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Gospel Reflection–Sr Katherine Stone MGL–Beloved Sons and Daughters (Sr Katherine Stone says that the two sons who sit at the centre of today’s readings, Isaac, the son in the first reading and Jesus, the Beloved Son of the second reading and the Gospel point us to a third beloved child—you and me! Most of us struggle to know God as our loving Father and ourselves as beloved sons and daughters. Stories like the one about Abraham and Isaac today, let us know God as our loving Father and ourselves as beloved sons and daughters. The disciples’ experience of the Transfiguration was a crucial moment that helped them to understand that the man, Jesus, wasn’t just another prophet, but God himself come among us. As both God and man, he reveals to us both what God is really like, and who we really are. If we “listen to him”, as today’s Gospel asks us to do, we will notice that every word that he speaks, every miracle, every action, shows us one, or both, of these things. In him, we experience both the compassion of th