Sunday, 25 February 2018 2nd Sunday of Lent 1st Reading: Gen 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18 2nd Reading: Rom 8:31-34 Gospel: Mark 9:2-10
Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain. There his appearance was changed before their eyes. Even his clothes shone, becoming as white as no bleach of this world could make them. Elijah and Moses appeared to them; the two were talking with Jesus.
Then Peter spoke and 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.” For he did not know what to say; they were overcome with awe. But a cloud formed, covering them in a shadow, and from the cloud came this word, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him.” And suddenly, as they looked around, they no longer saw anyone except Jesus with them.
As they came down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man be risen from the dead. So they kept this to themselves, although they discussed with one another what ‘to rise from the dead’ could mean.”
D@GITAL EXPERIENCE
THE GOSPEL IN OUR LIFE EXPERIENCE
Lent presents topics starting with letter “T” in its first four Sundays: Temptation (First Sunday), Transfiguration (Second Sunday), Temple Destruction (Third Sunday) and Truth (Fourth Sunday).
Transfiguration was an event in the life of Jesus where his divinity shone through his humanity. The purpose was to allow the apostles a peep into his divine nature. The transfiguration event was supposed to be the event they could fall back on in times when events would weaken their faith. But despite the transfiguration, they still abandoned him, starting with Peter whose lies were unveiled unceremoniously by a rooster.
Even though Jesus was aware of the motives of the apostles and of the people in general, he still took the risk of investing with his own life on a relationship with humanity that was bound to be one-way relationship story of love and infidelity. At the background of this infidelity of man is the fidelity of God to man. At the mountain of transfiguration we have the scene of Abraham offering Isaac in sacrifice (Gen 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18) prefiguring God the Father offering his only Son to mankind saying: “Behold my beloved Son, listen to him”. This graciousness of God prefigured in Abraham’s generous offering of his son Isaac is succinctly expressed in Paul’s letter to the Romans 8:31-34: “If he did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not give us all things with him?”
Today’s Gospel invites us to revisit the transfiguration-events manifested by Jesus in our lives. What is that transfiguration event we could fall back on? – (Atty.) Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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