As I write it is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, August 6, commemorating when Christ allowed His chief apostles to see a little something of His divine splendour shining forth through the veil of His perfect humanity. Hence, they were strengthened against the terrible trial of faith they would endure in the Passion to come.
Speaking of the Transfiguration, it is also the 40th anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, the Year of the Three Popes. It hardly seems possible that that many years have flown by. It is a good reminder that we should take care to have our own temporal and spiritual affairs in order. Tempus edax rerum... time is the devourer of all things. But, pace Ovid, not of eternal things! Therein let us fix our hearts and let not our hearts be troubled.
