By Julia Fryc, February 26, 2026
This Lenten season, we invite you to journey with a group of Saint John’s School of Theology Masters candidates who gathered to pray with the Gospel readings from all five Sundays of the season, utilizing the ancient Benedictine practice of Lectio Divina. Together they meditated and reflected on such iconic scenes as Jesus’ temptation in the desert, the Samaritan woman meeting Christ at the well, the Transfiguration, and more.
Julia Fryc, a 1st year MDiv candidate, reflects on the Gospel reading for this coming Sunday, 2nd in the Lenten season.
Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them;
his face shone like the sun
and his clothes became white as light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them,
conversing with him.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
“Lord, it is good that we are here.
If you wish, I will make three tents here,
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, behold,
a bright cloud cast a shadow over them,
then from the cloud came a voice that said,
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;
listen to him.”
When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate
and were very much afraid.
But Jesus came and touched them, saying,
“Rise, and do not be afraid.”
And when the disciples raised their eyes,
they saw no one else but Jesus alone.
As they were coming down from the mountain,
Jesus charged them,
“Do not tell the vision to anyone
until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
Julia Fryc is graduate student at St. John’s School of Theology where she is currently studying in the Master’s of Divinity program.
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