In the Transfiguration, the culmination of the Epiphany season, Jesus is revealed to His disciples as the Son of God “as bright as a flash of lightning.”
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, martyr, died 156 Thursday, February 23
Because he is said to have been known by John, the author of Revelation, as well as the important early church fathers Irenaeus and Ignatius, Polycarp serves as a vital link in church history. He was burned at the stake at age 86 for refusing to renounce his faith.
In our baptisms, the Spirit came to us as it did to Jesus and the Ephesians, calling us God's beloved children and setting us on Jesus' mission to re-create the world in the image of God's vision of justice and peace.
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