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The Meaning of the Transfiguration: Second Sunday in Lent, by Gayle Somers – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Meaning of the Transfiguration: Second Sunday in Lent, by Gayle Somers

An Incoherent USCCB Intervention on Birthright Citizenship, by Phil Lawler

February 28, 2026

Happy Fertility Awareness Week! Wait. What? by Peter Wolfgang

February 28, 2026

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By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange, Feb. 27, 2026

Gayle Somers is a member of St. Thomas the Apostle parish in Phoenix and has been writing and leading parish Bible studies since 1996. She is the author of three bible studies, Galatians: A New Kind of Freedom Defended (Basilica Press), Genesis: God and His Creation, and Genesis: God and His Family (Emmaus Road Publishing). Her latest book, Whispers of Mary: What Twelve Old Testament Women Teach Us About Mary is available from Ascension Press. Gayle and her husband Gary reside in Phoenix and have three grown children.

Jesus takes His closest friends up a mountain to pray, an action packed with meaning for the Jews. Why?

Gospel (Read Mt. 17:1-9)

The meaning of this Sunday’s Gospel is greatly enriched if we understand the context in which it appears, both within Matthew’s Gospel and the larger story of salvation history. Time spent on this will bear good fruit.

In Matthew 16, after Peter’s confession of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, the apostles get a nasty shock. Jesus tells them that He is destined for suffering and death. When Peter resists, Jesus sharply rebukes him (“Get behind Me, Satan!” in 16:23) for thinking as men do about suffering, not as God does. To men, this kind of suffering for the powerful Son of God would mean weakness, impotence, and failure. Jesus wants to teach the apostles that His suffering and death will be the path to glory. …

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The Meaning of the Transfiguration: Second Sunday in Lent, by Gayle Somers

An Incoherent USCCB Intervention on Birthright Citizenship, by Phil Lawler

Happy Fertility Awareness Week! Wait. What? by Peter Wolfgang

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange, Feb. 27, 2026

Jesus takes His closest friends up a mountain to pray, an action packed with meaning for the Jews. Why?

Gospel (Read Mt. 17:1-9)

The meaning of this Sunday’s Gospel is greatly enriched if we understand the context in which it appears, both within Matthew’s Gospel and the larger story of salvation history. Time spent on this will bear good fruit.

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