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There is a lot I have said on the Transfiguration in the past on my website. I even led a series of classes on it once.
The Transfiguration is an event that is difficult for most of us to talk about. It’s a vision. Most of us haven’t had experience with vision, at the very least not a visual one. There are only two people I know who have had this kind of experience.
This is not to say visions make you more or less faithful. They’re just not something a lot of us have experience with.
If there’s only one thing you take away from the Transfiguration, it is this: see the event as an icon. An icon is a work of art written to bring us closer to Jesus, or even one of the saints who followed Him. An icon reaches out to us to relate to us and tell us a story.
The Transfiguration is an icon because it represents who Jesus is. On one side, you have Moses, representing the Law. On the other you have Elijah, representing the Prophets. These are the two things Jesus represents and fulfills as we hear, and see, in Scripture, and as we sometimes hear in our services.
That, in a nutshell, is what the Transfiguration is all about. I do hope you will dive into more of what I’ve said about the Transfiguration, but if that is all you take away, then it is good.