{"id":175633,"date":"2025-08-05T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=175633"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:37:16","slug":"divine-but-not-always-dazzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/divine-but-not-always-dazzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine but not always dazzling"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"175633\" class=\"elementor elementor-175633\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63572ad1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63572ad1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13b6ecba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13b6ecba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Dear Friends in Christ,<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><br \/>August 6 is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, that surrealistic scene in the Gospels where Jesus takes three of the apostles up a mountain, radiates a dazzling glow, and interacts with Moses and Elijah.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mix of the extraordinary and the ordinary: Jesus shows a glimpse of his hidden divinity while engaging in what seems like a casual chat with two titans of the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, of course, God acts in ways that don\u2019t overwhelm us.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than brilliant displays of force, such as parting the Red Sea, Our Lord prefers to work in understated, quiet ways.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of his beneficence all around us: in the small favor done by a neighbor, in the medical test that signals a clean bill of health, in the news that a loved one returned to confession after 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>This is the landscape of love that we can see with the eyes of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Why do so many people miss it? In part, because they let the world wear them down with a constant barrage of bad news.<\/p>\n<p>But if we can learn to focus on the many positive words of Jesus \u2014 think of \u201cTake courage, I have conquered the world\u201d (John 16:33) \u2014 we can see everyday life through a new lens.<\/p>\n<p>That lens lets us focus on joy. And joy is one way we show that we believe that God is in charge and that he can bring good out of any situation.<\/p>\n<p>To go deeper into the meaning of the Transfiguration, check out our\u00a0Retreat Guide on that mountaintop incident with Jesus:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/anchored-in-light-a-retreat-guide-on-the-transfiguration-of-the-lord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Anchored in Light: A Retreat Guide on the Transfiguration of the Lord<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we don\u2019t experience him in dazzling ways, we can be sure of his loving hand in our lives by the little gifts he constantly sends our way.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Father Edward McIlmail, LC<br \/><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/ask-a-priest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask a Priest contributor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends in Christ, August 6 is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, that surrealistic scene in the Gospels where Jesus takes three of the apostles up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":175642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3004,6616,3001],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-175633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regnum-christi-news","category-weekly-message","category-news-article"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith &amp; Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175633"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=175633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}