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The Mystery of the Transfiguration

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This volume completes a series of meditations on the mystery of Christ in the life of the Church from the preacher to the pontifical household. Fr. Cantalamessa approaches the Transfiguration as a historical event in the life of Christ. An event, he writes, "that is full of salvific significance...that has an exemplary and causative value for the members of his body, the Church." In the introduction the author explains that his goal in this book involves contemplation of Christ: encouraging it, creating a desire for it, and nourishing it "with the powerful revelation of the Bible and some of the most profound insights of the Fathers."

After an opening chapter on the mystagogical approach to the Transfiguration, he devotes three chapters to the "path" up Mount Tabor as described in the synoptic Gospels and the writings of Paul and John. The final three chapters address the divinity and humanity of Christ and the image of Christ for today. Cantalamessa traces the development of Church teaching on Christ as divine and human and as flesh and spirit. At the same time, he calls us again and again to contemplation and to an ever deepening prayer life that opens our hearts and minds to the Spirit.

Father Cantalamessa has been preacher to the Papal household for over 25 years. He is a very gifted speaker and writer. His writings touch deply into the heart, mind and soul.

I will purchase anything by this author! Thanks for selling these books on spirituality I cannot find where I live! Reading it will come later.