Transfigured and veiled...

 Feast of the 

Transfiguration of the Lord

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"From the cloud came a voice which said,

'This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him.' " — Mark 9:7 

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

"Christian faith's steady gaze upon Jesus
transforms us here and now." 

Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Through your Transfiguration, O Christ,
you returned Adam's nature to its original splendor, 
restoring its very elements to the glory 
and brilliance of Your divinity." - Byzantine Liturgy

All of us, gazing on the Lord's glory with unveiled faces,

are being transformed from glory to glory into His very image

by the Lord who is the Spirit.  - II Cor 3:18

AMEN and AMEN