{"id":4811,"date":"2025-08-06T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:21:25","slug":"transfiguration-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"Transfiguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4813\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Mountain.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 9 :28-36<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A voice came from the cloud saying,<br>\u2018This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the spiritual life involves the following of a fairly ordinary path of joys and challenges, moments of insight and times of darkness. For some there will be a mountain-top experiences. For others there will be the stories of the mountain-top experiences of others. In the story of the Transfiguration, Peter, James and John have a mountain-top experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some commentators suggest that the disciples\u2019 experience of glory is a strengthening for Christ\u2019s impending Passion. Other commentators think that this experience on Tabor might be a resurrection appearance which Luke has mistakenly inserted here. Either way the text presents us with mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am always drawn to the fact that Jesus took with him those whom tradition considers his closest disciples. Though they didn&#8217;t and couldn&#8217;t understand what was happening, this mysterious experience would change them and bind them together.  In our ordinary lives we too are offered this experience. It&#8217;s love which will transfigure us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was struck by the centrality of love in this verse from our Lauds hymn this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transfigured Christ, believed and loved,<br>In you our only hope has been;<br>Grant us in your unfailing love<br>Those things no eye has ever seen.<\/strong><br>(Stanbrook Abbey)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How are you called to be transfigured by love today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 9 :28-36 A voice came from the cloud saying,\u2018This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.\u2019 Much of the spiritual life involves the following of a fairly ordinary path of joys and challenges, moments of insight and times of darkness. For some there will be a mountain-top experiences. For others there will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transfiguration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}