Sunday, March 01, 2015
2nd Sunday of Lent
1st reading: Genesis 22.1-2, 9-13, 15-18
2nd reading: Romans 8.31b-35, 37
Gospel: Mk 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@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Mount Tabor and Mount Calvary were two experiences crucial to the understanding of who Jesus was. Mount Tabor took Jesus to the highest where God the Father proudly claimed him His Son in these explicit words: “This is my Son, my Beloved, listen to Him.” On the other hand, Mount Calvary took Jesus to the deepest and darkest dungeons of human misery – his anguish too overwhelming, he could only cry out: “My God why have you abandoned me!”
Were it not for Mt. Tabor, Calvary would have been hard to understand. Similarly, Mt. Tabor could only be understood in the light of Calvary.
Jesus is both human (Calvary experience) and divine (Mt. Tabor experience). To follow him, we must be willing to celebrate Mt. Tabor and embrace Mt. Calvary at the same time. To embrace one without the other is to dissect Christ. To dissect him is to make him a laboratory specimen, never a Master to be committed to. To dissect Christ is to engage oneself in an experimental discipleship, an endeavor bereft of final and total commitment.
Experimentation can be full of thrill. But thrill rarely engenders commitment. Art Turock wrote, “When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” If we are truly committed to Christ, we cannot settle for Mount Tabor alone. We have to embrace Calvary as well. No excuses. — Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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