Wednesday, 7/31/13
Moses hadn’t been aware of it, but in his forty days of
conversing with God, his face had taken on a marvelous brightness. Then, when
he came down from the mountain he scared the people away because of the inhuman
radiance of his face. To get the people back, he secured a veil around his
ears. St. Peter’s has a statue of Moses wearing a marble veil.
St. Paul, writing to the Corinthians described something
similar that happens with those who spend hours alone with God. Their souls
take on a radiance.
The Church name for that radiance is Sanctifying Grace. It
is an interior transformation taken on by those who advance from stage to stage
in holiness. It results in one becoming more and more like God.
What Paul said in Chapter Three of his Second Letter to the
Corinthians is, “And we, gazing with unveiled faces on God are being
transformed from glory to glory into his image.”
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