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2nd Sunday of Lent

Lent & Transfiguration

Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/IyY3B9FwKvw In this Commentary Clip, Tony explores how the episode of Our Lord's Transfiguration teaches us the desired goal of our Lenten journey. Namely, that just as Moses once was, we too might be transfigured by strivi...
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Pride & The Desire for Immortality

Posted on February 27, 2026February 27, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/nfV0Sn7ldIc In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses a basic element of spiritual metaphysics that we all experience deeply within our bones as human creatures. Namely, God created us for life without end and we naturally de...
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Entering into Jesus’ Transfiguring Prayer

Posted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/VkZOsgrUAbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how while the Apostles fail to enter into Jesus' transfiguring prayer over the course of His Passion, there are two individuals we can look to and see how life changes rad...
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The Importance of Remaining Spiritually Awake

Posted on March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/2UeMsM1WRbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the contrast St. Luke draws between the Apostles being awake at the Transfiguration and asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane. As Tony explains, placing these two scenes alon...
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Mountaintops & Prayer

Posted on March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/Y_w7ZraIFok In this Commentary Clip, Tony talks about the mountaintop setting of Jesus' prayer in the Gospel of Luke. As Tony explains, through their symbolic significance mountaintops teach us a deep truth about the theolo...
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Transfigured in Prayer

Posted on March 13, 2025March 17, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/DKf66LE5uQ4 On this 2nd Sunday of Lent, we witness the Transfiguration of Jesus. As Tony explains, Luke's account of this great episode Jesus' life emphasizes the importance of prayer, and the transformative power it can ha...
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The Sacrifice of Faith

Posted on February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/Kdc3OloV4_M As we celebrate the Second Sunday of Lent, we are confronted by what appear to be radically different scenes from Scripture. On the one hand, we witness the terrifying Akedah, and on the other the Transfiguratio...
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A Transforming Journey

Posted on March 3, 2023February 19, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKAMrK8hcVc In this reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent, Tony Crescio explores the call of Abram, contrasting it with the episodes of the Fall and the Tower of Babel. Whereas our first parents and the pe...
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