Reflections for

Transfiguration Sunday, Feb 07, 2016

Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36, (37-43)

Blogging Toward Sunday

Mirror, mirror

Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)

Feb 08, 2010 by Adam Thomas

In this week’s epistle reading, Paul gives us what is perhaps the most alarming sentence in all of scripture: “But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.”

Books

The Mystery of the Transfiguration

Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.

Transfiguration

Dorothy Lee

Transfiguration: A Meditation on Transforming Ourselves and Our World

John Dear

Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography

Andreas Andreopoulos

The Uncreated Light: An Iconographical Study of the Transfiguration in the Eastern Church

Solrunn Ness

Rooted in Detachment: Living the Transfiguration

Kenneth Stevenson

Transformed

Jul 15, 2008 reviewed by Ian Curran

Whatever changes we may hope for in persons, church or society acquire a transcendent meaning only when they participate in the dynamic reality that has broken into the world in Christ. It is instructive that the most dramatic instance of change in the New Testament is a change in the physical figure of Jesus himself.

Living by the Word

Altitude adjustment

Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2; Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)

Feb 06, 2007 by Heidi Neumark

In the hospital emergency room, someone accidentally bumps into an aide carrying a bedpan, and urine sloshes onto the floor. After several hours of waiting, my mother is finally admitted. I pay for TV, but she does not have the strength to push the buttons on the remote. She can’t find the red button to call the nurse either. She tells me that last night she was taken down to a dungeon where she lay awake in terror. Now she wonders why someone left a black Scottish terrier in the corner of her room.

Living by the Word

Come on down

Exodus 34:29-35; Luke 9:28-36

Feb 10, 2004 by William H. Willimon

Jesus leads his disciples up a mountain. He was forever making them go places with him that nobody much wanted to go. But this was different. Mountains are good, quiet, restorative places for Sabbath retreat, rest and renewal. The pace had been hectic, so they headed for the hills. But on the mountain everything changes. The disciples’ solitude is intruded upon by the dead. If Peter hoped to “find himself,” forget it. He is discovered by the two great figures of the faith—Moses and Elijah. There is stunning, transfiguring vision and inspired speech. Peter, jolted awake, listens in on the conversation between Jesus and the patriarchs.

Living by the Word

Memory sites

Jan 16, 2002 by Patricia Farris

The transfiguration story is dramatically staged on a mountain peak lit with a bright, even blinding light. The mountain setting is familiar: as an Arizona native, the landmarks of my world were Squaw Peak, Camelback, North Mountain and South Mountain.

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