To their astonished eyes, he gives them a glimpse of what his other nature is all about: for a few minutes he allows his divinity to overflow into his human nature and transfigure it with incredible beauty. As the gospel text says in stark simplicity, “becoming fully awake, they saw his glory,” his dazzlingly white clothes and his entire body radiating light from within.

Now, why did Jesus at this particular point in time allow his disciples to catch sight of his inner being? He wanted to strengthen them in preparation for the ordeal awaiting them in Jerusalem. He hoped to help them resist the temptation of despair when they would see him arrested, tried, and crucified. Perhaps, when they saw his mangled body hanging on the cross, they would remember the transfiguration scene and understand that it was really God who was dying on the cross, and not just any good man.


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