he says pray amen
jesus took peter james and john off by themselves with them with him and lead them up a high mountain
he was transfigured before their eyes and his clothes became dazzling one wider than the work of any bleacher could make them
elijah appeared to them along with moses the to work and conversation with jesus
then peter spoke to jesus rabbi how good it is for us to be here that is a wreck rectory boots on the site one for you one for moses and one for elijah
he hardly knew what to say but they were all overcome with awe
a cloud came and overshadowed them and out of the cloud of voice this is my son my beloved listened to him
suddenly looking around they no longer saw anyone with them only jesus
as they were coming down the mountain and strictly enjoying them not to tell anyone what they had seen before the son of man had risen from the dead
they kept this word of this to themselves though they continue to discuss what to rise from the dead meant
my sisters and brothers the gospel of the war

while if you didn't catch my name at the introduction it's father john powell and i'm a commodities benedictine monk from new commodity hermitage and big sur california
and maybe some of you are not aware that we've been gradually establishing a bond of friendship between our hermitage in this parish community
so i think it was advent of ninety five i was here for several days giving some add that talks and then the following lent of ninety six father daniel cane and and gave the parish mission here and then last add that you had our triple whammy father arthur father daniel and brother cyprian who
gave a concert here and a book can get fair show and and talks on advent and so now i'm back and following them and and it's wonderful this bond of friendship we're establishing between these our community in your community and i wanted to begin by reading a letter from our superior father robert hale addressed to all the peru
missions
dear friends of st philip's parents
it is with joy and deep gratitude that we here at the hermitage thank god for the bond of friendship between our two communities it is our hope that this bond will continue to grow and strengthen as we support one another along the christian journey
we are in a special way united with you in prayer as you begin your parish lantern renewal
we send to you as our representative father john powell at me and pray that he may be god's instrument of brace for you at this time both as individuals and as a parish community
know that we stand with him in your presence seeking god's choicest blessings for you as together we journey with joy and longing towards easter
yours and price robert hale
to me that this letters important and i want to convey to st philip's paris the sense that i'm not just coming as the lone ranger or some kind of wild maverick you know who's gonna waltz in and out of your lives here but i represent an entire community of twenty seven monks and
and they're gonna be on their knees every moment that i'm here they're going to be praying for us and for the grace that you need to receive and that i need to receive in the in these next four five days that the lord is offering to us and and it's for me that's a great source of encouragement and strength to know that i'm not alone
own in this that a whole community is behind me and supporting with prayer and prayers that mysterious kind of force isn't it we don't quite know how it works but it does sort of change people and the changes situations and so i really believe that the prayer of the monks that each one of them promise me they would do or us is somehow
going to impact this community in these next days
do you know what a parish mission is well if you participated last year or any previous years you might have some idea i wanted to just say a few words from my own point of view what is a parish mission well it's sort of like a parish retreat not everybody has the opportunity or the love
three to go away most times people go away on a retreat they leave the familiar and go to some quiet remote place like our place of big sur but since most people or many people can avail themselves of that opportunity what emission is is like a retreat that comes to you comes to the parish community and and that means you
have to sort of enter into the dynamics of the retreat and probably it's more of a challenge since you're not withdrawing from your ordinary schedules and routines and how do you do something different to accentuate and to clearly mark out these days as parish mission for all of you and one of the ways of courses by coming to each of the talks
monday tuesday wednesday and thursday but even more than that i don't think that's enough to really enter the spirit of a parish mission on your own time you've gotta be doing something even if it's taking a word or a thought or phrase or a story that i might tell them my talks and continuing to reflect on it and to chew on them to pray about it may be going to a scrip
your texts that i might have referred to in to talk and going back and praying about it especially our gospel texts which is going to be the theme for the week the transfiguration story
it might mean
spending a little bit more quiet time in these next days and i'm going to be giving little assignments at the end of my talks just little suggestions that maybe by piling up trying to follow those in these days might have help you to enter into the spirit of the parish mission so it's like a time of retreated to the time of soul searching time when we
perhaps examine our lives and where are we add in terms of our christian journey where have we failed and where have we succeeded what our strengths and weaknesses and to deepen our commitment to the christian way of life a deepened our commitment to christ
one of the monk said well are you going to preach fire and brimstone and
in the old old days long before you and i the parish mission tended to be that every parish and land at a parish mission and they would always have a missionary or some piece from some odd addressing strange garb usually black i were white so i'm not as threatening rain i remember when i was a kid missionaries would come and they'd have a
big mission for ah stuck in their belt and it looked like a six shooter and that made me kind of fear for you know what does he going to do with that thing and a lot of times not in every case the preaching style the fire and brimstone and some ways was designed to arouse guilt and people i know one of the signs they used to look for for a successful mission is how long the lines were at the confess
annals well i suppose if you make people feel guilty enough them feel they have to go assuage their guilt be purified of their guilt and go to confession
well that's not the approach to this day and age you know and certainly we invite people to receive the sacrament of reconciliation but it's not to try to get them or force them to guilt if anything the central message of the gospel as love so that should be the fire and brimstone preacher
you know and we have such a hard time don't we each one of us accepting receiving that central mission message that we are thoroughly and unconditionally loved now and for all eternity and we need to keep hearing it don't worry over and over and over again so that's going to be a big part of what my talks are about
the theme that i've chosen for the week is kind of a catchy title i thought anyway it's called bound for glory remember the story of elmer gantry i think that was the title of the film bound for glory while that's about as close as the connection is it's just the titles
that theme comes right out of the gospel if you were listening to the gospel and the account we have today is the gospel of mark so it's his version of the transfiguration story and center central to that story is of course jesus your eyes as you're listening to the story i meant to be drawn towards jesus as he leads the disciples of this
hi mountain and of course central to that is what happens to him something magnificent happens he's transfigured he's transformed into a dazzling light or biblical word for that would be glory
and that's the focal point of my reflection this week
to me that's the center of the story this glory that transfigured jesus but i'd go even further than that i think that central to mark's gospel what is this glory that transfigured jesus and i would go even further and say that central to all four gospels that central to the new testament and we could even say it's
what is this glory
and it's important we know what that lawyers and that we ponder what that glorious and that we chew on that message of glory
when you hear the word glory what you usually think about what picture comes into your imagination into your mind
every one of us i think has some idea of what glory is what we think we know what gloria's perhaps we think of olympic glory back that word is often associated with the olympics visited in advertising and the coverage that we see on television we think of
all the sacrifice the many years of self sacrifice and grueling training of these athletes and finally that moment of glory after many minor competitions they reach the olympics and they struggled through the competition and maybe they win the gold and they're standing on that platform in the middle and the gold medal round their neck and
their national anthem is played and their flag that rises to the to the ceiling of the auditorium maybe that's what you and i think of when we think of glory
or maybe we think of wealth and riches
maybe that's what we think of when we think of lauren remember the wedding of prince charles and lady di is very glorious wasn't of and glittering with diamonds and jewels and fantastic
maybe that's what we think of when we think that blowing or so much for that lauren
are you remember the movie glory and what that movie put forth has glorious what courage and self sacrifice and heroism in the face of babel and death as a kind of glory
maybe we think of that when we think of glory or maybe we think of some of the greatest cathedrals in the world and they were actually built to what give a sense of awe and glory so the people who went inside of them are looked at them from a distance places like what note netro diamond and france or also in paris the same show
pale and a beautiful stained glass window or maybe st peter's so huge that dwarfs the human person and you think of this marvelous glory maybe we think of there or maybe we think of nature when we think of glory like
a glorious sunrise or glorious sunset or maybe one of those rare double rainbows that you sometimes see in your life
what i'm suggesting as we begin this mission and this exploration of glorious before we even begin to scratch the surface of what is jesus as glory we first have to look at what are our own experiences our own notions of laurie our own prejudices what we think laurie is
and what does the gospel telling us lawyer because obviously there's glory and there's glory
not everything that we might think or perceived to be glory is true glory
this past summer and early fall i was in italy attending some meetings of our order and i was there seven weeks and also a good long state the meetings were three weeks that left me time to visit all our monasteries and hermitage as throughout italy and to see some of the wonderful sites in italy to go to florence and of course wrong and name
apples and pompeii and i saw many glorious things you know even the ancient buildings were glorious and you can only imagine what they were like fully restored in their heyday and probably the greatest building of course the st peter's you know it's so magnificent and the artwork as well as the the sistine chapel and i saw the guy
glorious work of which is now fully restored of michelangelo marius and then i got to go to a cz and i saw the wonderful basilica there and all the jocko paintings which are glorious along the upper church and then more and the vaulted lower church and then finally i went down below that to the tomb of st francis
which was very powerful than and its own way i kind of glory emanated from there i spent time there praying that by i took the bus from the old city which is on the hillside down to the valley where you have the new city of a cz there's also a cathedral there as well but i was going to visit and you take a bus i was on a ten minute bus ride and
the bus stops at various points and it stopped in this little old italian lady got on the bus and she happened to sit right beside me
and were driving along and cause i'm not contemplating all these wonderful sights glorious things that i've seen and she sneezes
now i know basic italian i knew enough to know what do you say when an elderly italian woman needs so i looked through her and i said something and she turned towards me
with that a magnificent expression on her face and this light in her eyes and said grassley
and there was something about the meeting of her eyes
that was more glorious than everything i had seen the movie
and after it was journaling about it i couldn't understand why why was i so moved and struck by that encounter why did that seem more real and more genuine and more spirit-filled and all those other beautiful glorious building and why did that last
why was that a lasting memory for me more than anything else
so there's glory and there's glory it reminded me my encounter with her of my first encounter with mother teresa back in the early seventies i was studying theology and washington d c and she was at the national shrine the national cathedral of the immaculate conception a glorious building in itself and she was dwarfed this little old woman she was in her sixties that
and kind of bent over and the the sacristy is where she was escorted to in order to greet people who want to meet her the sacristy was larger than this church give you some idea of how big this places so there's this little figure there and i was i knew the sacristan so i was third in line for meter and taking our hand and seeing her wrinkled face
face even then it was very wrinkled but the light in her eyes and the radiance of her face was exactly the same thing that i saw in the face of the eyes of that italian woman there was a kind of glory about her
that was encased in a very all yet an ordinary human being
what is this glory
that the disciples witness on the mount of transfiguration weapons this glory that takes hold of jesus and transfigured him
what was this glory but i saw and that italian elderly italian woman or a mother teresa
and have you ever had any glimpses of true glory and do we know the difference between true glory and false glory
think i think for a minute can you remember any glimpses of true glory and your life that's my first assignment to you in parish mission to spend some time thinking about what is true glory and i've ever had a glimpse of a member in the story today that the of get a glimpse that's usually what we get is just glimpses it's very import
to pay attention to those glimpses because they're trying to reveal was a truth a deep truth and jesus as glorious important for us because you and i are bound for that same morning we are made for that same glory but not for the balls kind of glory that we so often get caught up in
so what is this true glory that we are bound for his glory of jesus if i had any glimpses of it that might be clues that might give me insight and direction for my life it seems to me that true glory changes and transforms us in some way it's not just kind of
out of jewels or outer clothing or out of six outer success that we might were kind of on a superficial exterior way there's there's an inner quality to true glory as well as an outer manifestation and there's a power to change and transform transformers in some way even in jesus we saw that boy changes and then transforms him
and makes them what white some translation say translucent which means what clear
totally clear and not murky not cloudy not divided
but clear clear and simple and through with integrity
there's something lasting about law even though in this life we get only brief glimpses of something lasting about it so as you think about this until tomorrow
the next talk will explore this more deeply ponder have you had any glimpses of this to kind of flooring
the title of the talks this week the first one tomorrow is going to be more on this first thing that i'm introducing now bound for glory and we're going to scratch beneath the surface and try to see what is this glory that transfigured jesus
the second tuesday will be the road to glory what was jesus as road to glory what is our road to glory the third will be obstacles along the road to glory what do we keep tripping over on the road to glory and the last will be awakening to glory how do i awakened to this flooring that is mine and geezer
as price
another way of putting that is listening to jesus that's how i do it and if you remember in the story after the cloud the parts there's only jesus that the disciples see and the voice tells them this is my beloved son listen to him so listening to jesus seems to be very important in terms of our journey to maurie
join me at the end of bath when seeing you will give you the times and i think it's listed in the bulletins so do all you can't join me i think it's a powerful message that we have to explore the very positive message and central to the gospel and the christian life god listening
but
jesus took peter james and john off by themselves with him and lead them up a high mountain
he was transfigured before their eyes and his clothes became dazzling white wider than the work of any bleacher could make them
elijah appeared to them along with moses the to were in conversation with jesus
then peter spoke to jesus rabbi how good it is for us to be here that is a wreck three booths on this site one for you one for moses and one for elijah
he hardly knew what to say what they were all overcome with awe
the cloud came overshadowing them and out of the cloud of boy this is my son my beloved listen to him
suddenly looking around they no longer saw anyone with them only jesus
as they were coming down the mountain he strictly enjoined them not to tell anyone what they had seen before the son of man had risen from the dead
so they kept this word of his to themselves though they continue to discuss what to rise from the dead men
my sisters and brothers the gospel of boudoir

well as monsignor set in the introductions beginning of our liturgy my name is father john powell and i'm a commodities benedictine monk from the hermitage new commodity hermitage a big sur california that beautiful place along the rugged coast there and
some of you may may know that we've been building up a kind of bond of friendship between he munched there and this parish community and were at the hermitage were really happy for this
i think it began in advent of ninety five i came and gave a series of talks in the mornings and evenings on an admin theme and then the following lent of ninety six by the daniel came and gave your parish mission and then last december
advent of ninety six the triple whammy father daniel
father arthur and brother cyprian who gave his concert here with all of our books and gifts came to share an event called advent awakenings and so now i'm back again and we continue to build this bond of friendship and to share with you or to show you how much that means to us i want to read a letter that are superior father
robert hale has written as we now kick off our parish mission dear friends of st philip's paris
it is with joy and deep gratitude that we here at the hermitage thank god for the bond of friendship between our two communities it is our hope that this bond will continue to grow and strengthen as we support one another along the christian journey
we are in a special way united with you in prayer as you begin your parish length and renewal mission we send to you as our representative father john powell me and pray that he may be god's instrument of brace for you at this time well as individuals and as a parish community
we know that we stand with him know that we stand with him in your presence seeking god's choicest blessings for you as together we journey with joy and longing towards easter yours and prize robert hale
for me this letter is important as we begin the parish mission because for a variety of reasons wanted it helps me to happen perhaps some confidence or some courage knowing that i'm not standing here alone as some lone ranger coming before you but i'm coming from a community of prayer and monks primarily our life as a life of
prayer and so that prayer is behind me and so there's twenty seven months plus myself that are really praying for these next four days or so with you that whatever god's grace is that meant to come into your life as individuals and as a parish community that you might be receptive you might be open to whatever that grace is
and you know we never know what god's grace is for us so we have to just have that openness towards god surprise so there's a whole community praying all week they all promise me that they're going to be praying for us and so we should take hard and take courage in there also it's important because it shows this connection you have with
the amongst their and this friendship that's building between us it's not too often that monasteries have this kind of relationship with a with a parish so we think it's kind of special and we hope you do as well and we hope it continues to grow
so what is a parish mission some of you may know what that is because maybe you participated last year or years previous to this there was a time when every parish every lent always had a parish mission
in the old olden times usually that was a time the style tended to be the fire and brimstone style back one of the monks that are you going to preach fire and brimstone at them and basically what attended to do was around a lot of guilt and people because the measure of a good mission was how long the lines were
at the confessional and the preacher wasn't doing his job if there wasn't a long line i was sort of the litmus test of a good mission and not that certainly i hope these days if you feel led to go to the sacrament of reconciliation great that's wonderful or life it's always about reconciliation but i don't think using guilt as a motive
is necessarily the most positive are helpful thing i would rather use love as a motive and you know i think the message of love is central to the gospel not the message of guilt and we all struggle all the time to receive ever more deeply that message of love because it's very incredible isn't it it's hard to believe that i am love that you are love
one hundred percent unconditionally now and for all eternity by a love we hardly understand it's divine love that's been given to was as we heard in the second reading through the life death resurrection of jesus so i'm not going to be using fire brimstone i'm not going to be churning away at the guilt and new i'm going to be speaking of
about love and that's going to be central to my message
a mission is somehow like a parish retreat you know not everybody has the opportunity or the luxury to go away to a retreat house place like big sur for example and so i retreat comes to a paris so that way more people can be a part of it that's what a parish mission is it is a time for soul searching it's a time of
perhaps renewing and deepening our christian commitment our commitment to christ maybe asking some fundamental questions about our life where are we act wherever we then and where we going as a christian what's on center and whatsapp center so that's part of a parish mission
it's a time of entering more intensely into the journey of lent which were all on as we prepare for easter maybe a time for refocusing our lines but whatever you want to call it it's a time where we shouldn't be going on things as normal things as usual and so one of the ways we try to earmark this time as a special
full time for the parishes we bring in a handsome young priests
and we have him speak at all the masses like a marathon and and then he gives these series of talks they'll be in the mornings and in the evenings monday tuesday wednesday and thursday
but that's not enough from my point of view i would hope that all of you will do something in addition to that to enter into the spirit of the mission i'll be giving little assignments at the end of my reflections each each day as little homework assignments things that maybe you can continue to do or to work on
in between the different presentations as we explore this theme that i've chosen are they might be things for you to take from my talks maybe on a phrase or a word or and idea or a story i told and to continue reflecting on it chewing on and if you keep a journal maybe you're right in your journal i'll be asking some reflection questions at time
ames and my talk to you to take home with you maybe you'll look up a scripture passage that i'll refer to in my talks or the gospel of today which is really the main theme throughout the week you'll go back and spend some time maybe you'll do a little bit more prayer this week whatever it is tried to really enter into the spirit of the parish mission and really earmarked these next five days set them aside
as a special intense time to enter into whatever this grace god is offering this parish
the theme i've chosen i think it's a catchy title bound for glory you may remember the movie on elmer gantry was called bound for glory well that's the only similarity i'm not going they've been doing anything are talking about elmer gantry bound for glory comes right out of our gospel message today
transfiguration according to mark
screech when i read was we know that central to the story of jesus isn't that that's kind of as you're listening the focal point is on jesus and what happens to him on that mountain he gets enveloped transform transfigured by the brilliant light that the bible would call glory
well my question to you as what is this glory what is the glory that took hold of jesus and transfigured him and transformed him
what is that laurie i think it's important that we ask that question that we search the scriptures search our hearts search our own experience to know in a deeper way what is that more because we you and i are bound for the same glory you and i are headed toward that same glory you and i are made for that say
i'm boring so we should know what that glory year but you know we have many notions of what we think gloria
and we have to really try to understand what's true glory and what's false flooring for example when you hear the word glory what do you think about what image comes to your mind and your imagination everyone thinks they know what glory is
perhaps when you hear that word glory you think of what the olympics
olympic glory in fact as it's broadcast covered over television we often hear the book the word laurie associated with the olympics and we think of the athletes to sacrifice and struggle for many many years and finally minor competitions and a major competition and then the olympic competition and then the final moment when maybe they win the gold
metal understanding on the center pedestal and and the gold is around their neck a metal and their national anthem of their country has played on the flag is being raised up in the auditorium maybe that's what we think of what we hear the word glory
or maybe you remember the movie glory about the civil war and that presented glory as what courage self sacrifice heroism in in the face of death in battle maybe that's a kind of glory we think about what we hear the word glory
or maybe we think about the great cathedral
in the world especially in europe these fantastic giant structures of art and architecture and that are simply glorious with these wonderful stained-glass glass windows i remember fourteen years ago being in france and in paris and seeing not radom you know glorious and the sainte chapelle which has the most famous stained-glass windows and if you're there when the light speed
going through it's just you think your and cabinets with boards and recently i was in italy and saw st peter's glorious so maybe we think of these kinds of things when we think the glory or maybe we think of wealth and riches when we think of the word glory remember the some of you may have seen on tv the a wedding of
prince charles and lady di you know really glorious right all the stops were pulled out we see all that that glittering coach that they came in and all and westminster abbey it's as glorious or so much for that glory
we know how that glory turned out
or maybe we think of nature when we take a blurring i think that's true for a lot of us maybe we think about that glorious sunset that we tried to capture with our our our camera or that glorious sunrise or maybe one of those rare double rainbows that you see maybe once in your life maybe one
we hear the word glory we think of that
but it seems to me there's glory and there's glory
not all that we would think or perceive or even experience as glory is true glory the gospel story of the transfiguration is about a glory that the three disciples witness
transfiguring jesus and it's like no other glory they had ever experienced before
and that's why the story found its way in the gospels because it was so different and so outstanding and so there's glory and there's glory maybe we could say there's true glory and there can be a false lorry or temporary glory and we have to know the difference as we're trying to understand what is this glory of jesus
and the transfiguration story that's my glory you know when i was in italy the spall i've visited many glorious places i was there are seven weeks in most people's on a tour spent ten days i was there attending meetings of our order but that only took three weeks so the rest of the time i was visiting all our monasteries you know unusually
monasteries and hermitage is and europe are and beautiful places so there was a lot of glory and nature that i saw and then of course i managed to squeeze in florence and rome and naples and all all those wonderful places and saw glorious things even the ancient
the roman forum and the coliseum even though they're old and only partial partially then you can still see a glorious them and imagine what they were like when they were new and of course st peter's and the sistine chapel i saw the fully restored michelangelo hating in the sistine chapel marvelous blog
areas and i finally got to get to a assisi kind of a glorious place associated with saint francis and the beautiful basilica there and you go into the top level of the church and there's these famous johto paintings murals on the wall loria still vibrant with a lot of color though they are all and then you go down to the next level of the church in there are more
breast goes on the walls and ceilings and then finally down to the tomb of france's and in its own simple way this new iraq which contains the remains of francis there was a kind of glory there too but something strange happened to me i got on the bust and the old city of a season was taking the bus down to the valley below that
for the new city of a he is there's also a large the silica there and i was going down and ten minute bus ride and the bus stops at various points along the way and it stopped at this one point and an elderly italian woman got on the bus and she happened to sit right beside me
i always got a little bit nervous when these things happened because my italian is basic maybe sub basic and i'm afraid they're going to talk to me you know because i can throw a few little greetings out you know so i said do i hope she doesn't engage me in the conversation they'll i'll just be saying c c but anyway she was sitting there and then she sneezed now
and i said i know what to say their yeah so i said salute day and she turned shifted and r c toward me and with this most radiant face and smile and was twinkle in her eyes she said southern thing that maybe she was looking that way because you said i know you're non american you can't fool me but you're so good but there were
something about her faith and the light in her eyes that has remained with me and it's more powerful and my memory than all the glorious places i saw in italy and i'm amazed that that why and i've kept asking myself why was the glory and or face and in our eyes greater than the spa
fantastic human made churches
it reminded me of the time i had met mother teresa at the national shrine of the immaculate conception and washington d c and seventy four she was there to receive an award and this that's a huge place to you've ever been there in a fantastic glorious building she's kind of the work little not as she was under sixties that
bedtime and then they brought it to the sacristy for those who wanted to reaper the sacristy was larger than this church give you some idea of this huge place and there's this little woman and even then she was young only in her sixties when she was already bent over and looked very whether it had a very weathered creased line face and i went up to her and took her hand
as and again i saw the italian woman you know it was that that glow and that light into her her eyes it was the same phenomenon i had seen that italian woman in italy
there is glory and there is glory what is true glory and what is false floor like the disciples each one of us all the time we are getting glimpses of true glory
this true glory that's trying to break through into our lives are into our consciousness into our awareness so that we might awaken to what is true glory which is the glory of the transfiguration transfiguration which is your glory and my glory so my first question to you and my assignment till tomorrow
arrow is what is to glory for you to think about that and have you had any glimpses of true glory in your life would you even know if you did would you know the difference to know what true glory is let me give you a few hints i think true glory transforms us in some way
changes as in some way and so true glory like jesus and the story has a depth to it it's not like just something literally glittery on the surface and you know you remain the same true glory somehow hits us affects us changes that i think also another hit would be true glory has an inner dimension and an
outer dimension
an outer manifestation but an inner reality and that's why it can change us because it can touch and hit at something internal to us something deep in our hearts
i think also true glory as something lasting even though we just get glimpses of it there's a lasting truth or lasting quality while faults glory is passing you know
glory for the semitic people the hebrew people the word glory dockside in greek has a sense of weight and i was always puzzled by that why would you think of something heavy weighty as glory well for then what's real is weighty right as solid true glory is heavy
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its glory has no wait
it has no reality it's illusion and there's a line in one of the psalms where the samosas is as you know the songs or songs and the psalmist says if you were to place in the scales the glory of god and the glory of human beings wealth and power the the scale with human wealth and power it would weigh less than a breath caught the writers
said while god's laurie the boy of the transfiguration that glory that's meant for you and me is wavy glory it's heavy glory it's real glorious substantial laurie
so what is real glory your assignment have you had any glimpses of true glory in your life think of them write them down what inside have they given to you that might help you to understand the transfiguration story a little bit better and a little bit deeper and maybe two
understand your own destiny because you and i are made for this glory that takes hold of jesus and transfigured him we are destined for that same laurie
so this coming week i broken down our reflection for each day into kind of four different themes so tomorrow bound for glory so we're going to be looking more deeply what is this glory see if the scripture gives us any hints that jesus is experiencing and why is that employ
stunt for me the second day will be the road to glory i do you get there how do you get to this glory on you arrive at this point i do you possess this boy what's the road jesus takes that's our road the third night would be obstacles along the way what do we keep tripping over all the time
and our journey to glory and the fourth one the last day will be awakening to glory how well the story tells us the voice says this is my beloved son listen to him so awakening to glory is listening to jesus and he will awaken this
glory in us so i hope you'll join us i hope you'll join me if you don't watch out gotta get yeah
fire and brimstone i thought i'd die
god bless you all