Pope reflects on Transfiguration, summer vacation at
Angelus
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis focused his Angelus reflection
on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which is celebrated each year
on 6 August. “The event of the Transfiguration of the Lord,” he said, “offers
us a message of hope: it invites us to encounter Jesus, to be at the service of
our brothers.”
The disciples’ journey to Mount Tabor, he continued, helps
us “to reflect on the importance of detaching ourselves from worldly things, in
order to complete our journey to the heights and to contemplate Jesus.” This
involves conforming ourselves to Christ’s attitude of "attentive listening
and prayer,” which allows us to welcome the Word of God into our lives. Summer
time, the Pope said, can be a providential moment to grow in our commitment to
seek after and encounter the Lord. “In this period, students are free from
their scholastic commitments, and many families take their vacations; it is
important that in the period of rest and of detachment from daily occupations,
the strength of the body and of the spirit can be restored, deepening the
spiritual journey.”
These spiritual heights, though, are not an end in
themselves. Following the experience of the Transfiguration, the disciples came
down from the mountain with “eyes and hearts transfigured by the experience of
the Lord." Pope Francis said that we too can “come down from the mountain,
recharged by the power of the divine Spirit, to decide on new steps of
authentic conversion, and to constantly bear witness to charity as the law of
daily life.” This transfiguration will allow us to be “sign of the life-giving
love of God” for all, especially those who suffer.
In the Transfiguration, the Pope said, we hear the voice of
the Father saying, “This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!” Pope Francis
encouraged us to look to Mary, “the Virgin of Listening,” and pray that she
might help us “to enter into symphony with the Word of God, that Christ might
become the light and the guide of our lives.” He concluded his reflection by
entrusting everyone’s vacations to God, and by praying for all those who are
unable to take vacations, that summer may be for them, too, a time of
relaxation, “gladdened by the presence of friends and joyful moments.”
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