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Every year on the second Sunday of Lent, we are offered the subject of Jesus’ Transfiguration. The message of this passage is not immediately clear or easy to grasp because it is transmitted in symbolic language and with images that require an explanation. The scene is set in a secluded place, on a high mountain where Jesus led three of his disciples (v. 2). They will be the same witnesses of his agony in Gethsemane (Mk 14:33). Mark stresses the fact that they were alone.