Imaginative Contemplation

The Transfiguration

Ignatius of Loyola · 1491–1556

On a high mountain, his face shines like the sun, and the Voice says: listen to him. Climb with the three friends, let the light reach you, and feel his hand: rise, and have no fear.

St Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (composition of place, §47; colloquium, §54). Scripture: Matthew 17:1–8, World English Bible.