Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of listening to spiritual guidance and following a moral path.
Pope Francis highlights the significance of the Transfiguration as a moment of divine revelation and encouragement for believers to heed the teachings of Jesus. The call to listen and follow suggests a commitment to faith and understanding that leads to spiritual growth and transformation.
In practice
In a sermon on the importance of faith, a pastor might quote Pope Francis to encourage the congregation to listen to Jesus.
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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