<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>
<p>I tend to see Jesus' experience of the Transfiguration as a midpoint between two other realities. I'm exploring with the brothers this idea of two different elements––the energy and the vessel, and how monasticism, for instance, is both: monasticism is first an energy, but the life is also the vessel for that energy. And some attention has to paid to both.</p>
<p>I first ran into this idea in Ronald Rolheiser's <em>The Holy Longing</em>. He was writing about the soul and I thought about how it could be applied to spirituality in general. As Rolheiser says, it's like the dance between chaos and order, fire and water, energy and integration, even passion and chastity.<sup>1