{"id":5824,"date":"2024-02-24T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2024-02-24T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:55:53","slug":"2024-world-hunger-lent-study-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/2024-world-hunger-lent-study-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 World Hunger Lent Study: Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a hardcopy or downloaded as a PDF in English or Spanish at the link here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Week 2 \u2014 Transfiguration<\/h1>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
\nPsalm 22:23-31
\nRomans 4:13-25
\nMark 8:31-38 or Mark 9:2-9<\/h3>\n

This week in Lent we continue exploring the places and moments in which we encounter God, reflecting on transfiguration as recounted in Mark 9:2-9. Here God\u2019s manifest presence before the disciples demonstrates God\u2019s presence in the life of creation, especially in times of injustice.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransfiguration\u201d is an odd word telling an odd story. The word comes from two Latin roots \u2014 \u201ctrans,\u201d meaning \u201cacross,\u201d and \u201cfigura,\u201d meaning \u201cshape\u201d \u2014 so it indicates a change in shape or form. Its occurrence in this week\u2019s reading from Mark is one of the few times it appears in the Christian Scriptures.<\/p>\n

The story is a little strange. Jesus takes Peter, James and John up a mountain. There he is revealed in all his glory, in dazzling clothes, with the spirits of Elijah and Moses beside him and God claiming him as God\u2019s own son. Curiously, this experience of Jesus\u2019 divine glory occurs immediately after his long speech about the suffering he will soon endure on the cross. Is it any wonder the disciples are depicted as confused?<\/p>\n

Peter is often portrayed in the gospels as well-intentioned but foolish, a far cry from the confident leader he will become in the early church. In Mark\u2019s story, Peter just doesn\u2019t get it. Amid this mystical experience on a mountaintop, Peter, like some rabid suburban developer, suggests, \u201cHey, let\u2019s build some houses and just stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Peter may not be quite as dense as we readers first assume. Peter is the one who reminds us that, even during a mountaintop experience, we never cease to be human. Peter is the one who says, \u201cJesus, I know your clothes are all shiny, and it looks like you got some ghosts with you, and yeah, I hear God talking, too, but we\u2019re all up on top of a mountain right now, and if we\u2019re going to spend any time here, we\u2019re going to need some shelter.\u201d Peter\u2019s reaction isn\u2019t one of fear or stupidity. It\u2019s the reaction of a human being who can\u2019t forget the physical realities that continually impinge on even the deepest spiritual moments.<\/p>\n

Like Peter, we are confronted by physical realities that we cannot ignore, even as we experience a profound spiritual crisis of yearning for the day when God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Like Peter on the mountain, we need to be brought into that ecstatic reality where the presence of God among us is revealed. But also like Peter, we can\u2019t just stay in that moment, ignoring the reality of lived, physical need. We must have a different kind of faith, a faith that refuses to separate transfiguration from transformation, to ignore people around us who are assailed by injustice, disease and violence. We need a faith that captivates, motivates and activates us to respond boldly and recklessly when God invites us to be part of the transformation being enacted for all creation. In the event of transfiguration we encounter God where the physical and the spiritual intersect. New Testament scholar Dorothy Lee puts it well:<\/p>\n

[T]he transfiguration is not an other-worldly narrative, disconnected from the body and ordinary human experience. On the contrary, it is precisely Jesus\u2019 transfigured body that discloses the face of God and the hope of God\u2019s future. \u2026 The transfiguration on the mountain is the meeting-place between human beings and God, between the temporal and the eternal \u2026 between everyday human life \u2014 with all its hopes and fears \u2014 and the mystery of God.[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter\u2019s suggestion of building shelters doesn\u2019t seem all that far[1]fetched when we recognize that Jesus never ceases to be a physical human being, even as the transfiguration discloses him as also divine. Peter isn\u2019t missing the story. According to Lee, the story is really about him \u2014 and us.<\/p>\n

To encounter God in transfiguration is to experience those moments when our perception is opened up radically to the presence of God in our midst. Jesus\u2019 transfigured body births a transfigured faith \u2014 a faith that holds in tension the holy and the ordinary, the spiritual and the physical. The story of the transfiguration in Mark isn\u2019t the story of Jesus experiencing his own divinity. Nor is it the story of some important consultation Jesus had with Moses and Elijah. We don\u2019t even know what they said! Rather it is the story of the disciples encountering God in their own physical midst, represented by Jesus\u2019 body and clothing, and in their own history, as represented by Moses and Elijah. It is the story of a faith that opens them to encounter God in their past, present and future, as Lee suggests.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for us today? What does it mean to live with a transfigured faith? For over three years Church World Service (CWS), with support from ELCA World Hunger, has provided child protection services to unaccompanied children in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Living in a foreign land without parents or relatives by their side, these vulnerable children are on a difficult journey, trying to reach a better future. Many of them have come to live by a simple but devastating principle: \u201cDo not trust people.\u201d They build walls around themselves to keep safe from those who would take advantage of them, but these walls also bring anxiety, depression and a deep skepticism of adults or agencies trying to help them.<\/p>\n

One of the youth helped by CWS is Ahmed (name changed for privacy). Ahmed left his home in Burundi two years ago, relying on money his parents had raised for him to travel to Croatia. When CWS met him, he had been living in Bosnia and Herzegovina for almost a year. \u201cI left with six friends, all from Burundi,\u201d he says. \u201cWe watched hungry people every day [in Burundi], and we were among them. I am the oldest, so I am responsible for my brothers. My father is sick, so he cannot work. I need to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along the way Ahmed faced steep challenges, including physical violence and intimidation by police at the Croatian border. \u201cGo back where you came from!\u201d they yelled as they pushed him. \u201cHow can I go back,\u201d Ahmed says, \u201cwhen my family\u2019s survival depends on me going forward?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahmed\u2019s story is, tragically, not unique. Like many others, he carries the weight of his journey, his yearning for home and his frustrated hope for a future in Europe. By the time CWS staff met him, Ahmed was making his ninth attempt to enter Croatia. After providing him with whatever help they could, they watched him go, hoping that, this time, the journey would be successful.<\/p>\n

A transfigured faith \u2014 shaped by an encounter with the God who transforms our world and our perspective \u2014 changes us. To encounter Jesus transfigured is to remember that God has entered human history, that God plays a role in the story of unaccompanied children. But encountering Jesus transfigured also means remembering the physical as well as the spiritual, to say, with Peter, \u201cWe should build some shelter here.\u201d Ahmed\u2019s fears and disappointment don\u2019t vanish just because God is part of his story. Nor are Ahmed\u2019s tired feet miraculously soothed.<\/p>\n

To carry a transfigured faith into the world, to bear witness to our encounter with God in transfiguration, impels us radically outward to seek God in the real people and events around us. This faith is grounded in the belief that God is present with us through the Galilean carpenter \u2014 and through a Burundian child. All too often, migrants such as Ahmed are viewed as nothing more than a burden or an intrusion: \u201cGo back where you came from!\u201d he was told. Yet a transfigured faith reminds us that our neighbors are more than burdens or disturbances, more than even their own need; to us they are the presence of God, just as we are to one another.<\/p>\n

Encountering God in transfiguration is more than an odd event on a mountaintop 2,000 years ago. God transfigures our faith and perception, opening us to recognize God in our neighbors and to perceive God active in our history. After Peter, James and John reach the mountaintop, there is no going back. Jesus is no ordinary teacher they are following. This is something new, something miraculously and wonderfully different. Here is the unveiling of divinity, transforming their lives and how they view the world.<\/p>\n

As we journey together spiritually through Lent, let us do so with a transfigured faith, remembering the difficult, dangerous, physical journeys so many of our neighbors are on and remembering our call to be present with them and one another, to be changed by the presence of God within them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Reflection Questions<\/h2>\n

How would you have reacted if you were on the mountain with Peter, James and John?<\/p>\n

With the transfiguration of Jesus, the disciples come to see Christ\u2019s divinity. How might this have changed their understanding of what it meant to be a disciple?<\/p>\n

How does a transfigured faith, recognizing the ways God is present in our world and one another, change us?<\/p>\n

How can the church confront and change people\u2019s negative perception of neighbors such as Ahmed? What difference might this make?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Semana 2 \u2014 Transfiguraci\u00f3n<\/h1>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

G\u00e9nesis 17:1-7, 15-16
\nSalmo 22:23-31
\nRomanos 4:13-25
\nMarcos 8:31-38 o Marcos 9:2-9<\/h3>\n

Esta semana de la Cuaresma seguimos explorando los lugares y momentos en los que nos encontramos con Dios, y reflexionamos sobre la transfiguraci\u00f3n tal y como se relata en Marcos 9:2-9. Aqu\u00ed la presencia manifiesta de Dios ante los disc\u00edpulos demuestra la presencia de Dios en la vida de la creaci\u00f3n, especialmente en tiempos de injusticia.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransfiguraci\u00f3n\u201d es una palabra extra\u00f1a que cuenta una historia extra\u00f1a. La palabra proviene de dos ra\u00edces latinas: \u201ctrans\u201d, que significa \u201ca trav\u00e9s\u201d, y \u201cfigura\u201d, que significa \u201cforma\u201d, por lo que indica un cambio en el aspecto o la forma. Su aparici\u00f3n en la lectura de Marcos de esta semana es una de las pocas veces que aparece en las escrituras cristianas.<\/p>\n

La historia es un poco extra\u00f1a. Jes\u00fas lleva a Pedro, Santiago y Juan a una monta\u00f1a. All\u00ed se revela en toda su gloria, con ropas deslumbrantes, con los esp\u00edritus de El\u00edas y Mois\u00e9s a su lado y Dios lo reclama como su propio hijo. Curiosamente, esta experiencia de la gloria divina de Jes\u00fas ocurre inmediatamente despu\u00e9s de haber dado su largo discurso sobre el sufrimiento que pronto soportar\u00e1 en la cruz. \u00bfEs de extra\u00f1ar que los disc\u00edpulos sean representados como confundidos?<\/p>\n

Con frecuencia Pedro es representado en los evangelios como bien intencionado pero tonto, muy distinto del l\u00edder seguro en el que se convertir\u00eda en la iglesia primitiva. En el relato de Marcos, Pedro simplemente no entiende. En medio de esta experiencia m\u00edstica en la cima de una monta\u00f1a, Pedro, como un entusiasta desarrollador suburbano, sugiere: \u201cOye, construyamos algunas casas y qued\u00e9monos\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pero es posible que Pedro no sea tan bobo como los lectores asumimos en un principio. \u00c9l es quien nos recuerda que, incluso durante una experiencia en la cima de una monta\u00f1a, nunca dejamos de ser humanos. Pedro es el que dice: \u201cJes\u00fas, s\u00e9 que tu ropa es resplandeciente, y parece que contigo hay algunos fantasmas, y s\u00ed, tambi\u00e9n oigo a Dios hablar, pero en este momento todos estamos en la cima de una monta\u00f1a, y si vamos a pasar alg\u00fan tiempo aqu\u00ed, vamos a necesitar un albergue\u201d. La reacci\u00f3n de Pedro no es de temor ni estupidez. Es la reacci\u00f3n de un ser humano que no puede olvidar las realidades f\u00edsicas que continuamente afectan aun los momentos espirituales m\u00e1s profundos.<\/p>\n

Al igual que Pedro, nos enfrentamos a realidades f\u00edsicas que no podemos ignorar, incluso cuando experimentamos una profunda crisis espiritual de anhelo por el d\u00eda en que Dios enjugar\u00e1 toda l\u00e1grima de nuestros ojos. Al igual que Pedro en la monta\u00f1a, necesitamos ser llevados a esa realidad ext\u00e1tica donde la presencia de Dios se revela entre nosotros. Pero tambi\u00e9n, al igual que Pedro, no podemos quedarnos en ese momento e ignorar la realidad de la necesidad f\u00edsica vivida. Debemos tener un tipo de fe diferente, una fe que se niegue a separar la transfiguraci\u00f3n de la transformaci\u00f3n, a ignorar a las personas que nos rodean y que son asediadas por la injusticia, la enfermedad y la violencia. Necesitamos una fe que nos cautive, motive y active para responder con valor y audacia cuando Dios nos invita a ser parte de la transformaci\u00f3n que se est\u00e1 llevando a cabo por toda la creaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

En el evento de la transfiguraci\u00f3n nos encontramos con Dios donde lo f\u00edsico y lo espiritual se cruzan. La erudita del Nuevo Testamento, Dorothy Lee, expresa esto muy bien:<\/p>\n

[L]a transfiguraci\u00f3n no es una narrativa de otro mundo, desconectada del cuerpo y de la experiencia humana ordinaria. Al contrario, es precisamente el cuerpo transfigurado de Jes\u00fas el que revela el rostro de Dios y la esperanza del futuro de Dios. … La transfiguraci\u00f3n en la monta\u00f1a es el lugar de encuentro entre los seres humanos y Dios, entre lo temporal y lo eterno… entre la vida humana cotidiana \u2014con todas sus esperanzas y temores\u2014 y el misterio de Dios.[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

La sugerencia de Pedro de levantar albergues no parece tan descabellada cuando reconocemos que Jes\u00fas nunca deja de ser un ser humano f\u00edsico, incluso cuando la transfiguraci\u00f3n lo revela como tambi\u00e9n divino. No es que Pedro se pierde la historia. Seg\u00fan Lee, la historia es realmente sobre \u00e9l \u2014y sobre nosotros.<\/p>\n

Encontrarse con Dios en la transfiguraci\u00f3n es experimentar esos momentos en los que nuestra percepci\u00f3n se abre radicalmente a la presencia de Dios en medio de nosotros. El cuerpo transfigurado de Jes\u00fas da a luz una fe transfigurada \u2014una fe que mantiene en tensi\u00f3n lo santo y lo ordinario, lo espiritual y lo f\u00edsico. El relato de la transfiguraci\u00f3n en Marcos no se trata de la historia de Jes\u00fas que experimenta su propia divinidad. Tampoco es la historia de alguna consulta importante que Jes\u00fas tuvo con Mois\u00e9s y El\u00edas. \u00a1Ni siquiera sabemos lo que dijeron! M\u00e1s bien es la historia de los disc\u00edpulos que se encuentran con Dios en el propio medio f\u00edsico de ellos, representado por el cuerpo y la ropa de Jes\u00fas, y en la propia historia de ellos, representada por Mois\u00e9s y El\u00edas. Es la historia de una fe que los dispone a encontrar a Dios en su pasado, presente y futuro, seg\u00fan sugiere Lee.<\/p>\n

\u00bfQu\u00e9 significa esto para nosotros hoy? \u00bfQu\u00e9 significa vivir con una fe transfigurada?<\/p>\n

Por m\u00e1s de tres a\u00f1os, Church World Service (CWS), con el respaldo de ELCA World Hunger, ha prestado servicios de protecci\u00f3n de menores a ni\u00f1os no acompa\u00f1ados en Bosnia y Herzegovina. Como viven en una tierra extranjera sin padres ni familiares a su lado, estos ni\u00f1os vulnerables atraviesan una jornada dif\u00edcil, tratando de alcanzar un futuro mejor. Muchos de ellos han llegado a vivir seg\u00fan un principio simple pero devastador: \u201cNo conf\u00edes en la gente\u201d. Levantan muros a su alrededor para mantenerse a salvo de aquellos que se aprovechar\u00edan de ellos, pero estos muros tambi\u00e9n conllevan ansiedad, depresi\u00f3n y un profundo escepticismo hacia los adultos o las agencias que intentan ayudarlos.<\/p>\n

Uno de los j\u00f3venes que CWS ayud\u00f3 es Ahmed (su nombre fue cambiado por motivos de privacidad). Ahmed dej\u00f3 su hogar en Burundi hace dos a\u00f1os, y confiaba en el dinero que sus padres hab\u00edan recaudado para que viajara a Croacia. Cuando el CWS lo conoci\u00f3, hab\u00eda estado viviendo en Bosnia y Herzegovina durante casi un a\u00f1o. \u201cMe fui con seis amigos, todos de Burundi\u201d, dice. \u201cObserv\u00e1bamos a la gente hambrienta todos los d\u00edas [en Burundi], y est\u00e1bamos entre ellos. Soy el mayor, as\u00ed que soy responsable de mis hermanos. Mi padre est\u00e1 enfermo, as\u00ed que no puede trabajar. Tengo que ayudarlos\u201d.<\/p>\n

A lo largo del camino, Ahmed se enfrent\u00f3 a grandes desaf\u00edos, como la violencia f\u00edsica y la intimidaci\u00f3n por parte de la polic\u00eda en la frontera croata. \u201c\u00a1Vuelve de donde viniste!\u201d le gritaron mientras lo empujaban. \u201c\u00bfC\u00f3mo puedo volver \u2013dice Ahmed\u2013 cuando la supervivencia de mi familia depende de que yo siga adelante?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tr\u00e1gicamente, la historia de Ahmed no es \u00fanica. Como muchos otros, lleva el peso de su jornada, su a\u00f1oranza del hogar y su esperanza frustrada de un futuro en Europa. En el momento en que el personal de CWS se reuni\u00f3 con \u00e9l, Ahmed estaba haciendo su noveno intento de entrar en Croacia. Despu\u00e9s de brindarle toda la ayuda que pudieron, lo vieron partir, con la esperanza de que, esta vez, el viaje fuera exitoso.<\/p>\n

Una fe transfigurada, moldeada por un encuentro con el Dios que transforma nuestro mundo y nuestra perspectiva, nos cambia. Encontrar a Jes\u00fas transfigurado es recordar que Dios ha entrado en la historia humana, que Dios desempe\u00f1a un papel en la historia de los ni\u00f1os no acompa\u00f1ados. Pero encontrarse con Jes\u00fas transfigurado significa tambi\u00e9n recordar lo f\u00edsico y lo espiritual para decir con Pedro: \u201cDebemos levantar aqu\u00ed un albergue\u201d. Los temores y la decepci\u00f3n de Ahmed no se desvanecen solo porque Dios es parte de su historia. Tampoco se calman milagrosamente los pies cansados de Ahmed.<\/p>\n

Llevar al mundo una fe transfigurada, dar testimonio de nuestro encuentro con Dios en la transfiguraci\u00f3n, nos impulsa radicalmente hacia afuera a buscar a Dios en las personas y en los acontecimientos reales que nos rodean. Esta fe se basa en la creencia de que Dios est\u00e1 presente con nosotros a trav\u00e9s del carpintero galileo y a trav\u00e9s de un ni\u00f1o burund\u00e9s. Con demasiada frecuencia, los migrantes como Ahmed son vistos como una mera carga o una intrusi\u00f3n: \u201c\u00a1Vuelve de donde viniste!\u201d le dijeron. Sin embargo, una fe transfigurada nos recuerda que nuestro pr\u00f3jimo es m\u00e1s que cargas o perturbaciones, m\u00e1s que incluso su propia necesidad; para nosotros son la presencia de Dios, as\u00ed como nosotros lo somos los unos para los otros.<\/p>\n

Encontrar a Dios en la transfiguraci\u00f3n es m\u00e1s que un evento extra\u00f1o en la cima de una monta\u00f1a hace 2,000 a\u00f1os. Dios transfigura nuestra fe y percepci\u00f3n, poni\u00e9ndonos dispuestos a reconocer a Dios en nuestro pr\u00f3jimo y a percibir a Dios activo en nuestra historia. Despu\u00e9s de que Pedro, Santiago y Juan llegan a la cima de la monta\u00f1a, no hay marcha atr\u00e1s. Jes\u00fas no es un maestro ordinario al que siguen. Esto es algo nuevo, algo milagrosa y maravillosamente diferente. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 la revelaci\u00f3n de la divinidad, transformando sus vidas y su forma de ver el mundo.<\/p>\n

Mientras caminamos juntos espiritualmente a trav\u00e9s de la Cuaresma, hag\u00e1moslo con una fe transfigurada, recordando las jornadas dif\u00edciles, peligrosas y f\u00edsicas que atraviesan muchos de nuestros vecinos y recordando nuestra llamada a estar presentes con ellos y entre nosotros, para ser cambiados por la presencia de Dios dentro de ellos.<\/p>\n

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Preguntas de reflexi\u00f3n<\/h2>\n

\u00bfC\u00f3mo hubiera reaccionado usted si hubiese estado en la monta\u00f1a con Pedro, Santiago y Juan?<\/p>\n

Con la transfiguraci\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas, los disc\u00edpulos llegan a ver la divinidad de Cristo. \u00bfC\u00f3mo pudo esto haber cambiado su comprensi\u00f3n de lo que significa ser un disc\u00edpulo?<\/p>\n

\u00bfC\u00f3mo nos cambia una fe transfigurada, que reconoce las formas en que Dios est\u00e1 presente en nuestro mundo y entre nosotros?<\/p>\n

\u00bfC\u00f3mo puede la iglesia confrontar y cambiar la percepci\u00f3n negativa de la gente hacia vecinos como Ahmed? \u00bfQu\u00e9 diferencia podr\u00eda marcar esto?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Dorothy Lee, Transfiguration (New York: Continuum, 2004), 2.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Dorothy Lee, Transfiguration [La Transfiguraci\u00f3n] (New York: Continuum, 2004), 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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