"And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17:2). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels ...

On 6 August the Church celebrated with great joy the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. It commemorated the episode in which Jesus went up the Mountain, probably Mount Tabor, with Peter, James ...

Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

Sunday, Feb. 28, is the Second Sunday of Lent. Mass Readings: Genesis 22:1-18 (excerpted); Psalm 116:10, 15-19; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10. It’s the Second Sunday of Lent already. It’s the Sunday on ...

At the pinnacle of the stained-glass windows in my college’s chapel, looming high above the majestic pipe organ in the balcony, is what students and alumni lovingly refer to as the transfiguration ...

Mount Tabor played an important role in the biblical history of the Land of Israel due to its strategic location on top of the mountain, which overlooks mostly flat terrain in every direction. From ...

The first scholar to seriously study flora and fauna in the Holy Land was Henry Tristram Baker, a 19th-century English clergyman with a penchant for natural science. On a journey to the land of the ...

[This entry derives from a flyer advertising an exhibition rather than from an actual exhibition catalogue.] Programme of the Celebrated Transparent Oil Paintings now on exhibition at Musical Hall ...