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What we tend to do when life gets complicated
It is easy, in the midst of confusion to not know who to listen to, so we can stop listening to anybody, including the one we need to hear.
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We need something beyond humility
A tension in the Transfiguration event is how Jesus responds afterward — in decrying to the people’s faithlessness.
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In their confusion, a voice — for Epiphany Last C
The Transfiguration is a big, bold event, full of bombast, but present are disciples who are confused and frustrated. Much like we are.
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Transfigured — We are more than what we look like
The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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When we don’t want to listen to Jesus
What they will deduce from the story is that Jesus’s appearance changed. And then the second sentence is: And that’s it.
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The Fear Blocks Them
What these three disciples witness on the mountaintop is beyond most of our comprehension. And we, too, focus on the wrong things.
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What you see and what you get
In the Transfiguration, Jesus’s change frightens the disciples because the spectacle itself marks a change in their reality.
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Between the Fifth and Last Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
The mountaintop event is saturated with the disciples’ confusion. And is the crux of what happens after they come down the mountain.