Getting Our Attention

The testimony of Peter concerning his experience of the witness of the voice of God proclaiming Jesus as Beloved Son is at the centre of texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today, the feast of the Transfiguration. The description of the mountaintop experience from the Gospel of Mark may be a reminder to many believers of moments of spiritual ecstasy during which understanding and clarity beyond the ability of human words and imagery  to describe is experienced.  Spiritual ecstasy takes many forms. The tears flowing down the face of people in prayer, the dancing and rejoicing of worship and procession and the stillness invoked by awe and wonder are transcendent times when the Gospel episode and the visions from the Book of Daniel resonate with our own experience of God getting our attention.