Guest House Daily Reflections

For Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit mystic and scientist, the Transfiguration is “the most beautiful mystery of Christianity” because it expresses everything that he believed in and hoped for: human beings and all creation transfigured and made “Christlike,” with divinity shining through ordinary men and women and everything in the created world.  Have I caught something of this “beautiful mystery” in Christ and myself through  prayer and contemplation?  Do I let myself be transfigured by it?