„Apropiatu-s-a ziua dumnezeieștii veselii...” . Analiza imnografiei Înainte-prăznuirii Schimbării la Față a Domnului
The Day Of Divine Myrth Has Approached... An Analysis of the Hymnography for the Forefeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord

Author(s): Efrem MOCANU
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Transfiguration; Thabor; enlightening; glory; hymnography; Passion;
Summary/Abstract: The Transfiguration of Christ is one of the greatest and most explicit theophanies ever recorded in Christian tradition, The Glory and The Light being almost omnipresent in the New Testament Scriptures. As always, the hymnography of the feast notices, assumes, and enshrines the mistagogical significance which rises from the Scriptures and from the hermeneutics of the Fathers. This is why a believer who joins the life in Christ in Church understands that the Feast of Transfiguration is not only a remembrance of the first century Thabor event, but also an eschatological promise and an invitation for one to be part of the fulfilment of the Transfiguration that started on Thabor, surrounded by the entire Church: the Law, The Prophets, The Gospel and The Apostolic tradition, all into the same ‘cloud’ of the Holy Spirit. The luminous Grace which coated Jesus Christ was not something which He received in that moment, but His power which was now unveiled for the eyes of disciples, ‘inasmuch as they could bear’, to strengthen their faith in the light of Passion, which was close, preparing them to understand the real Glory and to recognise Him as the King of Glory (Ο Βασιλεὺς της Δόξης). The link between Thabor and Golgotha is visible not only because it respects the Gospel’s chronology, but also the hymnography attests it through plenty of references to the Cross, keeping the subtle trace of the place of the Feast of Transfiguration into the Great Lent’s context.

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