The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ

"While the face of Jesus shone as the sun, his garments became white as snow. Now these garments so snow-white, as St. Mark observes, that no fuller on earth could have bleached them so, are the just men, the royal ornament inseparable from the Man-God, the Church, the seamless robe woven by our sweet Queen for her Son out of the purest wool and most beautiful linen that the valiant woman could find. Although our Lord personally has now passed the torrent of suffering and entered forever into his glory, nevertheless the bright mystery of the Transfiguration will not be complete until the last of the elect, having passed through the laborious preparation at the hands of the Divine Fuller, and tasted death, has joined in the Resurrection of our adorable Head. O Face of our Savior that dost ravish the heavens, then will all glory, all beauty, all love shine forth from thee. Expressing God by the perfect resemblance of true Son by nature, thou wilt extend the good pleasure of the Father to that reflection of his Word, which constitutes the sons of adoption, and reaches in the Holy Ghost even to the lowest fringes of his garment which fills the temple below him."
- Dom Prosper Gueranger on the Transfiguration

Ancient Sequence for the Solemnity of the Transfiguration

The solemn light of this day shineth upon the world:
Let the world worthily celebrate today’s feast:

Whereof the Law and the Prophets spake together in song.
What be the beauty of God’s house and its glory:

What dignity the human form retains in the saints world without end:
Christ’s adorable Transfiguration today doth shew.

He brought Peter, James, and John as witnesses.
He went up into the mount, with Moses and Elias in attendance.

The form of His human Body is transfigured.
The splendour and glory of the transformed Body are seen. 

Suddenly an immense light flashes all around.
His face becomes splendid as the sun.

His garments become white as snow.
Those who see this miracle are struck dumb.

​A luminous cloud envelops them,
The Father’s voice thunders from heaven:

This is the Son in whom is my special love,
In whom I am well pleased, and all things are rendered pleasing to me.

Rejoice O Christian assembly who believe in God!
By suffering with him, ye shall reign with Christ for aye.

From the saints’ eyes every tear shall be wiped away.
The just shall rejoice, and shine with light everlasting.

There shall be no more mourning, nor dolour, nor vexation.
Peace shall be supreme, and joy perpetual.

They shall then reign with God in glory:
Therein to reign with Him forever

May His all-powerful grace to us vouchsafe. Amen.

“O God, who in the glorious transfiguration of thine only-begotten Son, didst confirm the mysteries of the faith by the testimony of the fathers: and who, in the voice which came from the bright cloud, didst in a wonderful manner fore-signify our adoption as sons: mercifully vouchsafe to make us fellow-heirs of that King of glory, and the sharers of his bliss.” Such