In the first Sunday of Lent the readings spoke about the three temptations of Jesus in the desert and as mentioned they too can be the temptations of an everyday Christian.   However, there is another temptation, a fourth one if you will, that can also happen.  This temptation can be named comfortableness.  This is what happens at the mountain of Transfiguration. Not that Jesus tempted his disciples, for God does not tempt.  But Peter, seeing how glorious the experience had been, wanted to stay in the mountain and build his tent mentality.  The temptation is to make oneself comfortable with God and comfortable with others.  And this is said in a negative way, to no longer try, to give up, to become complacent, to be okay with the status quo.  Peter, along with the other two, no longer wanted to come down to address the passion.  The temptation of comfortableness now happens in various ways.  Clouded thinking is one way.  Allowing the world to put too many negative thoughts in the head.  Tent mentality which can mean just having rigid thinking and only wanting those who belong to one's inner circle. Tent mentality would also be excluding others on a particular trait.  It is an unwelcoming attitude of not wanting others to enter the tent. Another temptation of comfortableness is to have fear of the unknown. The Gospel says that fear had seized them all.  Fear can become paralyzing and instead of dealing with the problem some think it's better to stay on high and not come down the mountain to face the fear.  Like Moses, many stay in high places of comfort until something happens when they come down their mountain of conceit and visit how the people are living in the plains.  For some it is better to stay on the mountain for fear than to see what is going down in the valley, and yet there is much happening in the valley.  For some living their faith is being at the mountain of the church saying their prayers and minding their own business. They are comfortable at church. They fear the world.  This fear is getting involved with those down the valley, which are the poor, the sick, the disadvantaged, and yes, the immigrants. The fear of what is going down below is manifested on the mountain and so there is fear also happening at the mountain. How many fear others at church because they are different from them? While Jesus was transfiguring himself and showing his glory, not all understood what was happening and their experiences were different than what was intended.  In this Gospel not everything that was happening was being well accepted and well processed.  There were very human elements happening throughout the Transfiguration.  Jesus continues to be transfigured in the Eucharist by the transubstantiation.  May those on the mountain (those at church) may not realize what truly is going on and allow fear and close-minded mentality distract from this glorious experience. Yet having witnessed this transfiguration they may not remain on the mountain with the temptation of comfortableness but rather come down from it to transform the world with the love of God for all others.