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Posted: 2/24/2024 9:21:36 AM EDT


Second Sunday of Lent
Lectionary: 26
25 FEB 2024 A.D.


Reading 1
Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18

God put Abraham to the test.
He called to him, "Abraham!"
"Here I am!" he replied.
Then God said:
"Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah.
There you shall offer him up as a holocaust
on a height that I will point out to you."

When they came to the place of which God had told him,
Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it.
Then he reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.
But the LORD's messenger called to him from heaven,
"Abraham, Abraham!"
"Here I am!" he answered.
"Do not lay your hand on the boy," said the messenger.
"Do not do the least thing to him.
I know now how devoted you are to God,
since you did not withhold from me your own beloved son."
As Abraham looked about,
he spied a ram caught by its horns in the thicket.
So he went and took the ram
and offered it up as a holocaust in place of his son.

Again the LORD's messenger called to Abraham from heaven and said:
"I swear by myself, declares the LORD,
that because you acted as you did
in not withholding from me your beloved son,
I will bless you abundantly
and make your descendants as countless
as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore;
your descendants shall take possession
of the gates of their enemies,
and in your descendants all the nations of the earth
shall find blessing—
all this because you obeyed my command."


Responsorial Psalm
Ps 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19

R. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

I believed, even when I said,
"I am greatly afflicted."
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
R. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
R. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.


Reading 2
Rom 8:31b-34

Brothers and sisters:
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son
but handed him over for us all,
how will he not also give us everything else along with him?

Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?
It is God who acquits us, who will condemn?
Christ Jesus it is who died—or, rather, was raised—
who also is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us.


Verse Before the Gospel
Mt 17:5

From the shining cloud the Father's voice is heard:
This is my beloved Son, listen to him.


Gospel
Mk 9:2-10

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;
from the cloud came a voice,
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they 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.


Overview of the Gospel:

~ This Sunday’s Gospel relates what is traditionally called the Transfiguration of Jesus (from the Latin:
trans = radical change; figur = appearance. The Greek word is metamorphothe).

~ This event is recounted in all three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). It is mentioned by
Peter in his second epistle (2 Peter 1:16-19) and we may even see a possible allusion to it in John
1:14.

~ In Mark’s gospel, the Transfiguration takes place six days after Jesus first predicts his Passion to the
disciples and presents to them the demands of the Cross (Mark 8:31-38). Luke adds the fact that he
took his three disciples to the top of the mountain to pray (Luke 9:28). The three that Jesus took with
him—Peter, James, and John—formed sort of an “inner circle” among Jesus’ disciples and were
present at key events in his ministry (Mark 5:21-43; 14:33).

~The traditional location of the Transfiguration is Mount Tabor. In Christianity, Mt. Tabor has been seen
as the counterpart to the Old Testament Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the Jewish Law (Exodus 19)
and Elijah the Prophet had an encounter with God in “a still, small, voice (1 Kings 19). Moses and Elijah
were thought to epitomize, respectively, the Law and the Prophets. They also were thought to have
both been assumed (taken bodily) into heaven.

~ At the end of this encounter, the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah) disappear (verse 8) but Jesus,
who is the fulfillment of them both (Matthew 5:17; 7:12; 22:34-40; Luke 16:16-17) remains.
[special thanks to Vince Contreras: "Sunday Scripture Study for Catholics."]


"We will not be able to share in our Lord's Resurrection unless we unite ourselves with Him in His Passion and Death. If we are to accompany Christ in His glory at the end of Holy Week, we must first enter into His holocaust and be truly united to Him, as He lies dead on Calvary." ~St. Josemaria Escriva
Link Posted: 2/25/2024 11:43:26 AM EDT
[#1]
Thanks!

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[#2]
Anytime, Brother, tortilla-flats!
Link Posted: 2/25/2024 9:54:41 PM EDT
[#3]
Thank you, BNA!
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