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- n. Christianity The miraculous event, on a mountain, when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles; the feast commemorating this event – 6 August (or 19 August in the Orthodox church)
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“There were three stages in the complex incident which we call the Transfiguration -- the change in Jesus 'appearance, the colloquy with Moses and Elijah, and the voice from the cloud.”
“The Transfiguration is a reminder that the glory and presence of God is indeed with us, even when we struggle through days wet with tears and nights filled with sorrows.”
“Transfiguration is regarded as the earnest of Christ's coming in glory.”
“The mysterious incident which is commonly called the Transfiguration contained three distinct portions, each having its own special significance and lesson.”
“Transfiguration' -- the scream of that devil-possessed boy, in the lower part of the figure of eight (a stolen boy too), jars the whole music of the composition.”
“Roughly 19 centuries later, and 65 years ago today, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed with elements that cannot but recall the Transfiguration: a sun-bright white light, a roar from heaven, a cloud, terror, and -- most of all -- a world that would never be the same.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson: Hiroshima and the Transfiguration: A Meditation
“In her liturgy, the Church teaches that the Transfiguration was a way that the Father prepared the apostles to face the passion and death of Jesus.”
“The Transfiguration is a Theophany - a manifestation of God, especially of the divinity of Christ, through the display of His uncreated, divine energy.”
“In the Greek Church the feast of the Transfiguration is the principal solemnity in honor of Christ's kingship, Summum Regem gloriae Christum adoremus Invit.”
“The admission is due because I first started caring about the Feast of the Transfiguration, which is today, when I learned that the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima also occurred on the 6th of August 1945.”
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