2 Kings 2, The second is simply a question: How might this story, with so many boundary-crossings, fuel the imagination of faith today?Elisha is transfigured too.
Ps. 50, 2 Cor. 4:3 Jacobsen-At the beginning of this little passage, Paul addresses the question of whether or not the gospel that Paul preaches is "veiled." The word "veiled" used by Paul here is kekalymmenon, if the gospel is veiled -- hidden, obscured, unknown -- it is only veiled to those who have been blinded by the "god of this world."With Christ, Paul sees God’s glory as he has never seen it before. It is as though the law turned on a flashlight in the darkness, but Christ has shone daylight. After seeing the world with the light of the sun, the limitations of the flashlight, though a wonderful tool, are obvious. While the law produced glory that fades, seeing Christ results in glory that grows as the witnesses are being transformed into Christ’s likeness (2 Corinthians 3:18).Heaven. And it is this "god" that veils the gospel and obscures it from the eyes of some. Carla Works-and see last paragraph
Mk.9-Skinner- Mary Gordon’s meditations on this story, she cites a translation of Matthew 17:5 that has God saying, “This is my beloved son in whom I take delight.” At the Transfiguration, then, “we are in the presence of delight. Delight as an aspect of the holy.” The Transfiguration does not sketch an image of intimidating purity or self-satisfied and inviolable majesty. It’s tender holiness. The scene is a reminder that holiness, as a characteristic of God, is participatory and shared. God loves, so God interacts.
What kind of voice is God? Bat kol or james Earl Jones
We know the word metamorphosis-it is a fundamental transformation, yet the basic elements remain the same as in geology.Marble is a metamorphic rock. Another way of saying treasure in earthen vessels.
It is a commonplace to see this vision as being connected to the post Easter Jesus.
Transfiguration tells us that the ordinary is being transformed, transfigured to reflect something deeper, something higher, something more than basic appearance.we will be receiving Communion during the sundays of Lent.
It is good that we are here.
Dwellings/tent is also a way of speaking about the presence of god and our understanding that Jesus is God’s own with us, as us Juel-.He withdraws with the inner circle of the Twelve...to offer to them a glimpse of his “glory”—the glory with which the Son of man will return. What the disciples see and hear on the mountain are matters reserved for the last times. They are offered a preview, a foretaste of what is to come. The inner group of the disciples is given a preliminary glimpse of his glory. But it is only preliminary. There can be no final glory until after the cross. That is the “necessity” which dominates Jesus’ career
Lehmann-In that light, the mystery and meaning of the ultimate presence and power by which reality is, and is defined and directed, are unveiled and concealed in the hiddenness and openness of a human person whose presence and power set the whole off-course world and human story on course again.
To gather in this assembly of the new creation is to be ever so briefly at home base, in the presence. And to lift up another insight from Schmemann, whether we dramatically encounter the presence of God or not is not the point. The church’s history is full of the lives of people who waited for a mystical encounter with the presence and never received that gift.
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