Gospel: Mark
9:2-13
Jesus took
Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And
he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as
no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with
Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
"Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you,
one for Moses, and one for Elijah." He hardly knew what to say, they were
so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the
cloud came a voice, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, the disciples no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone
with them.
As they were
coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen
to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the
matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant. Then they
asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" He
told them, "Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how
is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be
treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him
whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."
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Reflection:
Do you want
to be in heaven with the Lord when your journey in this world is already over?
Jesus showed
to the three apostles what heaven was like; He gave them a fleeting taste of
heaven. But then, He said not yet; let us go down first and continue my mission
of salvation. By doing so He would go through severe hardship, pain and
betrayal. But at the end of these all Jesus rose up triumphantly to defeat the
darkness of evil.
Before we
achieve success, we must toil in the sun and sacrifice. Before we go to heaven
we have to do something for the Lord and His church. And this will surely entail
sacrifice even hardship.
Why? Because
that’s how it is, there are no shortcuts to triumph. We must go through the eye
of the needle to fully enjoy the sweetness of our victory and success. Free riders
and freeloaders have no place in the mission for Christ.
We have to sacrifice
if we want to be with the Lord in heaven someday. We have to sweat it out if we
want to taste success in this world. There are no shortcuts. – Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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