25 February 2019
OVERCOME WITH AWE. (Mark 9:
14-29)
‘Immediately they saw him the whole crowd was overcome with awe’.
Why this sudden comment in the midst of the ongoing narrative? Jesus has just come down the mountain of the
Transfiguration but only Peter, James and John had the glimpse of him in glory. There was something about Jesus that attracted
people. We can reflect because we
know who he was. They could only say, in
another place, ‘God has visited his people’ but even so they hardly knew what
that meant. But we do. God walked among them and they could not help realising
that there was something ‘awesome’ about him, something so attractive that
crowds came from everywhere to see him.
What the Church, that is us, does today, in a no doubt faulty way, is to
be that presence.
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