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The
Transfiguration of Christ is one of the central events recorded in the
Gospels. Immediately after the Lord was recognized by His disciples as
the Christ, the Son of the Living God, he told them that He must go up
to Jerusalem and suffer many things... and be killed and on the third
day be raised.
The Feast of the Transfiguration
of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ is celebrated each year on
August 6. The feast commemorates the transfiguration or metamorphosis of
Christ on Mount Tabor, when our Lord appeared in His divine glory before
the Apostles Peter, James, and John.
As the Saviour was praying, the
disciples slept from fatigue. When they woke up, they saw Jesus Christ
transfigured before them. His face shone like the, sun and His garments
became white as snow and glistened as light. There, two prophets, Moses
and Elijah, in heavenly glory appeared with Him, and they were talking
with Jesus about the suffering and death which He would have to endure
in Jerusalem. |