The Transfiguration (Matt 17:1)

So here's what came to me at adoration this morning. I was praying the luminous mysteries, and when I got to the fourth, I was thinking "boy, if the world could only see You [referring to Jesus in the Real Presence of the Eucharist] as Peter, James and John saw You during the Transfiguration". Then, as I was looking at the Presence, I thought of the word "Transubstantiation". Really, it just "popped" into my head.

So that was the message: the Real Presence is our version of the Transfiguration, and the Lord Jesus is transfigured, showing the glory of God the Father, but this time in the form of a host of bread. Now this isn't what we would ordinarily call glory, but then neither would we identify the cross as glorious. Unless we see it with new eyes.

My eyes got a little newer this morning.