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“Lord, Save Me.” Matthew 14:22–33. The disciples row through the night in a storm. Jesus comes to them walking on the water. Peter steps out of the boat. He sinks. The hand reaches immediately. And for the first time, the disciples worship: Truly you are the Son of God.
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration. On a mountain in Galilee, the face of Jesus shone like the sun. Moses and Elijah appeared. A voice spoke from the cloud. The same Jesus who healed the sick and bore the cross blazed with the glory that was always his.
August 6: the Feast of the Transfiguration. The August collect asks not for strength to bear the cross but to behold the King in his beauty, delivered from the disquietude of this world. The Season after Pentecost is long. The mountain appears in the middle of it. Rise, and have no fear.
“He Had Compassion.” Matthew 14:13–21. Jesus withdraws to grieve John’s death and the crowd follows on foot. Compassion moves before will does. Five loaves, two fish, five thousand fed. The only miracle in all four Gospels.
Proper 12. Five Kingdom parables. The mustard seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, the pearl, the dragnet. The first two show how the Kingdom works: in hiddenness, from small beginnings. The middle two show what it is worth: everything. The last one shows what happens at the end.
July 25: Saint James. First among the Twelve to be martyred. Acts 12:2 gives him two verses. The man who was at the Transfiguration, who slept in Gethsemane, who asked for the seat of honor — gone in a subordinate clause. This is what drinking the cup looks like.