Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

Catholics encounter the miracle of the Transfiguration every year on the Second Sunday of Lent. That Sunday’s Gospel early in Lent already points Christians — as Jesus pointed Peter, James and John — ...

"And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17:2). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels ...

Did you ever wonder how the image of God as an elderly man with white hair got started? The Book of Daniel has probably inspired lots of artists, the most influential being Michelangelo. Interestingly ...

It's a New Testament story that's been inspiring the faithful for centuries: On Mount Tabor in Galilee, a cloud appears, Jesus becomes radiant and, in a miracle the Apostles are sworn to keep secret, ...

but I tell you that Elijah has already come, |and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.’ Then the disciples understood ...

A baptism in the Catholic Church. (Credit: Archdiocese of Montreal.) Listen This Sunday, as we continue to make our way through the season of Lent, the church gives us the biblical account of the ...

“Hey mister. You got a bathroom in there?” I had come out the back door of our former convent, which is now used as parish offices. It is adjacent to our school playgrounds. The secretary needed ...

The fourth Gospel does not report the Transfiguration scene, but “glory” suffuses the Gospel’s entire narrative. Meanwhile, Peter, in his Second Letter, gives a clear account of it: “We made known to ...

Last week, we asked “What is temptation?” This led us to reflect on the hierarchy of goods. Temptation arises when lower goods are presented as if they were higher goods. Sin occurs when we choose the ...