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Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.


Today's Gospel: Luke 9:28b-36

In today’s Gospel, we hear the story of the Transfiguration. Peter, James, and John accompanied our Lord up the mountain and were able to see Jesus for Who He was, in all His divine splendor, but they also saw their own future. Jesus’ Transfiguration revealed His divinity, but it also revealed His humanity. The Transfiguration was a glimpse of the Resurrection, and Christ’s Resurrection is a glimpse into our own.

Jesus rose from the dead to bring the entire human cycle to fruition. He was conceived and born of a woman, was raised in the context of a family, worked and ministered to the people, suffered and died. And then He rose from the dead, just like we all will. As Catholics, we confess the resurrection of the body. Death is not the end for us. Neither is the separation of body and soul that defines death. We will not live forever as disembodied souls in heaven (or hell). At the end of time, we will rise from the dead. We will get our bodies back. Our bodies are part of who we are.

We are embodied souls. That’s what makes us human. Bodies without souls are corpses; souls without bodies are ghosts. Neither is fully human. We need both. We are both. The Transfiguration revealed Christ as both God and man. It was a glimpse of what is to come; Jesus Christ stood before His Apostles in His glorified state. Death is not the end for us. The Transfiguration was a glimpse of what God has planned for all of us who follow His Son. We have to follow Him to the grave, but then we’ll be able to follow Him to eternal life as glorified embodied souls, as humans.

 

Ponder:

 

How does the Transfiguration, and the promised resurrection of the body, change the way you view your body?

 

Pray:


Dear Lord, give us the strength and grace to always treat our bodies with love and mercy. In light of Christ’s Transfiguration, help us to always look forward to and anticipate with joyful expectation the promised resurrection of the body. 

 


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