Transfiguration
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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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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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In the Transfiguration, Jesus’s change frightens the disciples because the spectacle itself marks a change in their reality.
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The mountaintop event is saturated with the disciples’ confusion. And is the crux of what happens after they come down the mountain.
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We encounter the Transfiguration with our own skewed vision of the world; and our precious place in it.