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  • Every Round Goes Higher, Higher! – A Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent

    03/16/2014 2:06:07 AM PDT · by markomalley · 3 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 3/15/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    The second Sunday of Lent always features the transfiguration. This is done in the first place because we are following the Lord on his final journey to Jerusalem, and this journey up Mt. Tabor was one of the stops that Jesus himself made with Peter, James, and John.It is commonly held that Jesus did this to prepare his apostles for the difficult days ahead. There’s a line from an old spiritual that says, Sometimes I up, sometimes I’m down, sometimes I’m almost on the ground…..but see what the end shall be. And this is what the Lord is doing here;...