Today is the last Sunday of Epiphany – Epiphany being that season that sits between the arrival of the Magi to worship the Christ child, twelve days after Christmas, and the beginning of Lent. The season where we focus on ways in which the reign of God was manifest in Jesus. The ways he showed us and told us what that reign looks like.
Today we get one last “hit” of disclosure before entering the wilderness three days from now on Ash Wednesday. And the hit is a really big one – it’s the Transfiguration – an event recorded in all three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke).
Yes, there are small differences between the three accounts, but on the essentials of this extraordinary episode they agree: Jesus takes his three closest friends up onto a mountain; while they are there, Jesus’ face changes, his clothes become radiant, and he is joined in conversation by two long dead prophets; Peter blurts out something silly about a building project...(read more)
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