[RCL] Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99 or 99:5-9; 2 Peter 1:13-21; Luke 9:28-36 Many a faithful summer church attendee might be surprised to arrive to worship today, supposing that the green vestments and paraments must have gotten stuck at the dry cleaner’s, only to realize that the Feast of the Transfiguration, which is fixed on August…

[RCL] Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99 or 99:5-9; 2 Peter 1:13-21; Luke 9:28-36 [God] spoke to them out of the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies and the decree that he gave them. O Lord our God, you answered them indeed (Psalm 99). Amen. The setting of today’s reading from Luke, the Transfiguration, is visually balanced, the…

In the Transfiguration, Peter, James, and John saw Jesus a little more for who he is – as we say in the Creed: “God from God, Light from Light.” The letter to Peter’s church and the Gospel of Luke both describe what the disciples saw, because it is important for us as the church, as…