THE GOSPEL
Mark 9:2-10And he was transfigured before them.
Friends caught a dazed glimpse
of him, as he really was!
In blinding brightness,
his clothes turned
dazzling white
as no eyes
on earth
had
ever
seen.
O Christ,
take us to your mountain.
Transform all our acts,
our very being,
into your
love.
“We are all walking around
shining like the
sun.”
Let us see it.
Let us
glimpse your glory.
In beauty
in skies and
flowers and butterflies,
in a happy
child’s face, in
music that our souls sing,
in joyful folks helping other folks.
quote: : Thomas Merton
THE FIRST READING
Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Then he reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the Lord’s messenger called to him from heaven,
“Abraham, Abraham!”
God asked the terrible of him!
But Abraham recalled
God’s promise.
From
Sarah,
descendants
would come from him
as many as the stars in heaven.
Gripping the knife in hand,
holding it very tightly,
and more tightly
to God’s strict
Promise,
he made ready
with trust,
to
follow.
O
God,
help us trust
that you will help us
to stop the sacrifice of our
brothers and sisters, and our earth.