Saturday 23 February

ST POLYCARP, BISHOP AND MARTYR

Hebrews 11:1-7; Psalm 145; Mark 9:2-13

Unseen realities

It is faith that gives meaning to our lives and that assures us of the ‘blessings we hope for’. The ultimate blessing, foreshadowed on the mount of the transfiguration, is the new creation in Christ Jesus, our bodies and lives transformed in the glory of heaven. Such marvels are prefigured when we feel exquisite joy in our time of prayer, or in the company of friends, or in the beauty of a flower or a landscape bathed in sunrise …