THE TRANSFIGURATION OF HEART

Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) explains what the essence of the Transfiguration is.

Our whole life has been consisting of a series of transfigurations since the creation. We are transfigured from a tiny cell into a full-fledged person, from a baby to a boy, from a boy to an adult. Throughout our lives, we voluntarily and involuntarily transform, taking colour from certain heroes, idols.

The life-giving power of transformation is putin a person.It’s embedded in hisnature. Probably, this is one of the deepest forces that drivesa person.

Transfiguration is a multi-level concept. Transforming one level, you go to another. And this process is endless.

By His Transfiguration, the Lord revealed to the apostles, and in their person to all people, the peak of man's spiritual ascent. We now know where to go, what to aspire after.

Our faith also transfigures sooner or later. Let's remember our thoughts and feelings ten years, or even a year or six months ago. If we grow spiritually, live a spiritual life, and do not hide behind it, we cannot help noticing changes in our relations with the Lord and the world.

Every day we discover something new and inspiring. We gradually change ourselves, but we don’t try to change the world around us. We consciously move away from the harmful and sinful things that destroy our life and contemplate more, internally moving away from the hustle and noise.

Our faith stops to be for a show, but it becomes quiet, peaceful.

Peacefulness is the fruit of inner transfiguration and the quality of true faith. Exactly this is precisely what we all lack. Peace is the edge of bliss, the touch of the Spirit of God, the light of God's grace. Spiritual transfiguration always leads to the transfiguration of earthly life. It is filled with light and pristine beauty.

The soul strives to find God. Because only in Him a real transformation is possible, which will never end, which has no boundaries, which is timeless and accessible to every brave man who has given his heart to the Lord.

Recorded by Natalia Goroshkova

Опубликовано: Thu, 19/08/2021 - 12:34

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