Oh, if only it always would remain ... sermon
Charismatic worship in Vilgertshofen
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
6th August 2011
"Just as it is now, it should always be!"
We say in moments in which we are fine. Then we want to stop
the best time and obtain a piece of eternity in the ephemeral. Detention, which is volatile.
If it would be nice also to keep the high times of life - it is not. Impossible to get it set up.
What remains is the memory of beauty, of joy and happiness.
All this is one of the treasures of our lives, forms and shapes it.
appears comfortable and attractive, is set in pleasant and this Experience to make immortal, but it is impossible.
part of life both pleasant and unpleasant things, the things that we did not like and the situations where we would prefer to avoid it.
Also what does not fit into our concept and what we understand at all, and understand: Pain and suffering, accidents and disasters, for example. The beauty
want to hold on us - we want to escape the unpleasant: to pass it quickly. Just get rid of it.
These are our experiences.
And this experience is where the Gospel.
Peter, James and John are not placed in a totally unusual, predictable situation.
In their way, be with Jesus they have experienced a lot, but what happens now is entirely new.
Jesus takes you on a mountain and then something special happens: Jesus is transfigured before their eyes.
And because this is not enough, Elijah and Moses appear and talk with Jesus. The scenario makes the disciples fear.
More from embarrassment suggests Peter to make three tents: one for Jesus, one for Moses and one for Elijah.
Perhaps this is the attempt to give the light forms a place to stay.
should stay, in space and time to find an apartment. Then there is an increase
Everything so far is preparing Narrated only the backdrop for the revelation of Jesus as the Son of God:
. "This is my beloved Son," God is committed to Jesus.
God recognizes him as his son.
it is clearer not to say that Jesus is God.
his beloved son: that is, to be directly related.
There's nothing in between. It is the direct line, the closest connection.
There is legitimacy: "He's from me! Is divine "
nachgeschoben And:" In listen to him. Your life gets so that a new orientation: Establishes
you for him out! For what he has to say to you is important to you, you is a word to life. "
the Evangelist lived in a patriarchal society.
was that time the father-son relationship a special relationship, they had to do with recognition and legacy.
The son is the future of the Father.
It is the continuation of family history.
listens to nothing and since nothing stops.
seen from the Father:
The Son is the track that you leave in the world.
It is a sign of continuity and confirmation that life goes on. And so the gospel
selects this exact picture, to say that Jesus is the Savior. He is God --- and he can come to salvation.
be taken into into this relationship with the disciples.
This relationship is closer qualified. It is the "beloved son" is mentioned. The special feature is thus the emphasis on love. That's what matters.
The essence of love is to love.
means: hand out love, to give herself to indulge.
"beloved son" - that is the shorthand for LIFE.
For as it is about love - and it deals with the relationship.
life is his in-relation.
to Leen we need the love.
We want to be loved, and we want to give love.
And we need good relations.
and if it is worn-in-relation of his love, it's such a high time of life because we want to keep forever.
And you are: You are the beloved son,
no matter whether you are male or female.
You're the commencement to the Creator God of a loving relationship.
You are willed by Him, just as you are.
That is your inalienable treasure.
This is the foundation of your life.
you are, because you are willed by God, and therefore you must do yourself.
Suddenly it is over, the revelation of the divinity of Jesus, and everything is back to normal.
The disciples and Jesus rising from the mountain. After the peak experience and the high time we return to the normalcy of everyday life. Almost banal.
But again there is a surprise:
Jesus says she can not tell anything about what happened until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.
One suggestion after another: first experiencing the revelation and even then the unknown word "of death".
One still poorly understood, is when the next one. So it is no wonder
that the disciples did not understand and they ask what it means.
Because no one can rise from the dead. This does not work.
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what they have just witnessed, makes it carefully.
close quite so easily it is no longer the seemingly impossible.
Jesus is divine. They have just heard.
And since death is not the end.
If God is life and love - then death is no problem for him.
If God is really God, then its dynamics will always point to resurrection to life.
And this is the second gift of God for you: you can not die, because
God, your Creator, is so vivid that he will not sink into the anonymity of the nothing can.
This has God promised in your creation at the beginning of your life and every moment he receives up on Da-sein.
And he has promised you the gift of baptism, the new creation with the gift of a child of God.
We may hope the glorified nature of the risen Christ and his image to be uniform,
even if we the earthly Jesus are uniformly
and if we share the fate of the poor and despised Jesus
and if we follow him on his way
and if we are also prepared, as he take up the cross for us. The disciples fell
the already heavy.
And so the Lord has empowered them with the sign of his transfiguration.
sing In the preface we are today:
because he revealed on the Mount of Transfiguration of his hidden glory
witnesses chosen before he left his mortal body shine with radiance and gave the disciples the strength to bear the scandal of the cross.
Today's celebration is also a celebration of hope:
He gave the whole church as us, the hope united with its main eternal transfiguration receive.
The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is for us a certainty.
God assures us, makes us safer and our faith.
We prayed in the daily prayer:
Almighty God, at the transfiguration of your only begotten Son, you have confirmed by the testimony of the fathers of the mystery of our faith. You
we've shown what we can expect when our adoption of a child instead of once completed.
And then the prayer:
Help us to listen to the word of your Son so that we will share in his glory.
Now, in this Eucharistic celebration, we hear the word of God and proclaim the Lord's death and resurrection prices - as happens our transformation.
Jesus transforms our lives as we expose ourselves to him.
We can see our lives in a new light.
We can be transfigured, if we abandon ourselves to the dynamics of God.
The Transfiguration of Jesus and the transformation of the gifts of bread and wine and our transformation: this is all work of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of prayer, we pray
:
God our Father, send to us and these gifts the light of your glory that shines upon in your son. It distributes the darkness of sin and make us children of light.
When we celebrate the Eucharist and received, then we are already hinheinverwandelt in the glorified body of Christ.
At the end of Mass we will pray: Let us
by the reception of the heavenly bread of his transfigured body are the same design.
