The second person of the Trinity has his glory hidden in the cloak of Jesus' humanity.

And now all of a sudden, the disciples see the bursting forth of the full deity of Christ.

Jesus takes Peter, James, and John, and goes up to a high mountain apart from the people.

And the scriptures tell us he was transfigured before them. The word in the Greek is a form of the verb metamorphio from which we get the English word metamorphosis. And you learned that word metamorphosis in school when you learned

about the change, the dramatic change that takes place between a caterpillar when it becomes a butterfly.

It undergoes a change of form. And the Greek word for form is morphos. And a metamorphosis is a transfiguration.

The prefix trans means across. We go transcontinental. We go from one part of the land to the other.

And if we go transatlantic, we go across to Europe. That prefix trans means over or across. And what happens

here is that the person of Jesus moves. In terms of what is visible to the eyes of his disciples,

there is a transformation, a movement from one perspective

to another, where for all his earthly life, the incarnate logos, the second person of the

Trinity, has his glory hidden and veiled in the cloak of Jesus' humanity.

And now all of a sudden, before the eyes of the disciples, they see the bursting forth of the full deity of Christ.

Now let's notice the details that Mark gives us.

His clothes became shining, exceedingly white like snow, such as no launder on earth can whiten them.

And so when they describe the appearance of Jesus, they talk about the change in his face

and the change in his clothes.

When we look at the rest of the synoptic reports of this event in the life of Jesus,

they tell us that the face of Jesus shown with the brilliance and the intensity of the sun.

Now, where else in Scripture do we read of someone's face shining with a blinding intensity?

Obviously, when we look back in the Old Testament, in the life of Moses, we remember when Moses was on the mountain with God and he begged God

for the ultimate, blessed, beatific vision, what he says to God, God, please show me your glory.

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