In the second of his weekly meditations for Lent, Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, considers the dramatic story of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and through Christ our friendship with God It’s a bit early in Lent for a Hallelujah, isn’t it? Well, perhaps not. While the Messiah has become a perennial popular fixture within our contemporary Christmas celebrations, Handel very much composed it as a Lenten work. In which case, the “Hallelujah Chorus” makes an appropriate soundtrack for the Gospel of the Second Sunday of Lent: The Transfiguration of the Lord (Luke 9:28–36) in the presence of Moses and Elijah and observed by his three principal disciples, Peter, James and John.St Leo the Great suggests that by revealing the glory of his divi