Meditation for the Second Sunday of Lent

Meditation on the Transfiguration

(Gospel for Second Sunday of Lent)

Troparion

You were Transfigured on the Mount,
O Christ God,

Revealing Your glory to Your disciples as far as they could bear it.

Let Your everlasting Light shine upon us sinners!

Through the prayers 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!

Troparion

Come, you faithful, let us welcome the Transfiguration of Christ,

And let us joyfully cry as we celebrate the prefeast:

"The day of holy gladness has come;

The Lord has ascended Mount Tabor

To radiate the beauty of His divinity."

-Taken from the Byzantine Liturgy for the Feast of the Transfiguration