"Abraham was chosen by God as the founder of a people who would be the means by which God would save the world. His great mark is faith, that is..."

“we must have confidence that if we imitate those who imitate Christ, others will come to imitate us, and no longer live as aliens on this earth but as citizens of heaven”

“We may or may not be people of great privilege, but we might all be clinging to something that keeps us from knowing Christ and the power of his resurrection. Whatever it is, high office or low, count it as nothing besides the true privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as our Lord!”

“people with disabilities or who suffer illness or weakness are often disvalued and discarded. It is a monumental tragedy, and it is the duty of Christians to bear courageous witness to the dignity of life despite ability, age, health status, or any other factor.”

“Notice the difference between what the disciples talked about—the three dwellings (staying)—and what Jesus spoke of—his exodus (moving). This is our choice—a deadly stop, trying to hold on to a past glory, or a Spirit-led journey with the Lord.”

“Christianity is not so much about doing something as becoming someone. It is not primarily about a moral code but the transformation, the transfiguration, of the human person.”

“When we pray – to God – a light must shine in the world of the spirit, and we are transfigured ourselves, and in such majestic company”

“The message to us of this Gospel in its unlikely Lenten context is that the last word in the struggle of the Christian life does not in fact lie with struggle...the last word lies with seeing the glory of God.”

“Jesus is in the world today, in his Church, in you and me. Can the world around us see something of the glory of Christ in our lives?”

“before Jesus there was the Law and the prophets; Moses and Elijah. Things were pretty clear-cut and simple. It was written in stone or they had said it...But after Jesus our goodness and life becomes about a relationship with God directly and that means that things that seem to be written in stone may no longer be that way.”

"Brooke Prentis is a Wakka Wakka woman and an Aboriginal Christian Leader. She is the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as the CEO of a national Christian organisation in..."

"There are moments in life when we sense that there is something more real, important and enduring than anything we normally experience. The story of the Transfiguration is a moment..."

"The startling event of the Transfiguration displays a model of prayer. The mountain represents the place of Divine encounter, the radiance of the Lord displays the interior life of the..."

“At the Transfiguration, the glory is visible. At Calvary, the glory is hidden under humility and sacrifice. Yet the greatest glory of God is his mercy, his self-gift of love. The Cross is the glory of Christ and the glory of Christians, since it signifies the ultimate self-gift of God.”

“Jesus talked to Moses and Elijah. Peter spoke to Jesus. There was active verbal exchange. Encounters with God are not passive experiences.”

“I may long for that infinity of love which is God’s own life, but also fear its fire; I thirst for God’s unbounded freedom but freedom is frightening”

“We have to converse with God. We have to take time and stop – look up to the Heavens, climb the mountain, or look out at the sea and just marvel. We have to take the time, wherever we are at, and get away and go on a mini-retreat – and let Jesus speak to us. Let Him transform us.”

“Science has developed to such a degree that counting the stars of the sky is more possible than it once was – but do these new discoveries deepen our faith? The more we learn, the more we realize that there is so much we don’t know.”

“The true prize of our lives begins in the Resurrection, the transformation of ‘our lowly body after the pattern of Christ’s own glorious body’, and achieves its fullness and rest in the vision of God, face to face”

"Friends, all three of our readings for the Second Sunday of Lent emphasize the transcendent world, the goal of all our religious striving. St. Paul speaks of how the Lord..."

"The readings for this second Sunday of Lent awaken a sense of wonder, of a world beyond ours, a mystical consciousness. In the first reading with Abraham and in the..."

"We have a God of adventure, a God who is always out ahead of us. Faith, in the Biblical sense of the term, is not primarily the acquiesence to propositions;..."

"We Christians, as Paul reminds us, have our citizenship in heaven. This means that, here below, we are “resident aliens,” at work in the world, but our eyes fixed on..."