Here is today's sermon, Transfiguration Sunday, Year A, August 6, 2023. It is based on the account of the Transfiguration in Luke 9; 28- 36. I begin to describe the Transfiguration as a glimpse of the Beatific Vision described by Aquinas and Dante, and also in a movie with Nicholas Cage (yes, Nicholas Cage!). From there, I pivot from being redeemed by seeing the right thing to being redeemed by seeing rightly. I use the quote from Saint Exupery, "We see rightly with the heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye", and Iris Murdoch's definition of love as "The nonviolent apprehension of the other as other". I show that we are redeemed by loving others by allowing them to be themselves and not trying to mold them into our expectations.

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