2nd Sunday of Lent: Our Metamorphosis from Glory to Glory (a.k.a. How We are Like Butterflies)

There's a word in today's Gospel description of the Transfiguration event that always catches my eye, and that is the word used to describe what happen to Jesus before the amazed eyes of the disciples: He was metamorphòthe before them. Like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly, Jesus's body was changed before the disciples. Fascinatingly, St. Paul uses the same word to describe our transformation in Christ: "All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being metamorphòumetha into the same image from glory to glory" (2 Cor. 3:18). So when the disciples see Jesus metamorphosed before them, they are not only getting a glimpse into the glory of his divinity but also their own destiny in Christ. And ours!