The Transfiguration of Jesus and our Faith – Vatican News

Reflection on the Gospel Mark 9: 2-13 – Audio

Monsignor Joji Vadakara, Vatican City

The Transfiguration of Christ is an celebration that Matthew, Mark and Luke, identified as parallel evangelists, fantastically describe in their gospels. The superb event of the Transfiguration, which we strive to ponder in present-day Gospel, takes place a few times after Christ informed his disciples that the activities of struggling and dying awaited them on the route of the sacred thriller of salvation that he was about to deliver. In the Gospel of Mark we go through that this party can take area additional than 6 times immediately after the initially prophecy on the Passion. In the Gospel of Luke, the evangelist writes that this party takes place following about 8 days. Christ chooses three dear disciples who are crucial in the daily life of religion and example to witness these activities They are Pietro, Giacomo and Giovanni.

The mountain, prayer and the existence of God

In all the Gospels, Christ climbs mountains, hills and plateaus to pray in the existence of the Father and to educate the individuals who abide by him the Father’s plan of adore. These two points are offered to us in modern Gospel passage relating to the transfiguration. In present day Gospel we see that Christ goes up the mountain to stay the expertise of prayer, the existence of God, and instruct it to his disciples as an expertise. When the prophecy of struggling causes question and fear among the the disciples, today’s episode allows to encourage them through divine intervention that Christ is the Son of God, there is no have to have to doubt him, and that he is about to cross the suffering is component of the divine prepare.

Ascending to the greatest areas of prayer, that is, increasing the coronary heart to the presence of God, the transformation that it makes, or really should make in each human remaining, presents by itself to us as the 1st lesson of present-day Gospel. When the ordeals of persecution, pain and cross surface ahead of us in lifetime, we far too have to have to rise to better amounts of prayer to realize and completely transform them as component of God’s preserving intervention. Only when we stand up can we acknowledge the glory and the worth that God has placed in our daily life in his presence.

Existence and transfiguration of God

Another believed linked to the Transfiguration of Christ problems the light-weight that the disciples could see on the encounter of Christ when he was in the presence of God the Father. The existence of God is also able of illuminating the daily life of people who reside in worry of struggling and death. By way of modern Gospel, Christ is teaching us that each and every daily life that can climb to the best of the mountain of God’s prayer and really like will be a system of transformation for some others to see the glory of God. Present-day Gospel reminds us that if our existence is with Christ, even in times of anxiety, doubt and uncertainty, we way too can discover protection in the clouds of the care of God the Father. If we want to experience in our life the presence of that cloud of which we read through in the Old Testament, which was with us in the desert, which covered the tabernacle, let us check out to have an understanding of that we way too ought to be with Christ.

Christ is the despatched Son of God

When the prophecy of Christ’s suffering lifted doubts in his disciples, the transfiguration of Christ was a God-supplied event of revelation to dispel their doubts. When Moses, agent of the regulation, and Elijah, consultant of the prophets, surface ahead of them, and when they listen to the words of the Father from the cloud of God’s existence: “This is my beloved Son, listen to his words”, the doubts of the disciples are taken absent. The disciples, who have been frequently sleepless on the mountain of prayer, when they realize the Son of God in Christ, when they are prepared to recognize that the crusader activities of suffering in his lifestyle are component of God’s prepare of salvation, are prepared. a wake up and want to be in the existence of God. In the life of every Christian, when they strive to understand the indicating and reason of struggling and dying on the cross of Christ, they can develop into witnesses of Christ and grow to be lovers of the presence of God.

Elijah and Christ

The disciples are nevertheless waiting for Elijah, who was to be despatched by God the Father to direct his people today on the way of salvation. There remain ignorant guys who stand before Christ and do not know the way to Christ. In John, who called God’s individuals to the methods of repentance and atonement, he was not able to correctly realize the prophetic voice sent by the Father in advance of the Son of God. The lifetime of John, who arrived to guide the way. to Christ, he gave his existence as a witness to the real truth, it has not nevertheless had meaning for the disciples like so lots of other people. With this phrase we can also try to remember the truth of the matter that frequently we are not able to figure out the prophetic voices of God that invite us to the means of repentance and repentance ahead of our life.

The Transfiguration of Christ and our life

Many of us reside like Christ’s disciples on the mountain of Christianity, unable to enter the legitimate religion, usually obtaining a wonder in the light-weight of the transfiguration and remaining as envious as Peter and the other disciples right before it. Increasing from the magical earth of miracles, we try out to normally be with Christ in prayer, entire of God’s faith, in meditation and in God’s like, in the superb presence of the Most Holy Trinity. We test to develop into lovers of the existence of God like the disciples, but extra than that, to be reworked by God in the existence of Christ. We do not locate pleasure in basically witnessing to the world via exterior signals, functions and terms, but permit us give ourselves absolutely to God for the comprehensive transformation that God is working within himself. May possibly God bless our lifestyle to meditate on the moments of glory and elevation that God has well prepared in the moments of daily life, and to spread the hope it offers to the world. Could God get ready our life for God’s strategies. Permit the cloud of his existence address our lives and just about every instant. Could God make us witnesses of the glory of Christ. Amen.

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