Brass Band Concert with the Potters Bar Town Band
We will welcome this excellent brass band back to OLSG on Saturday 28th February at 7.30 pm for a concert entitled ‘From Grace to Glory’.
Tickets (£10 including interval refreshments) will be on sale this weekend after all masses, thereafter at the Presbytery during reception opening hours.
Please do put this into your social diaries.
This Week
Second Sunday of Lent
1/3/2026
The Transfiguration
The Story of the Transfiguration stands like a sudden blaze of light in the long road toward the cross. On a high mountain—tradition names it Mount Tabor—Jesus is transfigured before Peter, James and John. The Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke tell us His face shone like the sun, his clothes were dazzling white, and beside Him stood Moses and Elijah—law and prophet gathered in radiance. A voice speaks from the cloud: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to Him”. And then it was over.
Lent feels like that mountain and the valley beneath it. We walk through ash and silence, fasting and prayer, yet we are haunted by flashes of glory. The Transfiguration is not an escape from suffering ; it is a revelation within it. Christ does not avoid Jerusalem, he sets his face towards it. The light does not cancel the cross. It reveals its meaning.
Let us stand with the disciples on this mountain – like them, we can be afraid, amazed, confused and wanting to build the tents and stay in the brightness. In other words find a place to escape from the problems of this world. We long to secure transcendence but we haven’t been taught how. To freeze holy moments before they fade without us realising it. But the voice commands not preservation, but attention: Listen.
Lent asks us to descend the mountain. To carry unanswered questions, our cross. To trust that beneath ordinary flesh burns the inapproachable light ( see 1 Timothy 6:16-21)
Let us pray that we may glimpse who Christ is this lent, not only with the mind but with our spirit too. The journey to Easter passes through the Cross, to the glory of the resurrection.
Amen.
With every blessing
Fr Axcel
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