August 6: The Transfiguration of the Lord / La Transfiguración del Señor

Today’s liturgical Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord brings to mind the precious story of a little girl. When she was asked what a Saint was, she replied (thinking of the stained glass windows in the church), “A person who lets the Light through.” Do we trust that we are called every single day “to let the Light through?”

The Transfiguration also invites us to ponder that there was “the everyday Jesus” who was well known to His friends, both the Apostles and the other disciples. And then there was the special moment atop a mountain when they scarcely recognized Him, so transformed – Transfigured – was He. Divinity shone through Him, revealing depths that His followers had never imagined. Are we open to being transformed by God’s Holy Word, the Sacraments, the life of the Church ... or any of the countless ways God blesses us and makes us His own?

For further reflection today: Just as at the Baptism of Jesus and at His Resurrection, so also at the Transfiguration, the heavens were opened and we received a glimpse of the inner life of the Trinity of God (Luke 9, 28-36). Jesus was revealed as Son of the Father, who spoke from the cloud of Divine Presence, wherein dwelled the Holy Spirit. To God be all glory and honor, forever and ever. Amen.

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La solemnidad de la Transfiguración del Señor, que celebramos hoy, nos invita a dirigir la mirada “a las alturas,” al Cielo. En la narración Evangélica de la Transfiguración en el monte (Lucas 9, 28-36), se nos da un signo premonitorio, que nos permite vislumbrar de modo fugaz el reino de los santos, donde también nosotros, al final de nuestra existencia terrena, podremos ser partícipes de la gloria de Cristo, que será completa, total, y definitiva. Entonces todo el universo quedará transfigurado y se cumplirá finalmente el designio divino de la salvación.