The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, 06 August 2024
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 ><}}}}*> 2 Peter 1:16-19 ><}}}}*> Mark 9:2-10
Thank you very much, Lord Jesus,
"in taking us always with You,
apart from others by ourselves
like Peter, James, and his brother John
to a high mountain” (cf. Mark 9:2);
many times You set us apart from others
amid many darkness like that night
on Mount Tabor
just to be with You,
to experience You;
how ironic in this age of
so much light everywhere
with a world running 24/7,
the more we are plunged
in darkness
that we feel lost and empty.
Continue to invite us
to detach from so much
worldly attachments
that are so irresistible
due to social media
and the glamor that come with them.
And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them… Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him” (Mark 9:2-3, 7).
Like Peter, James, and John
we also wonder at the meaning
of your Passion and Death when You
are the Christ?
Why all the sufferings happening
in us and among us with all
the confusions and divisions going on?
Like Peter during the Transfiguration,
we do not know what we are saying to you, Lord;
whether we are filled with joy or burdened
with sorrow, we speak without thinking much
even if you know what is in our hearts.
Open our hearts, dear Jesus,
to always listen to You by remaining with You
on the path to Your Cross;
let us listen more than talk
or click more without much reflections;
two ears form the image of heart,
never the mouth nor the lips.
Let us heed Peter in his words today:
Moreover, we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable. You will do well to be attentive to it, as to lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts (2 Peter 1:19).
Bring us back to your path of faith, Jesus;
amidst all these noise and divisions
of relativism and wokism,
open our hearts by listening intently
to your voice when all is dark
and even dead or as it happens these days,
blindingly so bright with artificial lights
because for as long as we return to You,
sin and failures become means for us
to be changed and transformed -
or transfigured
when we rise in your Resurrection.
Amen.
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