Saturday, 2/18/17
Today’s Gospel gives us the story of the Transfiguration. It
is a story we also have in Chapter Nine of Luke’s Gospel and in Chapter
Seventeen of Matthew’s Gospel. All three tell the story of how Jesus took Peter,
James and John with him when he climbed a mountain.
After Peter, James and John had fallen asleep, they were awakened
to see Jesus shining as though he was already in heaven. It was as though the
floor of heaven, like a Trampoline sheet, were pushed down to take Jesus temporarily
into heaven. Jesus glowed like a heavenly spirit; and the two people Jews
thought to have been taken up into heaven: Moses and Elijah strolled over to
speak with Jesus.
In the course of each year the daily and Sunday Gospels give
us this story as it is recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke’s Gospels. Each time
however our lectionary leaves off half of the first sentence in Matthew, Mark,
or Luke’s account. Each of them linked this story to the event one week earlier
when Jesus predicted his terrible public execution.
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