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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Transfiguration of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS \nBy Han Urs von Balthasar1 \n◊◊◊ \nThe Gospel of the Transfiguration is preceded by the first reading telling \nthe story of Abraham’s sacrifice. And for good reason\, for the Transfiguration \nof the Lord was to be the Father’s demonstration of what his “beloved Son” truly \nis\, the One whom he will permit to be ‘slaughtered’ for and by mankind. For the \nJews\, Abraham’s sacrifice is … the climax of their relationship with God\, and \nthey emphasize that it was a double sacrifice: the sacrifice of a father\, who draws \nhis knife\, and the sacrifice of a son\, who agreed to his own slaughter …. [The \nevent represents] the extreme form of what God can require … from a man who \nis in a covenant relationship with him. The horror of it consists not in the \ncommand to kill the son of one’s own body …; rather\, the horror lies in the fact \nthat this son was miraculously given by God and destined to imitate and \naccomplish the divine promises. In his command God contradicts himself. Yet \nthough the command may be incomprehensibly contradictory to man\, he must \nobey because God is God. \nThe second reading resolves the apparent paradox by showing that God \nreveals himself as love in essence\, a love that does not contradict itself if it sends \nthe Son of God into real death and thereby fulfills the promise to “give \neverything”\, namely\, to bestow eternal life. Here the extreme is not the one- \nsided obedience of man in the face of an incomprehensible command of God; \nrather it is the way the Son’s obedient willingness to enter death for the sake of \neveryone is united with the Father’s willingness to sacrifice … [everything\, even \nto the point of not holding back his Son]. In this\, God is not only “with us”\, as \nin the Old Testament’s “Emmanuel”\, but is ultimately “for us”\, his chosen ones. \nIn this he has not merely given us something great\, but has given us everything \nhe is and has …. \nIn this perspective the true meaning of the light… radiating from the Son \non the mountain in the Gospel can be understood. In no way is this light \nproduced through absorption in oneself; rather it is the radiant … light of \nperfect surrender: it shows what the Father has really given up to “slaughter” \nfor the world\, what the new Isaac permits to be done to himself out of obedient \nlove toward the Father\, what the “overshadowing” luminous cloud veils [in the] \ndivine mystery. Fear and chatter on the part of the men necessarily follow\, but \nthey are commanded to avoid abusing by empty talk what they have witnessed. \nIt will interpret itself in the death and Resurrection of the Lord.
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