Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday, Year A, August 6, 2023

Here is today's sermon, Transfiguration Sunday, Year A, August 6, 2023. It is based on the account of the Transfiguration in Luke 9; 28- 36. I begin to describe the Transfiguration as a glimpse of the Beatific Vision described by Aquinas and Dante, and also in a movie with Nicholas Cage (yes, Nicholas Cage!). From there, I pivot from being redeemed by seeing the right thing to being redeemed by seeing rightly. I use the quote from Saint Exupery, "We see rightly with the heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye", and Iris Murdoch's definition of love as "The nonviolent apprehension of the other as other". I show that we are redeemed by loving others by allowing them to be themselves and not trying to mold them into our expectations.