Transfiguration, St.Mary, and the Holy Cross

Transfiguration: Taboric Light of the Word, Pentecost, and Liturgy
Links to Further Reflections on Scripture and Transfiguration:

• Transfiguration in the Epistles of Peter
• Transfiguration in the Gospel of John
• Transfiguration in the Gospel of Matthew
• Transfiguration in the Gospel of Mark
• Transfiguration in Mark: The Cry of the Centurion

Transfiguration: Christ the Light-Giver
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Transfiguration: Epiphanic Light
Only in Luke's Gospel do we encounter Tabor as an epiphany of the 8th Day,and only here in the entire New Testament is Jerusalem's Golgotha specifically named as that Epiphanic Reality which the events of "The 2nd Book of Moses" was only its type. The Taboric Light as 4 Dimensions of the Eighth Day:

• discipleship and beatitudes
• communio and theosis
• mystagogy and mysterion
• sanctus and gloria

Icon of Christ the Lightgiver
written by the hand of Heather Durka

Transfiguration of the Lord
The Transfiguration of the Lord
brings us into the Mystery of the Lord
as He is in Himself:
"Glorious, uncreated, self-existing;
eternal, adorable, consubstantial~"

These Divine Names are the praises we sing just after the "Theh've" for the Holy Qurbana's 3rd, and consummate, 3-fold Blessing.

Through this praise of the Divine Name,
the faithful mystically enter "the Great Elevation" of the Holy Gifts for the Holy Ones. Liturgically we are sharing the Mystery of the Revelation which Peter, James, and John encountered on Mt. Tabor.


Transfiguration Tradition: St. Makarios and Macarian Themes

Ascension of St. Mary
In the Festival of the Ascension of St. Mary,
a symbol of the life and pilgrimage of the Church itself.

7 Sundays of the Holy Cross
behold the Sign of the Jonah and the Hope of our Salvation