THE TRANSFIGURATION

"Jesus took with him Peter, and Jean Jacques, and led them on a high mountain. He was transfigured before them, his face shone like the sun and his garments became white as light. And here Moses and Elijah appeared to them, s 'relations with him. A bright cloud cover, and a voice was heard from the cloud saying:' This is my beloved Son, in whom I put all my love: listen to him! "When heard that voice, the disciples fell on their faces, and were filled with awe. " Gospel according to Saint Matthew The mountain seems to be the Mount Tabor in Galilee, Jesus took with him his disciples as they would like to attend His agony in Gethsemane, they would be witnesses of His Passion. He agreed they were prepared for this test by the spectacle of his glory: the manifestation of the divine in him human nature. Jesus appeared as a light source, the source of divine life made available to man, a light that also spread on clothing, ie to the outside world and on human civilization and all that it produces. Saint John Damascene says: "Christ was transfigured not by assuming that it was not, but showing his disciples that it was opening their eyes" and St. Andrew of Crete says: "in this moment, Christ did not become brighter or more excitement, he remained what he was " and the Gospel does not speak of the transfiguration of the Lord, but the apostles . The apostles were for a moment the ability to see Christ as it was in its deepest reality. The apostles found themselves penetrated illuminated they were able to see, see God and turn to shine because God has become visible not only to their intellect but also their sense corporal. Like the apostles, it is also possible for us to see and feel our whole body with the divine light . "He who participates in the divine energy, is light itself and is united with the light and the light he sees in full all that remains hidden to those who do not have that grace; it surpasses not only the tangible sense, but also what can be known (for intelligence) as the pure of heart see God. " (Gregory Palamas). The union with God, the vision is bright for the man at once fully objective, fully conscious, fully personal because every human being bears the image of the Creator, its free participation in the divine life. Cyril of Alexandria writes: "The man received the original control his desires and could freely follow the inclinations of his choice because the Deity, which he is the image, is free." This is not an integration of the human person in the infinite divine, but the fulfillment of his destiny and personal freedom. The vocation of man consists in his personal liberty to transcend the world not to abandon it but to contain it, tell him its meaning, its perfect beauty, transfigure and not disfiguring. Everything that happens in humans have universal significance and prints on the world . The Bible presents the world as a material that should help people to take historical consciousness of his freedom offered by God. The world has been created to be transfigured. This transfiguration is the man who must perform, in which Christ is the perfect man, she is accomplished but it remains secret, it is buried, hidden in the plight of the history and the world is frozen in opacity by the refusal of men. It is to rise to the top of the world the incandescent secret . The Transfiguration becomes the key to the true history, the history of light, this light but still needs to clarify everything that men can be illuminating because the human heart, when he is touched by the divine light, becomes the heart of the world and make the light, discover things and beings in their truth, ie in the light of the Transfiguration . + Stephanos, Metropolitan of Tallinn * Pour information, je ne suis adepte d'aucune église ; vous trouverez donc sur ce site des explications aux icônes provenant de toutes sources christiques qui répondent à mes attentes.