Resources For Transfiguration Sunday

The last Sunday before Ash Wednesday is traditionally a season in which the church remembers the transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in the gospels. This article introduces you to this day and provides resources for worship planning. The Eastern church has always regarded the Transfiguration with higher respect than has the Western. This may be because of their theology of "divination," which promises that human persons will become full of the glory of God. It is here, in the Transfiguration, where the greater glory of God in the man Jesus is manifest to Peter, James, and John. Here we see a more full expression of the deity of Christ and the glory he has with his Father. And we gain a glimpse of the glory he will share with us as his children! The Transfiguration is well situated in the last Sunday after Epiphany, for it is a final Epiphany of Christ and it is also well suited to the pilgrimage we are about to take during Lent, for during Lent we prepare to suffer with him so that…