Readings this Sunday (click here) "The eyes fixed on Jesus Christ
What catechesis awesome! In a short story, we see the glory and mission of Jesus. The story is meant as reassuring for us who walk by faith. Let's see how the apostles were able to interpret the event of the transfiguration.
The action takes place on a mountain, a place of revelation. In this sacred space, the disciples will receive a new angle the person of Jesus and his mission. For a moment, clearly they see Jesus as the heir of Moses , The liberator of his people. They see it also as heir to Elijah. They understand even better than Jesus as the Messiah and prophet, in the footsteps of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament. Hence the excitement of Peter: "It is good that we are here, let us make three tents," as if it were possible to capture the moment.
But Jesus is more than just a political leader, more than a prophet, he is the Son of God, he is God. A voice is heard and said: "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him! "This is the" listen to the "That is difficult. Admire a master or love from afar is easy, but to attend her school, to understand his teaching and live is something else. Seen in this light, the story of the transfiguration is more telling than a single event, it is a life story that concerns us all and all, everyday.
At times, God asks all. Abraham knows something. The story of the sacrifice of Isaac shakes consciences. How a father can offer his son as well, how can God ask such a crime has a father? In reality, the purpose of this story was just to ban child sacrifice practiced by the Canaanites, as God intervenes to prevent Abraham from killing his son. The fact remains that God asks Abraham something that seems unthinkable, even absurd and contrary to filial love. But Abraham had faith in God, "If God be for us," could he say, "who can be against us? .
And what about the sacrifice of Jesus? What proof of love God has given it? He did not spare his own Son, for all of us who have delivered. So how could he, having given us what he holds most dear, do not give us everything, since, with his son, he gave everything! It and Paul reasons.
When experienced a personal encounter with Christ, everything else seems pointless. So if the disciples "saw no man save Jesus only" is that it became the center of their lives and that now they see the world through his eyes.
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