In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I beg your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

We contemplate the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord, which is always done every year on the

second Sunday of Lent.

Now after six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain

off by themselves and was transfigured before them.

Here already we see a sharp contrast between what the devil did to our Lord in last week's gospel

when he took him aside and tempted him, took him to a high mountain to tempt him.

He or Jesus takes the apostles aside and undoes all that the devil had done to him.

The devil is there to deceive with half-truths.

He's there to mislead us to place our hope in the world, whether it be in the rocks that he wants us to turn to bread,

or to bow down to him so that we get all the kingdoms of the world,

or to prove something that we are children of God, as he tempted our Lord to throw himself down from the pinnacle of the temple. Here, our Lord takes

Peter, James, and John aside to show them the truth, not half-truths, but the full truth

about himself, about his divinity,

about the fact that he is the son of God.

In fact, they hear the voice from the father speaking, from the cloud.

This is my beloved son, hear him.

Jesus manifests himself in full disclosure to the apostles,

not so that they can have hope in the world, or some immediate satisfaction,

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