TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS

From my Spiritual Diary

                        The Transfiguration of Jesus

How infinitely splendid you look,

my glorious Lord Jesus Christ !

I am ecstatic in my wonderment.

Powerful, glorious, transcendent, ineffable.

And it is your nature as God the Son:

God as he beholds himself, knows himself

in one eternally present act of self-possession.

But God-as-he-knows-himself is going to pass,

go across (‘trans’) from one self-knowledge to another –

an emptying, shattering, utterly crushing self-knowledge.

Here I break down and weep,

and I raise my heart to you, my dearest Lord,

for the way you emptied yourself so that

you can meet me

in my brokenness and misery.

Fr. Mervyn C.

6^th. August 2008