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The Word–Fr Tony Percy–Slowly But Surely Transfigured (Fr Tony Percy says that this week we're being invited to see the mystery of Christ, to understand and encounter the mystery of Christ. A mystery is something you believe graciously with a specific gift we call faith and then you try and live the mystery. We have the beautiful event of the transfiguration of Christ. His whole persona is seen, his whole divine persona in and through his human nature manifests itself like a foretaste of the resurrection. In Romans 12, Paul sets up all the theology of the whole mystery of Christ. Then he says, this is the way we're supposed to live. Paul says we are being, through our offering of ourselves to God, we are being transfigured into the glory of God, slowly but surely. So not immediately like Jesus, but slowly but surely. At the beginning of this particular passage today it says that Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John. That's the same idea for us. We've got to let Jesus take us so that over time, over the