Transfiguration

It was Transfiguration Day yesterday ... everyone in my community (meaning only 4 because everybody else is on home leave) went to Mt. Tabor for the feast. I of course was in Herzliya for the Mass. I've been very interested in the Transfiguration story told by the 3 gospels and have been studying them for some time. I promised the Transfiguration Chapel group in Hong Kong I'd write a book on it but haven't really got round to it. I should start soon ... given my failing health.

Yesterday's headlines was about the Olympics ... not the opening ceremony but how the Lebanese contingent refused to share a bus with the Israeli contingent bringing them to the opening ceremony. It's a big deal here ... with the Israelis accusing Lebanon of going against the spirit of the Games. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.735481

Cardinal Zen sweeping
the road

And to follow up on the 2 isreali soldiers who bullied the 8 yr old arab girl in Hebron and threw her bicycle into the bushes ... they claim they were doing it to protect the girl. They wanted to prevent her from entering the Jewish side of the road. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.735220
Well my question is: is this any different from what the Lebanese did to the Israelis in Rio?

A very touching photo has been floating around Facebook ... of Hong Kong's emeritus Cardinal sweeping the road to his residence at the Salesian House of Studies. At age 90 or so ... manual labour remains part of his religious (Salesian) vocation. You can be sure you'll not see some bishops let alone cardinals doing this in their own homes.