Father Matthew Wiering Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
2/25/18: 2nd Sunday of Lent: The Point of Christianity is not to become a Good Person
The transfiguration--or literally, from the Greek word used in the Gospel, metamorphosis--of Jesus manifests his divinity to his disciples. Why did Jesus appear to the three radiant with white light, an appearance which both attracted them by its beauty and made them fearful by its shocking strangeness? The Fathers of the Church tell us that Jesus revealed himself in this way so that his disciples would remember the revelation of his divinity while he is enduring his passion and not lose faith. But by anitcipating the resurrection in this way, in which he would be manifest in a glorified body, Jesus is also revealing to the disciples their own destiny: If they suffer and die with him and for him, they would be raised by him, and their own bodies would be glorified... This is the destiny and dignity of every Christian! Let us remember this truth as we endure our own passion!
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