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Transfiguring (Epiphany Last A)
Working with the Transfiguration can be challenging. It has fantastic and captivating elements that demand attention.
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Up the Mountain
In the Transfiguration, three disciples follow Jesus up the mountain. And how they react to what they witness is everything.
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Alone—when solitude and presence meet
At the Transfiguration, a few disciples see Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus. Then, when they blink, Jesus is alone.
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Not the Mountain
The story of our failure reveals the opportunity for connection: that the point is not to seek the mountain, but each other.
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When Jesus’s words sting
After the Transfiguration, Jesus has what appears to be an outburst of frustration. But is it? Maybe they are more revealing than that.
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Appear – for when we look different
Our appearance is invested with expectation and is fraught with mistakes and stereotypes. In other words: there is power there.
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Listening to Jesus means actually paying attention
We don’t really know what to do with the Transfiguration. But it does remind us that sometimes we ought to shut up.
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The Transfiguration and the Pandemic
For SundayThe Last Sunday after the Epiphany Collect O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory;…