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CATHOLIC VIDEO: “Mount Tabor and the Feast of the Transfiguration” – Franciscan Media

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Mount Tabor file photo, adapted from image at loc.gov, adapted by Steve Welsh, stevencwelsh.info

Franciscan Media presents a look at Mount Tabor and the Church of the Transfiguration, site of the Transfiguration of Jesus, when Jesus was transformed in appearance with His Face Shining like the sun and His clothing dazzling like light; when Jesus conversed with Moses and Elijah; and when the Voice of God the Father came from a dazzling cloud, saying, “This is My Beloved Son, with Whom I AM well pleased; listen to Him,” all before the eyes of the Apostles Peter, James and John.

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Homily of His Holiness Saint John Paul II, 21st Anniversary of the Death of Paul VI, Friday, 6 August 1999” – vatican.va 8.6.99

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“Today, the #ucharist which we are preparing to celebrate takes us in spirit to Mount Tabor together with the Apostles Peter, James and John, to admire in rapture the splendour of the transfigured Lord. In the event of the #Transfiguration we contemplate the mysterious encounter between history, which is being built every day, and the blessed inheritance that awaits us in heaven in full union with #Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.

We, pilgrims on earth, are granted to rejoice in the company of the transfigured Lord when we immerse ourselves in the things of above through prayer and the celebration of the divine mysteries. But, like the #disciples, we too must descend from Tabor into daily life where human events challenge our faith. On the mountain we saw; on the paths of life we are asked tirelessly to proclaim the #Gospel which illuminates the steps of believers. …”

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FAITHLINK: “Sermon for the Transfiguration 1,3-4 ” – Saint Ephrem/ DailyGospel

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Mount Tabor file photo, adapted from image at loc.gov, adapted by Steve Welsh, stevencwelsh.info

“He leads them up on a high mountain to show them the Glory of His Divinity and to let them know that He was Israel’s Savior, as revealed by His Prophets … He leads them up on a high mountain so that the Father may call Him ‘My Son’ and show them that He really was His Son and that He was #God. … shows them His Royalty before suffering, His Power before dying, His Glory before being insulted and His honor before undergoing ignominy. In this way, when He will be captured and crucified, His Apostles will understand that He did not undergo this because of weakness, but to consent and willingly for the Salvation of the world. ….”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Foundations of the Faith Part 4: The Central Mystery of Our Faith: Christians Worship the Holy Trinity, One God in Three Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit” – OSV Newsweekly/ David Werning

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Holy Trinity and Scenes From Scripture

“… The Athanasian Creed, written around the fourth or fifth century, puts it this way: ‘We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.’ …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “One and One and One Are One – A Homily for Trinity Sunday”- Archdiocese of Washington/ Msgr. Charles Pope

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Holy Trinity and Scenes From Scripture

“… On the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds. A mystery, though, is not something wholly unknown. In the Christian tradition, the word “mystery” refers to (among other things) something that is partially revealed, something much more of which remains hidden. As we ponder the Trinity, consider that although there are some things we can know by revelation, much more is beyond our understanding. Let’s ponder the Trinity by exploring it, seeing how it is exhibited in Scripture, and observing how we, who are made in God’s image, experience it. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT” – Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)/ VaticanVa

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Holy Trinity and Scenes From Scripture

“… The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith”.56 The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men “and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin”…. ”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: [‘So that He may give Eternal Life to all You gave Him;’] Against the Heresies, IV,14 (SC 100, p.537 rev.) – Saint Irenaeus of Lyons/ DailyGospel

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Holy Trinity and Scenes From Scripture

“… If #God requests man’s service it is so that he who is good and merciful might grant his blessings to those who persevere in his service. For, if God has no need of anything, yet man has need of communion with God. The glory of man is to persevere in the service of God. That is why our Savior said to his disciples: “It was not you who chose me but I who chose you” (Jn 15,16). Thus he showed that it was not they who glorified him by following him but that, since they had followed the Son of God, they were glorified by him. ‘Father, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory’ (Jn 17,24).”

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FAITHLINK: “Listen to Him: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Second Sunday of #Lent” – St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

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“… In #Jesus’ #Transfiguration today, He is revealed as the One through whom #God fulfills His Divine Plan from of old. Not only a new Moses, Jesus is also the “Beloved Son” promised to Abraham and again to David (see Genesis 22:15-18; Psalm 2:7; Matthew 1:1). …”

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FAITHLINK: “Sermon for the Transfiguration 1,3-4 ” – Saint Ephrem/DailyGospel

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Mount Tabor file photo, adapted from image at loc.gov, adapted by Steve Welsh, stevencwelsh.info

“He leads them up on a high mountain to show them the Glory of His Divinity and to let them know that He was Israel’s Savior, as revealed by His Prophets … He leads them up on a high mountain so that the Father may call Him ‘My Son’ and show them that He really was His Son and that He was #God. … shows them His Royalty before suffering, His Power before dying, His Glory before being insulted and His honor before undergoing ignominy. In this way, when He will be captured and crucified, His Apostles will understand that He did not undergo this because of weakness, but to consent and willingly for the Salvation of the world. ….”

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