Scripture Reflections for Second Sunday of Lent

🙶 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 🙷

Fr. David Goodill. "Citizens of Heaven." Torch. March 7, 2004

🙶 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! 🙷

Fr. Simon Gaine. "Our Commonwealth is in Heaven." Torch. March 11, 2001

🙶 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. 🙷

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. "Second Sunday of Lent." Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. March 13, 2022

🙶 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. 🙷

Fr. Rick Bauer, MM. "Second Sunday of Lent." Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. March 17, 2019

🙶 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. 🙷

Fr. Nicholas Crowe. "Fuel for the Fire." Torch. March 13, 2019

🙶 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 🙷

Fr. Duncan Campbell. "Glowing with God." Torch. February 16, 2016

🙶 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. 🙷

Fr. Aidan Nichols. "The Last Word." Torch. February 28, 2010

🙶 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? 🙷

Fr. Michael Platts. "A Glimpse of What Lies Ahead." Torch. March 4, 2007

🙶 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. 🙷

John Bergsma. "Beginning the New Exodus." The Sacred Page. March 13, 2022

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

Mary Ortwein. "Encountering God." A Catholic Moment. March 12, 2022

🙶 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 🙷

Fr. Timothy Radcliffe. "Dare to be Free." Torch. March 9, 2022

🙶 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. 🙷

Joseph LaCombe. "Listen to Him." A Catholic Moment. March 17, 2019

🙶 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. 🙷

Sr. Mary Grenough, MM. "Second Sunday of Lent." Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. February 21, 2016

🙶 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 🙷

Fr. Benedict Jonak. "Expectant Glory." Torch. February 24, 2013