2nd Sunday of Lent: Video, Homilies, Images and Multimedia Slides

The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Second Sunday of Lent (Year C). In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While Jesus was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And a voice from the cloud said, “This is my chosen Son; listen to him.”

READINGS

FIRST READING: Gn 15:5-12, 17-18
PSALM: Ps 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14
SECOND READING: Phil 3:17—4:1 or 3:20—4:1
GOSPEL: Lk 9:28b-36

VIDEO

The video below can be downloaded here. If you don’t know how to download videos from YouTube then follow this link to watch a tutorial.

Other relevant videos can be found here and here.

HOMILIES

• Matching Face and Heart [www.bible.claret.org]
  The face of Jesus always showed who he truly was. On Tabor he was the divine Son of God; in Gethsemane he was a frightened human being whose face sweated blood as he was denied even human companionship. To be Christians we are called to be who we truly are; God touched but frail. Sometimes we have a glimpse of our being God touched. More often we are all too aware of our frailness. Read more…
• Jesus Transfigured in Glory [dailyscripture.net]
  What can blind us or keep us from recognizing God’s glory in our lives? Sin and unbelief for sure! Faith enables us to see what is hidden or unseen to the naked eye. Through the eyes of faith Abraham recognized God and God’s call on his life. He saw from afar not only what God intended for him, but for his descendants as well – an everlasting covenant of friendship and peace with the living God. Abraham is the father of faith because he put his hope in the promises of God. Faith makes us taste in advance the light of God’s glory when we shall see him face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12) as he is (1 John 3:2). Read more…
• Second Sunday of Lent [www.catholicmatters.com]
  “Lord, it is good for us to be here,” it is wonderful to be adopted sons of God on the road back to our Father. It is wonderful to be assured that in death this body of ours with its pains and aches, its attraction to earthly things and worse still its propensity to sin, will give place to a glorified body. This glorified body will be free from all pain and corruption and will possess all the human spiritual gifts of intelligence and will to so much greater a degree as will enable us to appreciate and enjoy the eternal happiness in store for us. Read more…

SLIDE PRESENTATION

The following presentation can be downloaded here.

GOSPEL TOON

By ReverendFun

IMAGES

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CLIPART