The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration of the Lord…throws a dazzling light on our daily life, and makes us turn our mind to the immortal destiny which that fact foreshadows. That body, which is transfigured before the astonished eyes of the Apostles, is the body of Christ our brother, but it is also our body called to glory. That light, which bathes it, is and also will be our share of inheritance and of splendor. We are called to share such great glory because we are 'partakers of the divine nature' (2 Pt 1: 4).

The above quotes are excerpts from the text that Pope Paul VI had prepared for the Angelus on August 6, 1978 but was unable to deliver. He died thirty years ago that evening.

You are the light of the world. Mt. 5:14

You who have the light, what are you doing with it?

Paul Claudel

Bathed in the glory of him...

The Pantheon, Rome, Italy

Photography by Ann L. Krumrein

Nothing gives such pleasure to God as the conversion and salvation of men, for whom his every word and every revelation exist. He wants you to become a living force for all mankind, lights shining in the world. You are to be radiant lights as you stand beside Christ, the great light, bathed in the glory of him who is the light of heaven. You are to enjoy more and more the pure and dazzling light of the Trinity, as now you have received – though not in its fullness – a ray of its splendor, proceeding from the one God, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

St. Gregory of Nazianzus