The Mystery of the Transfiguration

“This is my chosen Son; listen to him.”

In last week’s Gospel, we followed Jesus into the desert where He fasted and prayed. This week, He leads us up a mountain to witness His Transfiguration. Why do we hear both of these experiences in Lent?

The Transfiguration was the most astounding, amazing and mind-blowing experience for Peter, James and John, revealing Jesus as truly the Son of God. What glorious Light shone from the face of Christ as He foretaste of Heaven and a vision of His hidden glory.

The fact that Jesus took the disciples up to the mountain apart by themselves signifies that He wants them to pray and worship Him.

Why does Jesus invite these three disciples? Jesus is preparing these disciples to be with Him during His Agony in the Garden.

The glory of the Lord is shown in “a cloud came and cast a shadow over” the disciples. The cloud is the visible manifestation of God’s Presence, known as shekinah. It corresponds to God’s glory, the same cloud that directed the Israelites to the Promised Land (the Exodus, Ex: 14:19) and in the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit when Our Blessed Mother Mary conceived Jesus in Her womb (in Luke 1:35).

Jesus is preparing us to go with Him in a few short weeks to another mountain top, that place named Golgotha, where He will lay down His life for our sake and finally to take us to an empty cave on Easter, when and He triumphed over sin and death once and for all.

It Is Good That We Are Here

We know that each and every Catholic Christian, is called to be one of Jesus’ disciples, to obey Him in the practice of our faith, to worship only Him and to deny ourselves, take up our cross and to follow Him in This precious time of Lent is the time to put all of this love, worship and obedience to God into practice, day by day.

We have the opportunity to prayerfully make a commitment and offering to God through the God’s House, Our Home

Lenten Offertory Program from OSV which will Transform and Transfigure our Parish in our Jubilee Year and beyond.

Stations of the Cross are on Fridays: After the 9AM Morning Mass and also at 3:30PM before the K of C 4PM Fish Fry.

Michael Poirier will lead us in our Blessed Sacrament Parish Lenten Mission From March 24 through 26

A Blessed St. Patrick’s Day And St. Joseph’s Day on Monday and Wednesday

Fr. Kilian, Fr. Samuel, our Deacons and our Parish Staff and Volunteers.

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