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<b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel recounts the story of the Transfiguration</b></span>. Here the
glorified Jesus represents the fulfillment of the Old Testament
revelation, symbolized by Moses, representing the law, and Elijah,
representing the prophets.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Let’s
look at the two basic divisions.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God gave the Torah, the law, to his
people, in order that they might become a priestly people, a holy
nation, a people set
apart, in the hopes that they would then function as a sort of magnet to
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the rest of the world</span></span>.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>But <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the law</span> didn’t take.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>From the very
beginning,<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the peopl</span>e turned away from </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>its dictates</b></span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> and became as bad
as the nations around them.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>And
then the prophets. Over and again we hear the call to be faithful to
the Torah, to follow the ways of the Lord.</b></span> The prophets turn on Israel
itself repeatedly, reminding her of her sinfulness.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>And
then came Jesus, God and man</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus</b></span> did what no hero of Judaism had
ever done:<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> fulfilled the law, remained utterly obedient to the demands
of the Father, even to the point of laying down his life. He brought the
Torah and the prophets thereby to fulfillment.</b></span></span></b><br></span></b></b><br>
Reflect: <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>Think of an experience of great joy </b></span>that caused you to want to
make time stand still, just like St. Peter wanted to do at the
Transfiguration by building tents. <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>Where was <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God</span> in your experience? </b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>
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