The Gospel lesson, dearly-beloved, which has reached the inner hearing of our minds through our bodily ears, calls us to the understanding of a great mystery, to which we shall by the help of God's ...

On August 6/19 , the Orthodox Church celebrates one of the Great 12 Feast Days—that of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor, which is in what is now the territory of Israel. Our Lord Jesus ...

At the Transfiguration, Peter, James, and John witnessed a transformative moment that reflects the life of the Christian called to his or her own transfiguration. St. Matthew described in his Gospel: ...

A word acquires a more precise meaning in a sentence of which it is an integral part. The Transfiguration is reported by the writers of the three synoptic Gospels in very similar terms. Yet each ...

The Gospel reading today (Mark 9.2-9) speaks to us about Jesus’ transfiguration, and it raises the question as to how our lives today may be transfigured. In other words how each of us may be ...

It’s the Second Sunday of Lent and today’s gospel reading is about the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ in Mt. Tabor. I’m sure that many Catholics already know this story; after all it is ...

This article argues that Michelangelo rendered the Last Judgment as an event foretold by the Transfiguration. A survey of theological texts widely known in Renaissance Italy shows that from biblical ...

TOMORROW, the festival of the Transfiguration commemorates Jesus’s taking James, John, and Peter up a mountain, where they saw Jesus’s face shine like the sun and his clothes become dazzling white. He ...