Be transformed by this amazing Gospel reflection on the Transfiguration!

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00:00 This Sunday falls on the Feast of the Transfiguration.

00:05 What is the Feast of the Transfiguration all about?

00:08 Because it's meant to be something for us.

00:12 It's not just about what happens to Jesus on top of Mount Tabor.

00:16 And here's a way to understand it.

00:18 Let's say that you have the habit of going out to breakfast frequently with a dear friend

00:22 and you share your lives with each other, that you know everything about your friend.

00:28 You take turns picking up the tab, but this particular day your friend turns to you and

00:32 says, "I have to tell you something.

00:34 I just inherited a hundred million dollars."

00:41 Now the waiter brings the check.

00:43 If your friend doesn't reach for the check that morning, what happens?

00:47 There's something wrong.

00:48 Because he has more money than God at this point, of course he's going to pay for the

00:53 check and of course he needs to give you some of this cash that has befallen him because

01:01 this windfall that's been given to him, because that's what friends do.

01:04 St. Thomas, when he talks about friendship, he says, "Friendship, now it is proper to

01:09 friendship that a person reveals his secrets to his friend."

01:12 Jesus is doing that in the Transfiguration.

01:14 "Because friendship unites their affections and of two hearts makes one.

01:19 The same union requires that he should share his belongings with him.

01:24 Because since a man regards his friend as his other self, it follows that he will take

01:29 care of him as he would take care of himself by sharing his goods with him."

01:35 So if this happens just on any earthly level, of course what happens on Mount Tabor, Jesus

01:42 wants to give to us as well.

01:43 He's saying, "There is a way of living your humanity, of becoming like God, of being transformed

01:50 so that all the weakness and all the limit and imperfection that otherwise gets us down,

01:57 that's going to be changed if you accept what I'm showing you here.

02:01 You accept this gift."

02:02 St. Leo the Great says, "Through the Transfiguration, the whole body of Christ was to understand

02:08 the kind of transformation that it would receive as his gift."

02:14 Jesus on Mount Tabor is saying to you and me, "Become what you behold.

02:20 Let's let him change our lives."