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Transfigurations
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March 5, 2023Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030523.cfm
The Gospel account of the Transfiguration depicts the full glory of the divine shining through the humanity of Jesus. For Peter, James and John, it was an awe-inspiring experience, one which they hoped to extend on Mount Tabor.
Malcom Guite’s sonnet, Transfiguration, sees this event as divine Love shining through Jesus, and inflaming the hearts of the apostles in turn.
As you consider Jesus’ transfiguration, might you consider how you are “transfigured” by this divine love that is reflected in you? Is your own heart inflamed, your hope renewed?Transfiguration
For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’,
On that one mountain where all moments meet,
The daily veil that covers the sublime
In darkling glass fell dazzled at his feet.
There were no angels full of eyes and wings
Just living glory full of truth and grace.
The Love that dances at the heart of things
Shone out upon us from a human face
And to that light the light in us leaped up,
We felt it quicken somewhere deep within,
A sudden blaze of long-extinguished hope
Trembled and tingled through the tender skin.
Nor can this blackened sky, this darkened scar
Eclipse that glimpse of how things really are.
From “Sounding the Seasons”, Canterbury Press
Malcolm Guite’s blog is found at https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/a-sonnet-on-the-transfiguration/
