page_title: Transfiguration of Jesus
section_title: Feast and commemorations
hierarchical_section_title: Transfiguration of Jesus / Feast and commemorations
caption_attribution_description: English: Produce laid on an altar for the Blessing of First Fruits on the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, taken in a Japanese Orthodox church, 2008. 日本語: 主の顕栄祭に用意された果物。正教会の顕栄祭では果物（主に葡萄）を成聖する習慣がある。日本正教会の聖堂で撮影。
context_page_description: The transfiguration of Jesus is a story told in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels describe it, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it. It has also been hypothesized that the first chapter of the Gospel of John alludes to it John 1:14.
  In these accounts, Jesus and three of his apostles, Peter, James, and John, go to a mountain to pray. On the mountain, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light. Then the prophets Moses and Elijah appear next to him and he speaks with them. Jesus is then called "Son" by a voice in the sky, assumed to be God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus.
  Many Christian traditions, including the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic Church and Anglican churches, commemorate the event in the Feast of the Transfiguration, a major festival.
context_section_description: The Feast of the Transfiguration is celebrated by various Christian denominations. The origins of the feast are less than certain and may have derived from the dedication of three basilicas on Mount Tabor. The feast was present in various forms by the 9th century, and in the Western Church was made a universal feast on August 6 by Pope Callixtus III to commemorate the lifting of the Siege of Belgrade (1456).
  In the Syriac Orthodox, Indian Orthodox, Revised Julian Calendars within Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches, the Feast of the Transfiguration is observed on 6 August. In those Orthodox churches which continue to follow the Julian Calendar, August 6 in the church calendar falls on August 19 in the civil (Gregorian) calendar. Transfiguration is considered a major feast, numbered among the twelve Great Feasts in the Byzantine rite. In all these churches, if the feast falls on a Sunday, its liturgy is not combined with the Sunday liturgy, but completely replaces it.
  In some liturgical calendars (e.g. the Lutheran and United Methodist) the last Sunday in the Epiphany season is also devoted to this event. In the Church of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, however, the Feast is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, the eighth Sunday after Pentecost.
  In the Roman rite, the gospel pericope of the transfiguration is read on the second Sunday of Lent, whose liturgy emphasizes the role the transfiguration had in comforting the Twelve Apostles, giving them a powerful proof of his divinity, and a prelude to the glory of the resurrection on Easter and the eventual salvation of his followers in view of the seeming contradiction of his crucifixion and death. This theme is expounded in the Preface for that day.
caption: First Fruits brought to be blessed on the Feast of the Transfiguration (Japanese Orthodox Church)
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