Transfiguration, the feast of the feasts – Father Gavril Galev
Posted By Macedon on August 19, 2024
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This feast (holy day) is the feast of the feasts, because in this feast are celebrated several feasts (holy days) in one. The Transfiguration of Christ is celebrated, who was transfigured and made manifest His Divine nature, having in addition the human one. He revealed Himself complete as God and complete as Man (perfect God and perfect Man). The Holy Trinity, which appeared in Three Persons, is celebrated. Christ, the Son of God, was transfiguring on the Mount before the Apostles; The Holy Spirit, through the transfiguring grace, appeared in light and the Father with the voice that testifies: “This is My Beloved Son”. The Church is also celebrated, which is announced through Christ together with the Apostles and Prophets. The Old Testament Church and the New Testament Church, in One Holy and Catholic (Universal) Church. Furthermore, the Transfiguration of the Apostles is also celebrated, which is actually the essence of our existence and the reason for which God created us and for which God came in the flesh and became a man, which is also the most significant for us.
This event is not an illusion, this event is not a fable, a myth or some symbolism. Nor is this light created, as some teach and blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. This light is uncreated and it is the energy of God. Uncreated (intangible)grace of God, which proceeds from God’s nature and is given to man to commune with God, and, be one with God. If this light had been created, then all this would have been just a good show. Our faith would be a fable and a myth, and our life would be in vain and false. But our Church is not a theatre. Our Church is a living reality and an icon of the Kingdom of Heaven. In this way, God showed that the Lord Jesus Christ is true God and therefore came into the world and became a true Man, so that we, participating in that energy, receive it and become sons of God, gods by grace.
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