Transfigured and veiled...

 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

Then from the cloud came a voice that said, 

"This is my chosen Son; listen to him."— Luke 9:35

 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

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"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

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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