In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye," Jill Bevilacqua
and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Second Sunday of
Lent. Listen: 00:17:44:74 Gospel Mk 9:2-10
Jesus
took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And
he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such
as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with
Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi,
it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah." He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. Then
a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; from the cloud came a voice, "This
is my beloved Son. Listen to him." Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw
anyone but Jesus alone with them.
As they were coming down from the mountain, he
charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of
Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning
what rising from the dead meant.