Transfiguration is a High Mountain

We have said in a previous entry on Scholé that Jesus, in His Transfiguration has shown us the destiny of our own transfiguration. But before attaining the light of the Transfiguration, the hard path of asceticism is almost always necessary. Like climbing that mine road there was work to do to get to the glorious view at the top….

Singing the Theology of the Transfiguration

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.

What the Church Celebrates in the Feast of the Transfiguration

“In the Transfiguration, the apostles see the glory of the Kingdom of God present in majesty in the person of Christ They see that in him, indeed, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,” that “in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Col 1:19, 2:9). They see this before the crucifixion so that in the resurrection they might know whom it is who has suffered for them, and what it is that this one, who is God, has prepared for those who love him. This is what the Church celebrates in the feast of the Transfiguration.” Fr. Tom Hopko

Introduction to the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Thursday of this week we are celebrating the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Transfiguration, for the Eastern Orthodox, is considered one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Church year. So for the next 5 days on Scholé I am doing a series on the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the third year of His preaching, the Lord Jesus often spoke to His disciples of His approaching passion and His glorious Resurrection. So that His impending passion would not totally weaken His disciples, the Savior wanted to show them His divine glory before His passion on the Holy Cross. (This is why we sing of the Holy Cross on this day.) Today let us try and consider some aspects of the gospel account of the Transfiguration and then in the days to come we are going to look at our theology regarding the Transfiguration. This glorious event is recorded in all three of the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke).