THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 7

THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD.

The glorious Transfiguration of Our Blessed Lord took place a few months before His Sacred Passion. The scene of this mystery, which was intended to confirm the faith of His Apostles under their coming trials, was probably Mount Thabor, a lofty mountain in Galilee, situated a few miles to the east of Nazareth. ' And after Bix days,' says the Evangelist, ' Jesus taketh with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain to pray.' These three Apostles, who were afterwards to behold Our Lord sorrowful in the Garden of Gethsemani, were chosen to be the special witnesses of the glory of His Transfiguration. 'And while He prayed He was transfigured before them. And His face did shine as the sun and His garments became shining and exceeding white as Bnow.' In other words, Jesus laid aside the ordinary appearance of His mortal flesh and assumed by anticipation His glorified Body, revealing to the astonished eyes of His Apostles the glory and splendor which delight the eyes of the heavenly citizens and fill their hearts with an indescribable sweetness and joy.