Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Hypostatic Truth

Friends, today’s Gospel presents the Transfiguration of Christ. What is the Transfiguration itself? Mark speaks literally of a metamorphosis, a going beyond the form that he had.
If I could use Paul’s language, it is "the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Jesus Christ." In and through his humble humanity, his divinity shines forth. The proximity of his divinity in no way compromises the integrity of his humanity, but rather makes it shine in greater beauty. This is the New Testament version of the burning bush.

The Jesus who is both divine and human is the Jesus who is evangelically compelling. If he is only divine, then he doesn’t touch us; if he is only human, he can’t save us.
His splendor consists in the coming together of the two natures, without mixing, mingling, or confusion.

Note how this same Jesus then accompanies his disciples back down the mountain and walks with them in the ordinary rhythms of their lives. This is the Christ who wants to reign as Lord of our lives in every detail.
If we forget about this dimension, then Jesus becomes a distant memory, nothing more than a figure from the past.

+++ 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;
then from the cloud came a voice,
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to
him.”
Suddenly, looking around, the
disciples 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.
Then they asked him,
“Why do the scribes say that Elijah
must come first?”
He told them, “Elijah will indeed
come first and restore all things,
yet how is it written regarding the
Son of Man
that he must suffer greatly and be
treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come
and they did to him whatever they
pleased,
as it is written of him.”+++

Sola Scriptura. Sola Fide. Solus Christus.

I'm not sure what part of my post has triggered that comment from you...

but you must not be aware that the "Solas" you are "woe unto" for
were actually invented- yep, and by a man- a very flawed man,
and are incorrectly assumed to be "commandments" by many...
as there exists no Biblical basis for their invention either.

A bit of an irony alert, all around, as you can see...

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