Shining Like the Sun

Is Our Ultimate Birthright Hidden from Ourselves?

August 6 is the feast day of the Transfiguration. Generally regarded as one of the most mystical episodes in the story of Jesus, the transfiguration tells of an intimate moment when Jesus and his disciples Peter, James and John steal away to a mountaintop, where Jesus begins to glow with a brilliant white light, and is joined by apparitions of two of th…