Subjects for Ignatian Meditation on Matthew 17
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what the high mountain looks likeagainst the sky and what they all saidon their way up to it, what they thoughtthey were going to do there
what transfiguration really looks likeor feels like on the eyes, whetherthe light triggered migraines for oneor caused another to hold a hand,like a visor, to his brow
what Moses, Jesus, and Elijah even talked about
how God's voice sounds,loud, unavoidable, or its morefamiliar form, tiny and tremulous
when
when, finally, Jesus will touch me [End Page 129]
Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest living in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of chapbooks Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating and Woman as Communion as well as the forthcoming full-length collection Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poems. Megan discovered passions for both poetry and preaching at Susquehanna University, in her home state of Pennsylvania, and continued her studies of religion and the arts at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. megan.mcdermott1@comcast.net.
