The Exodus and the Transfiguration

Today is Transfiguration Sunday when we remember and celebrate the events related in the reading from Luke’s Gospel today.  In this reading, Jesus takes Peter, John, and James up to a mountain to pray (Luke 9:28-36).  

To put it in some context, this event occurs eight days after Peter had confessed Jesus as the Christ, which starts in verse 18 of this chapter from Luke.  At that time, Jesus was praying alone and then he asked his disciples, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”  And his discipl...