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Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him up a high mountain and was transfigured before them, [his garments] becoming so dazzlingly bright that they were “whiter than the work of any bleacher could make them” (Mark 9:2-10). . . .
On the transfigured face of Jesus, a ray of light which he held within shines forth. This same light was to shine on Christ’s face on the day of the resurrection. In this sense, the transfiguration appears as a foretaste of the paschal mystery.
The transfiguration invites us to open the eyes of our hearts to the mystery of God’s light, present throughout salvation history. At the beginning of creation, the Almighty had already said: “Fiat lux—let there be light!” (Genesis 1:3), and the light was separated from the darkness. Like the other created things, light is a sign that reveals something of God: it is, as it were, a reflection of his glory which accompanies its manifestations. When God appears, “His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand” (Habakkuk 3:4).
Light, it is said in the…
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