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| Summary: The Mount of Transfiguration is beyond both our comprehending and our imagining. But it’s only a prelude to Easter, and it’s as Easter people that we can grasp it. |
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| Summary: Though the overwhelming numbers of hungry people in the world may leave us feeling powerless to help, we have more power to make a difference in a hungry world than we might think. |
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| Summary: Praying for hungry people is one thing, but doing something to be God’s answer to our prayer makes our prayer complete. When the disciples told Jesus about the hungry crowd, Jesus said, “Then get them some food yourselves!” In light of the world of haves and have-nots, Jesus may well be telling us that same thing. |
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| Summary: The story of the multiplication of the loaves and the fish is as much about lessons to be learned as it is a miracle to be marveled. It is not only an assurance that God still feeds us, but also our call as members of the body of Christ to feed others. The body of Christ in the Eucharist does not stand apart from his body in the world. |
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| Summary: Receiving the Eucharist feeds us spiritually. Living the Eucharist leads us to feed the poor. Just as our Lord fed the multitudes who had come out to receive his words, so St. Oscar Romero fed the deep hunger for freedom and justice of the Salvadoran people, which led to his martyrdom as he lifted the Host on high. As the body of Christ, we too should serve. |
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| Summary: On this day, we remember the institution of that Blessed Sacrament by which Jesus feeds us. In this passage, we are shown that Jesus feeds us so that we may feed the crowd — the world that comes to his door seeking salvation, healing and wholeness. |
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| Summary: On the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah spoke with Jesus about the “departure,” the exodus that he would accomplish at Jerusalem. The word calls up the memory of the great saving event of the Old Testament, the Exodus from Egypt through the sea. It was really a creative event, in which God formed Israel as God’s own people. The new Exodus that Jesus will bring about, enacted in the traditional observance of Lent and Easter, is an act of new creation. |
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| Summary: We may miss one of God’s very special moments because of weariness or some common distraction. |
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| Summary: We are always looking for that to which we can compare Jesus so that we can understand him better. The Transfiguration event tells us that Jesus Christ is beyond comparison. |
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| Summary: The seemingly mysterious story of the Transfiguration of Christ was really a divine effort to help the closest disciples of Jesus understand more fully who Jesus is and how their lives would change as they gave their hearts to him. Yes, the story contains strange elements, but that doesn’t mean God is incomprehensible. Rather, it means that God’s self-giving love is evident in the gift of Christ to humanity.
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| Summary: Even though the Transfiguration manifested Jesus’ power in an unmistakable way, the persistence of evil was seen soon after in the spirit that the disciples could not drive out of a boy. The church today recognizes the persistence of evil, even after the resurrection. We take heart that the ultimate victory belongs to God. |
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| Summary: The Transfiguration didn’t change much for the disciples — or for us, for that matter — but it told them and us that Jesus is divine, and it set the stage for the Resurrection to prove it. |
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| Summary: The seemingly mysterious story of the Transfiguration of Christ was really a divine effort to help the closest disciples of Jesus understand more fully who Jesus is and how their lives would change as they gave their hearts to him. Yes, the story contains strange elements, but that doesn’t mean God is incomprehensible. Rather, it means that God’s self-giving love is evident in the gift of Christ to humanity.
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| Summary: We have to make the best decisions we can, but most of the time, certainty about the outcome -- and often even about the rightness of the chosen solution -- is not possible. But we can look at those few things about which we can be positive, and thank God that those are given for our benefit and to assure us that we are not alone in this world |
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| Summary: Following Jesus is a tough journey, requiring us to respond to rejection with love, while sacrificing comfort and security. But the end of the road is new and everlasting life. |
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| Summary: Following Jesus isn’t an easy task. It involves leaving what you know behind and taking a big risk in life. Taking risks sometimes means letting go of control, but usually when you do that, the reward is great. We are invited into something big and meaningful, and it changes us for the better. |
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| Summary: Even in the pleasant days of summer, we ought to make commitments that are good for every season. |
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| Summary: Having told his disciples for the second time what would happen to him in Jerusalem, Jesus sets his face decisively for that city. We’re told about three people who want to follow Jesus “but” — but want to put their own conditions on discipleship. As he is starting out with the Twelve, Jesus has to rebuke two of them who want to punish a city that refused to receive him. Those two extremes, of halfway commitment and fanaticism, are to be distinguished from a total commitment to follow the way of Jesus.
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| Summary: It is the combination of our initial commitments to God coupled with frequent ongoing contact with him that helps us know how to live and how to behave in the difficult situations of life. |
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| Summary: To follow Jesus is to step into an unknown in which the only certainty is uncertainty. This is true even now, 21 centuries after the encounters we hear about in these passages. Nevertheless, Jesus’ call to us is just as urgent now as it was then, and the obstacles we put in our own way are just as real. |
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