I cannot improve on the words of Fr Dwight Longenecker:
"At the Transfiguration Christ's glory is revealed to the Apostles in the midst of Elijah and Moses because they were given the same grace: Moses on Mt Sinai, and then Elijah on Mt Horeb (and did you know that Horeb is just another name for Sinai?) So Elijah went to the same holy mountain where Moses had encountered God. But their epiphanies were complementary. Moses beheld God in the earthquake, fire and thunder on the mountain. Elijah in the still, small voice. Both pointed to the coming of Christ the Tiger. He who comes with the power and majesty of God, but in the form of the meek and gentle Master. He is both the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God."
Those of us whose spirituality is centred on Eucharistic Adoration should make a particular effort to keep all the Feasts of Our Lord, in the Extraordinary Form where discontinued in the Ordinary, and whichever of the Eastern Rites if not featured in the Latin.
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And I cannot improve on the words of your comments.
ReplyDeleteIs the text in italics by you or by him? In any case, what Feasts of the Lord are present in the Old Rite but not post-V2? The Transfiguration is present in both, but given much more prominence in the Eastern Rites - in which (NB) there is no such thing as Eucharistic Exposition/Adoration.
ReplyDeleteOh, but there is, Andrew (the words in italics are mine, by the way). The attempts to suppress it in the Ukraine on the grounds that it is a "Latinisation" have actually caused a schism, with priests determined to maintain it being ordained by the Lefebvrists.
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