This is my beloved Son. Listen to him

Heb 11,1-7; Ps 144; Mk 9,2-13
23 FEBRUARY

In all that the Holy Spirit does in Christ, with Christ, through Christ, narrated in the Gospel, there is an eternal wisdom that only He can reveal to the heart. Who reads does not understand. But not even those who were present at the events understood. We know that not even the Virgin Mary had the knowledge of the mystery hidden in the facts. Then the Spirit of the Lord breaks in the heart with his divine wisdom and everything becomes clear. The event of the transfiguration will become the event on which he will base all his faith in Christ Jesus. Just as for Paul the Crucified Christ seen in his divine and eternal glory will be the foundation of his preaching. All Scripture is charged with divine and heavenly wisdom. We understand it when the Spirit will reveals it to us.

We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honour and glory from God the Father when that unique declaration came to him from the majestic glory, “This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased.” We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain. Moreover, we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable. You will do well to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God (2Pt 1,16-21).

Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith. For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength (1Cor 1,20-25).

With the wisdom of the Holy Spirit every disciple of Jesus is called to discover the foundation of his faith. Without a stable foundation, faith has no consistency. It is a set of words that does not transform our lives, does not help anyone else to let himself be enlightened by it. What is the foundation of my faith? What is its truth based on? Are its foundations solid? We are always obliged to answer.

After six days 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; then 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. Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” He told them, “Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”

On the mount Moses and Elijah, the Law and the Prophets are with Christ. Even the Father is with Christ. Those who are not with Christ are his disciples. The Father invites to listen to his beloved Son. It is a good thing to ask oneself: are the disciples of Christ today with Christ? Are they for him? They are in Him. From their thoughts, choices and decisions, there seems to be an infinite detachment. It seems to be on two distant and even opposing worlds.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that every disciple is with Jesus, for him and in him.