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The Biblical account of the Transfiguration is a fascinating one. In today's Gospel reading we will hear Matthew's description of this unusual event when Jesus' "face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light." For many of us this is one more proof of the divinity of Christ and perhaps of symbolic value, but it is often hard to connect it with anything practical in our lives. The eastern Orthodox churches have always held this to be of central importance not only in the life of Jesus, but in the lives of believers down through the ages. They have seen this to be of major practical value and their insights are significant ones. As with so much of the Bible, this account is given not merely to inform us, but to transform us and it is in this transformation that we find the practical value of this beautiful passage.