Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus: ‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and there came a voice from the cloud, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.
As they came down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what ‘rising from the dead’ could mean.
Gospel for the 2nd Sunday of Lent
Mark 9:2-10
Confusion is never far from our human condition! Nor is fear and uncertainty and doubt…
But in the experience of the Transfiguration, after the event, the apostles knew they had experienced something key to who and how and why Jesus was, and who and why and how they were to be in him, and for others.
Hereford Cathedral. (c) 2017, Allen Morris
Living Eucharist 
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