My friend Mike sent me some thoughts as he prepared a Transfiguration sermon, noting that after the glorious, fear-inspiring vision, Jesus touches the disciples. This detail, which is only in ...

but not us Old Calendar people), today is the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ. Here, from Matthew 17, is the event Christians commemorate: After six days Jesus took with him Peter ...

I haven’t stopped thinking about an essay I read 15 years ago when I was in seminary. My pastoral life has been a decadelong conversation with Peter Dula’s “Fugitive Ecclesia,” a chapter from his ...

This is one of the most dramatic events recorded in Matthew’s Gospel and reveals the true identity of Jesus. The word ‘transfigure’ means to change or be transformed. In this event Jesus ...

The three Gospel accounts of Jesus’ transfiguration (Matt. 17:1–13; Mark 9:2–13 ... you’re not paying attention. But Matthew, having told us that Jesus’ face “shone like the sun ...

The Transfiguration was an event which appears in three of the four Gospels, in Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2–3, Luke 9:28–36. These describe an event before the final days of Jesus when he was ...

with him I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:16-17). To summarize, today we have learned that the Transfiguration: ...

The Transfiguration reveals Christ’s divinity ... the Pope discussed the passage from Matthew 17 in which Jesus leads Peter, James and John up a high mountain where Christ is then transfigured ...

That proclamation, echoing what Jesus had heard at his baptism (Matthew 3:16-17), confirmed Jesus as ... The wonder of the Transfiguration was not a light show but an invitation.

Matthew 22:40), testifying to Jesus. The Transfiguration is a premonition ... is his hour of glorification (John 12:23; 13:31-32; 17:1-5). Love is the greatest good, and nothing has more glory ...

TOMORROW, the festival of the Transfiguration commemorates Jesus’s taking James ... Terrified, the three witnesses then saw only Jesus, who told them not to be afraid (Matthew 17.1-8; Mark 9.2-8; Luke ...