What we are is hidden in Christ. Our glory is what is finally the truth about us, love and light in Christ. It’s what was revealed there on Mount Tabor, our destiny in God.

In the Catholic Church on the second Sunday of Lent, we’re bid to think of the Transfiguration, to contemplate Christ in brilliant glory, talking with Moses and Elijah. The disciples saw it just for a moment, just as we think on it briefly before moving on toward the cross and toward death. It’s a glimmer of hope meant to carry us through the darkness of Good Friday.

And it’s what we ought to remember and believe in the darker moments of life, that there is light and that the light is Christ. The transfiguration of Jesus reminds us that truth is sometimes not evident, but it’s true nonetheless. It reminds us that the bleak darkness we sometimes only see is not what’s only there. The transfiguration is an image of hope meant to transfigure us.

So, hold on to the transfiguration, even in the darkness. Hold on to hope. It’s beautiful how in this season of Lent, still in our dark days, the Church wants us to recall this beautiful miracle. Because it’s a miracle meant for us.