Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-9.

Lent is about suffering before glory



The Church has placed the Transfiguration of our Lord as the last

word that we hear before entering the season of Lent for good reason.

Over the course of the upcoming 40 days, we will follow our Lord to

Jerusalem, “where He must suffer many things from the elders and

chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised.”

For that brief time on the mountain, the three disciples experienced what it is like to live by

sight and not by faith. They “saw the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” They saw Jesus

just like Moses and Elijah and the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven see

Jesus all the time; just like we will see Him too.