Prayers
Chant – O Faithful Prepare for the Transfiguration of Christ
Apolytikion: You were Transfigured on the Mountain, O Christ God, showing to Your Disciples Your Glory as much as they could bear. Do also in us sinners though we may be shine Your Everlasting Light, by the Intercessions of the Theotokos. O Giver of Light, Glory to You!
Kontakion: On the Mountain You were Transfigured, O Christ God, and Your Disciples beheld Your Glory as far as they could see it; so that when they would behold You Crucified, they would understand that Your suffering was voluntary, and would proclaim to the world, that You are truly the Radiance of the Father!
A Prayer: He Who of old conversed with Moses on Mount Sinai through symbols, saying, “I Am that l Am, the One Who Is,” was Transfigured on Mount Tabor today for His Disciples to see. And since He had assumed human nature in Himself, He showed them the original beauty of the image. He presented Moses and Elias as witnesses of this Grace, and He let them share in the great joy, prefiguring what would follow through the Cross, namely the Glorious and Saving Resurrection.
A Prayer: When Your foremost Apostles saw Your illimitable illumination and Your unapproachable Divinity on the Mountain of Your Transfiguration, O Unoriginate Christ, they were changed by Divine ecstasy. As a bright cloud shone all around them, they heard the Father’s Voice confirming the Mystery of Your Incarnation, that even after becoming Human, You are One and the same Only-begotten Son and Saviour of the world.
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