North of the Shire

Although in our day and age, Christianity seems to want to sanitize itself of some of the messy and disturbing, even shocking realities of life and salvation, even to the point of denying the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, that verse above remains the truth.  I was reminded of it by this homily from Father Stephanos in which he makes an interesting point about the Transfiguration from Sunday March 8/9, that Moses and Elijah were in some sense handing off from the Old Covenant to the New ceremonially.  He mentions the killing that Moses and Elijah were obligated to be involved in and at first glance the homily is quite arresting, even shocking, bringing us back to real life.