Today’s festival is a bridge between the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany cycle that comes to a close today and the Lent-Easter-Pentecost cycle that begins this week on Ash Wednesday. On a high mountain, today’s gospel reveals Jesus’ divinity hidden in his humanity as the divine voice says, “This is my Son, my Beloved, with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” Our lives are transfigured and transformed when we listen to him and follow him all the days of our lives.