Transfigured and veiled

FEAST of TRANSFIGURATION

of the LORD

"From the cloud came a voice which said,

'This is My Son, My Chosen One. Listen to Him.' " —Luke 9:35

 Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-9; Luke 9:28-36

  

“At His Transfiguration Christ showed His disciples the splendor

of His beauty, to which He will shape and color those who are His:

‘He will reform our lowness configured to the body of His glory’” 

(Phil 3:21) (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae).

“As He then lived upon earth,

so now He lives in our midst,

but transfigured and veiled

to the bodily eyes

[in the Blessed Sacrament].”

Fr. Frederick William Faber