Second Sunday of Lent/C
Massimo Palombella
In today’s Gospel (Lk 9,28b-36) Jesus is transfigured before Peter, John and James who, waking up from the sleep that oppressed them, “saw his glory”. To see the glory of God is the fulfilment of life, it is the fulfilment of our every desire, it is the location of our every unresolved issue in our life. To see the glory of God is, in mirror image, to know ourselves in truth, to take on everything, to accept it and transform it into an offering to God. The cross is part of this journey, an essential and, in some ways, necessary part. Indeed, the “glory of God” dwells, paradoxically, in our weaknesses, through which we grasp in truth our essence and, at the same time, the reality of a love that precedes us, envelops us and leads us.
The Gradual of today’s celebration is taken from Psalm 82 (Ps 82, 19. 14) with the following text:
Sciant gentes quoniam nomen tibi Deus:
tu solus Altissimus super omnem terram.
Deus meus, pone illos ut rotam,
et sicut stipulam ante faciem venti.
(Let the nations know that God is your name;
you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
O my God, sweep them away like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind).
The attached music, in Gregorian Chant, is taken from the Gradual Triplex published in Solesmes in 1979. The interpretation is by the ‘Chœr del Moines de l’Abbaye de Liguge’.
A blessed Sunday and heartfelt greetings.
