God is transfiguring the world right this very moment through us because God believes in us and because God loves us.
- Desmond Tutu, God Has A Dream
On this Second Sunday of Lent, we celebrate Transfiguration Sunday. Lent is a time for Transformation. Each of us is praying to be transformed by God’s Love. In today’s second reading from Paul to the Romans, we hear If God is for us who can be against us? And in the Gospel we are invited with Peter, James and John to see Jesus as the beloved Son whom the Father “did not spare…but handed over for us all” (Romans 8:32). The mystery of the Cross and Resurrection is an invitation to see God’s love for all God’s beloved children and trust in it.
One of our deepest human spiritual longings is to know ourselves as the beloved of God. In her memoir, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou recalls being asked by her teacher to read a section from a book that ended with the words, “God loves me.” He instructed her to say the passage again and again. Eventually it dawned on her there might be truth in those words. She writes: “I suddenly began to cry at the grandness of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things. I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything.” This Lent know that God Loves you and ask God to use you to help another know that he or she is beloved.
Next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time, a day to set clocks ahead one hour. Remember to do this so you don’t show up late for Mass next Sunday!
Mark your calendars for Lenten Family Day on Sunady, March 18! Let’s come together to celebrate our faith!
Our Responsorial Psalm this week, "I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living," calls us to recommit ourselves to living lives transformed by the Gospel.
