On a mountain in Galilee, Jesus let his disciples see the glory of God, his divinity, hidden beneath his humanity. And so we celebrate today the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
The world hides the glory of God which is concealed at the depths of the creation. In fact, we distort the glory of God by the bombing of civilians, as at Hiroshima, what Pope Paul VI called “a butchery of untold magnitude.”
But God has a way of undermining our attempts to destroy creation.
God has a way of revealing the Glory of God hidden in Jesus, the Beloved Son of God, and in God’s creation.
God is the God who transfigures, who subtly reveals the Glory that God wishes for us.
St. Irenaeus said that “The Glory of God is the human person fully alive.”
Blessed Monseñor Oscar Romero said that “The Glory of God is the poor person fully alive.”
How will I make that glory known and loved today?
Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. It is also the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. On this day in 1978 Blessed Pope Paul VI died.
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