This is VLX number 106. His face shone like the sun. We are in Matthew chapter 17, just verses 1 and 2 and 3.

VLX stands for Video Lexio de Vina, the only participatory Bible study, and Ignatian prayer series online.

You might notice that there's a new background right here. I'm in my van. Sorry it's been a little

bit since we've done a normal VLX. I was doing a, I was out of fundraiser for Christians in the

Middle East, among other things in the southwest and west of the United States, found a way to

write and record on the road. And today we are in the Transfiguration. This is the mobile mission unit you see in the back that you help fund that I will explain another time.

We will now pray and begin the Transfiguration.

God give you his peace and Omipati Sifidi to Santee. Amen.

God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions,

and operations be directed purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty.

And Omipachi, Sifiri, Smi to Santee, amen.

And after six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became

white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

Okay, so you might have noticed I only chose three verses today.

Three verses in the Transfiguration.

Why did I do this?

Well, I think that we want to look at this contemplatively before we hear Peter talking

and other things that happen in the rest of the

Transfiguration, which we will do in VLX 107. So today, VLX 106 is the first half of the

Transfiguration. You might remember the church gives us this reading in Lent. It was a little bit

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