The Transfiguration remembers the occasion when the disciples were allowed to glimpse Christ in his true, divine glory. That vision was given to sustain them on the road ahead as they journeyed toward Jerusalem and the unimaginable horror of the first Holy Week.
The Transfiguration is usually celebrated on 6 August, which always occurs during the long, teaching season of Trinity. It helps remind us that Jesus is divine as well as human, and demonstrates that divinity better than any other event during his life.
The Transfiguration is also remembered on the Sunday before Lent, which is appropriate because it helps remember Christ’s glory through much suffering and hardship such as the darkness of Good Friday.
For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’,
On that one mountain where all moments meet,
The daily veil that covers the sublime
In darkling glass fell dazzled at his feet.
There were no angels full of eyes and wings
Just living glory full of truth and grace.
The Love that dances at the heart of things
Shone out upon us from a human face
And to that light the light in us leaped up,
We felt it quicken somewhere deep within,
A sudden blaze of long-extinguished hope
Trembled and tingled through the tender skin.
Nor can this blackened sky, this darkened scar
Eclipse that glimpse of how things really are.
Poem by Malcolm Guite © reproduced with permission from https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/a-sonnet-on-the-transfiguration/
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