Transfiguration of the Lord

Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. It is our glimpse of glory, the hope of the Resurrection that is to come. I think the commentator in the Magnificat magazine says it best, "Christ's Tabor radiance is a kind of mirror in which we glimpse the glory that God wills to give his friends. The resplendence of the Transfiguration reveals the fullness of life destined to be ours. The Transfiguration invites us to configuration. As we peer into the glory that pours from every pore of the transfigured Christ, we cast off everything unworthy of our personal relationship with the Infinite, and we take on the luster of the Son of God. Jesus gazes back at us with a luminous look of love that makes us desire to live his transparent beauty - to be luminaries. Silently from Tabor's splendor, the Savior begs: 'Become what you behold!'" (86). The preface for the Mass even said that the Transfiguration was meant to strengthen the disciples faith so that the scandal of the cross would not deter them in the mission or cause them to lose hope. This glimpse of glory gives us strength, especially to carry the crosses in our own lives, because we know the Lord is always present. Let us be strengthened by the Transfiguration and always wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Have a blessed day!!!