Assertion: transfiguration | /r/HasProperty | honored by the church
Facets:
value: in the festival of this day
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: This Transfiguration of Our Lord, full of lessons and instructions for us, is honored by the Church in the festival of this day, with a particular view to the raising up the thoughts and hopes of her children, in the midst of the hardships and labors of their mortal pilgrimage, to the eternal repose and glory of their heavenly country, that blessed Jerusalem which the true Israelites must never forget; though constrained as yet by a miserable captivity to sit down and weep upon the banks of the rivers of Babylon, and lament their distance from the house of God in Sion.