A great feast of the Lord
The Transfiguration of the Lord
On Mount Tabor Christ shone with divine light before the Apostles Peter, James and John, revealing the glory granted to those who unite the mind with God in prayer. St Gregory Palamas taught the prayer of the heart and this uncreated light of Tabor.
The dates
- Kept on
- 6 August (19 August on the Old Calendar)
- Next, New Calendar
- Next, Old Calendar
The New Calendar (the Greek, Antiochian, Romanian and Bulgarian churches, the OCA and most converts) keeps fixed feasts on the church date; the Old Calendar (the Russian, Serbian and Georgian churches, Jerusalem and Mount Athos) keeps them 13 days later. Pascha and the feasts that follow it are kept on the same day by both.
How the day is kept
The faithful bring grapes and the first fruits of summer to church for the feast.
The feast falls in the Dormition Fast, the two weeks of fasting before the Dormition of the Mother of God.
It is the second of the late-summer feasts of the Savior; the third, soon after, keeps the Image Not-Made-by-Hands carried from Edessa.
In Greek custom every Sotirios and Sotiria, named for the Savior, keeps the name day on this feast.
Name days
These names keep their name day on this feast:
The saint
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