Transfiguration, Year A

​The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there.
~Exodus 24:12a
 
…suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
~Matthew 17:5
 
Before Christmas, before Easter, there was Transfiguration. Paralleled in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and referenced in Second Peter, it is one of the oldest feast days in the early church and, according to the scholarship, predates what are now these more dominant stories in the Christian calendar. What are we to make of this?
 
The hunger for encounter, for the exploration of the edges of our human experience and the meeting of the numinous, the mysterious, the holy that we hope and expect to encounter there reveals something of the hungers of heart and soul, the inner landscape of our lives. We seem to understand reflexively that we need to do our “edge work” if we are going to live life well, if we are going to be ok. We seem to know intuitively that our capacity to love and be loved absolutely requires following the story to the very precipices of life, and to the astonishing and transforming vision of the tender love and amazing grace we encounter there.
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Exodus 24:12-18 † Psalm 2 † 2 Peter 1:16-21 † Matthew 17:1-9
 
About the Art: Moyers, Mike. Be Thou My Vision, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57145 [retrieved February 4, 2026]. Original source: Mike Moyers, https://www.mikemoyersfineart.com/.

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