6 August 2024 - Feast of the Transfiguration
Dan 7:9-10.13-14 or 2 Pet 1:16-19; Mt 17:1-9
Homily
This gospel story, generally known as the "Transfiguration", corresponds to a literary style known as the Apocalyptic. It is a style found not only in the last Book of the New Testament, known precisely as the Apocalypse, but also in several passages of the Gospels. The liturgical lectionary for today's feastday quite rightly gives us as its first reading a vision from the Book of Daniel, which is precisely along these lines.