{"id":33216,"date":"2016-02-21T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33216"},"modified":"2016-02-22T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T13:59:31","slug":"transfiguration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/transfiguration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfiguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33217 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Transfiguration Raffaello\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello-878x1024.jpg 878w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Transfiguration-Raffaello.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>\u201cJesus took Peter, James, and John<br \/>\nand led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.<br \/>\nAnd he was transfigured before them\u2026\u201d (Mark 9:2)<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u00a0takes them up Mount Tabor, \u201cto show them the full truth about himself, about his divinity, so that they can have hope in eternal life and they remember this experience of divinity, of bliss, of eternity, when it comes time to suffer through the passion.\u00a0In considering this scene at Tabor, we try to go to Jesus, to look at him, so that we may be enlightened. So that whether we are ill, suffering or dying\u2013 or sick and tired\u2013 we actually try to discover the Tabors behind the Calvaries\u201d (Fr Javier del Castillo).<\/p>\n<p>This gospel reading is reading twice per year: today on the second Sunday of Lent and in August on the feast of the Transfiguration. Do we recognize that Jesus is the center of our life of faith? Do we recognize that the death and resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate gift given to us that is foretold with this great of event personally experienced by Peter, James and John?<\/p>\n<p>Detail of Raffaella&#8217;s \u201cTransfiguration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them\u2026\u201d (Mark 9:2) Jesus\u00a0takes them up Mount Tabor, \u201cto show them the full truth about himself, about his divinity, so that they can have hope in eternal life and they remember this experience of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/transfiguration-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transfiguration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1953,2005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33218,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216\/revisions\/33218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}