Mount Tabor, traditionally the Mount of the Transfiguration
The story of the Transfiguration of Jesus is unusual in that it is not only told in the Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) but in the Second Letter of Peter, in what we may take to be an eye-witness reference deliberately claiming a fully historical basis for the event:}
16 We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received honour and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” 18 We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.
The celebration of the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6th will never be the same again after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on that day in 1945.
We face a clear choice: by what power will we seek to transfigure our world.
Collect
Father in heaven,
whose Son Jesus Christ was wonderfully transfigured
before chosen witnesses upon the holy mountain,
and spoke of the exodus he would accomplish at Jerusalem:
give us strength so to hear his voice and bear our cross
that in the world to come we may see him as he is;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
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[...] CLEAR CHOICE Posted on August 6, 2009 by Simon Marsh Bishop David Thomson writes (with a fabulous photo) on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ [...]
Strong post.
In Christ,
Mark