A Different Persecptive on the Transfiguration of Christ

[quote]Luke is the only one of the Evangelists who begins his account (of the transfiguration) by indicating the purpose of Jesus’ ascent. He went up the mountain to pray (Luke 9:28). It is in the context of prayer that Luke now explains the event that the three disciples are to witness. ‘And as He was praying, the appearance of His face altered, and His clothing became dazzling white’ (Luke 9:29). The transfiguration is a prayer event. It displays what happens when Jesus talks with His Father, the profound interpenetration of His Being with God, which then becomes pure Light. In His oneness with His Father, Jesus is Himself ‘Light from Light’. The reality that He is in the deepest core of His Being, which Peter tried to express in his confession, that reality becomes perceptible to the senses at this moment. Jesus’ Being in the Light of God shows His own divine Being in Light as the Son. – Pope Benedict XVI [/quote]