March 1, 2026 - Second Sunday of Lent

Episode 14 February 27, 2026 00:04:31
March 1, 2026 - Second Sunday of Lent
Sundays with Bishop Ken
March 1, 2026 - Second Sunday of Lent

Feb 27 2026 | 00:04:31

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Today's episode of Sundays with Bishop Ken is a reading from The Little Black Book: Lent 2026. The full audiobook experience for this season's book is available on our daily app, as well as on audible. Don't wait for Sunday's to remain close to the Lord - set aside six minutes a day to reflect and pray each day with Little Books.

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[00:00:00] Foreign. [00:00:06] Welcome back. It's March 1st, while it's officially the second Sunday of Lent. There are almost five weeks remaining in Lent. [00:00:26] When the artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, died. He left behind one final painting. [00:00:35] It was called the Transfiguration. [00:00:38] He never finished it, but many people, including Raphael himself, believed it was his finest work. [00:00:47] The painting depicts two biblical scenes. [00:00:50] the top is the Transfiguration. [00:00:53] A radiant Jesus is pictured atop Mount Tabor with Moses and Elijah on either side of him. [00:01:01] At the bottom is a boy tormented by a demonic presence, and the apostles are struggling to help him. [00:01:10] Only when the glorified Christ appears is the child healed. [00:01:16] In the painting, heaven and earth meet. [00:01:19] The top reveals the glory of heaven, while the bottom depicts the pain of our fallen world. [00:01:27] Jesus makes heaven present on earth. [00:01:31] Raphael died on Good Friday in 1520 before he could finish the painting. It was on display during his funeral Mass and now it hangs in the Vatican Museum. [00:01:51] Lets reflect on today's Gospel reading on the Transfiguration. [00:02:00] It tells me more about something that happened to the three disciples than something that happened to Jesus. [00:02:07] Peter, James and John had a prayer experience. [00:02:11] Their faith caused them to see this man with whom they had walked and fished and eaten for who he really was. [00:02:19] They could not quite put their experience into words, so they used the imagery of faces radiant as the sun, clothes dazzling, a bright cloud. [00:02:44] Such prayer experiences are very much part of our tradition. [00:02:49] Each of us has those experiences at different times in prayer, when we just feel the presence of God and we can't quite describe it in words. [00:03:01] It's very powerful and sometimes called a mystical experience. [00:03:08] Almost always we need a mountain in order to experience the Lord. [00:03:15] A place where it is quiet and still. [00:03:19] A place where there aren't many people and we can experience Him. [00:03:26] Compare this mountain experience and the Last Supper. [00:03:31] At the Last Supper, the disciples sang songs and talked and spent time together. [00:03:38] Jesus washed feet and they shared a meal and they argued a little and they left. [00:03:48] We need to experience both kinds of prayer in our tradition. [00:03:53] The supper room where we gather, sing and figuratively wash feet, and the quiet of the mountaintop, especially during Lent, Spend some quiet time with the Lord.

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