fathersullivan.com: We too, by gazing at God, can be transformed into his image.
We too, by gazing at God, can be transformed into his image.
In the First Reading Paul brought us back to the story of how Moses, from gazing fixedly at God, became God-like, so that his face shown.
In the story from Exodus, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, his face glowed so with God’s glory, that it frightened the people; and Moses had to cover his face with a veil.
Paul says we can all be so transformed like that. We, by staring fixedly on God, either in moments of prayer, or in God’s world around us.
Paul was writing for a Greek audience that had long turned away from the fictitious gods of Olympus. Instead, they worshiped God throughout nature, as some people today worship only what they call Mother Nature. Their name for God in Nature was the Logos, or, in English, the Word.