The Glory of the Lord on Tabor

"Familiarity can breed contempt, especially in our reading of the word of God. Our experience of the major feasts of the church is also prone to such familiarity, especially if we have been Orthodox Christians for a long time. If we pay attention, and adjust our perspective a little, we can reinvigorate our vision of every one of the major feasts.

If we read the Gospel account of the Transfiguration, we might, at first, be surprised at the lack of detail used in the language describing the event. It is almost as if it is beyond human language, beyond human experience – which, of course, it is. But to stop at that is to miss the deep and layered meaning of what happened to the three apostles on Mount Tabor, and what it means for us Christians today.

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