•I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore. (Genesis 22:27)
•He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? (Romans 8:32)
•And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. (Mark 9:2b)
•Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them. (Mark 9:8)

 

•Is there any part of God that God will withhold from those who love him?
•How have you experienced the love of God or God’s loving presence?
•Is it possible to stay at the mountaintop experience of Jesus indefinitely?
•Is it possible to hold Jesus’ loving presence with you always?

“The Word was made flesh.” (John 1:14) These words give expression to that heavenly mystery and that admirable sacrament, that magnificent work of infinite kindness which consists in the fact that the eternal God has humbly bent down and lifted the dust of our nature into unity with his own person. (St. Bonaventure)<sup>1



1</sup>Short, William J., Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition, Orbis: New York 1999, p. 44.