Reflection for 2nd Sunday of Lent-B

In today’s Gospel we heard Peter, James and John experienced something of extraordinary: Transfiguration of Jesus – Change in His appearance.

So many times we want to change our appearance. We would go through so many inconveniences to discipline ourselves to go to gym few times a week to work out; some of us would get up from bad very early in the morning to go for a walk, or for jogging before work. And we would discipline ourselves because we want to stay healthy, because we want to change our appearance.

In today’s Gospel we can see Peter, usually the wise guy, hardly know what to say. And if we would read Chapter 8 we would see that only six day earlier Peter declared Jesus as the Messiah, The Son of the leaving God. And during that time Jesus instituted the sacrament of reconciliation.

Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Jesus knew that we need spiritual change, spiritual transfiguration.

During this time of Lent, time of preparation for Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection, we can discipline ourselves, in order to change appearance of our soul. We can do various things to achieve that change of our soul. We can keep our promises which we started at the beginning of this Lent. We can pray together as family, as friends.

My brothers and sisters, as we heard in our second reading: “if God is for us, who can be against us?”, however first we have discipline ourselves to transfigure our soul, so on our part we can be with God. Because if we will be in state of grace, if we will do everything possible to be with God, I assure you God for sure will be with you.

So let’s make every effort to be with God more than one hour per week. “If God is for us, who can be against us.”