On the Mountain
of the Transfiguration, God speaks from the cloud, as he had done on Sinai. But
now he says: “This is my beloved Son; listen to him” (Mk 9:7). He
commands us to listen to his Son, because “no one knows the Father except the
Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Mt 11:27).
And so we learn that the true name of God is FATHER! The name which is beyond
all other names: ABBA! (cf. Gal 4:6). And in Jesus we learn
that our true name is SON, DAUGHTER! We learn that the God of the Exodus and
the Covenant sets his people free because they are his sons and daughters,
created not for slavery but for “the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom 8:21).
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