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 have when we unite our prayer to Christ’s.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14
Reading 2: Philippians 3:17-4:1
Gospel: Luke 9:28b-36
Sources:
2 Peter 1:3-4
2 Peter 1:5-9
1 John 2:16
Matthew 17:1 & Mark 9:2
Acts of the Apostles 1:9
Luke 6:12
Luke 22:39
St. John of Damascus, On the Orthodox Faith, 3.24.
The New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism, 475 & Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2559.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Matthew 17:2
Exodus 34:30, 34-35
2 Corinthians 3:12
Luke 22:40
Matthew 26:38 & Mark 14:34
Luke 22:41
Luke 1:38
Luke 22:43-44
Luke 22:45-46
Mark 14:50
Luke 23:40-41
Luke 23:42-43
Luke 23:46-47
St. Alphonsus Liguori, A Way of Continually Conversing with God as a Friend, 7.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.