Carry the light of Christ everywhere

Pope Francis underlined this August 6, the day when the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, that we are called to bring the light of Christ “and to make it shine everywhere” to transmit love and hope.

This is what the Holy Father said through a message on his official Twitter account @Pontifex_es in which he recalled that this feast “reminds us that we are called to live the encounter with Christ” and so that ” illuminated by its light “we can be” Like little lamps of the Gospel. “

“The feast of Transfiguration of the Lord He reminds us that we are called to live the encounter with Christ, so that, enlightened by his light, we can carry it and make it shine everywhere, like little lamps of the Gospel that carry a little love and love. ‘hope,’ the Pope wrote.

The feast of the #Transfigurationof the Lord She reminds us that we are called to live the encounter with Christ, so that, enlightened by his light, we can carry it and make it shine everywhere, like little lamps of the Gospel that carry a little love and love. ‘hope.

– Pope Francis (@Pontifex_es) August 6, 2021

The episode of the Transfiguration of the Lord is related in the three synoptic Gospels (Lk 9, Mk 9, Mt 17) and it relates the departure of Jesus to the mountain with the apostles John, Peter and James.

Among the many aspects to highlight in the story, there are two defining issues of the moment: Jesus’ conversation with Moses and Elijah, and the voice of God bursting from a cloud saying “This is my Son, the beloved, my favorite. Listen to it. “

The Gospel account describes that the Transfiguration took place on a high and isolated mountain called “Tabor”, which in Hebrew means “the embrace of God”.

Commenting on this New Testament account, the Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasizes that “for a moment Jesus shows his divine glory, thus confirming Peter’s confession” as well as showing that “to ‘enter into his glory’ one must to go through the Cross in Jerusalem ”.

For his part, Pope Francis explained, during a prayer from the Angelus in 2018, that this event featuring Jesus “also makes us better understand his Resurrection” because “if before the Passion the transfiguration did not have us been shown with the declaration by part of God, ‘This is my beloved son’, the Resurrection and the paschal mystery of Jesus would not have been easily understood in all its depth ”.

“In fact, to understand it, it is necessary to know in advance that the one who suffers and who is glorified is not only a man, but is the Son of God, who, with his faithful love until death, we saved, “he added. then the Pope.

A year later, in 2019, the Holy Father wrote on his official Twitter account @Pontifex_es that “in the Transfiguration, Jesus shows us the glory of the Resurrection: a glimpse of paradise on earth”.

And in 2020, the Holy Father declared after a General Audience that “as we strive today to heal the world and build the Kingdom of God, we cannot forget the exhortation that comes. of God: ‘This is my son, my beloved, hear him.’