The August edition of "Bathed in Silent Light" is ready for your perusal. The subject is "The Transfiguration". The first post is by the late Father Jean Corbon OP. He was a Greek Catholic theologian in Lebanon and one of Pope Benedict XVI's favourite theologians. He wrote the section on prayer in the Catholic Catechism, and the introductory section to the sacraments on participation in the Christian Mystery is based on his theology. He writes on "The Significance of the Transfiguration". This is followed by a Greek Orthodox contribution on the same subject. Then we have Dom Alex Echeandia OSB, monk of my monastery in Peru, who is studying at Blackfriars, Oxford. He is also an accomplished iconographer and a pupil of Aidan Hart, the Orthodox iconographer. At present, Dom Alex is doing a course on iconography in the Catholic University in L'viv, in the Ukraine. He has written a post on "The Icon of the Transfiguration".
The light of the Transfiguration, being the effect of the union between divinity and humanity in the Incarnation, is invisible to the naked eye until Christ reveals it on Mount Tabor. Nevertheless, its presence can be sensed by the Grace of God, even when it is invisible. The other posts are about situations in the modern Church where the light of Christ can be sensed, even when it is not seen.
Go to the post by clicking on the title:
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INCARNATION
by Father Jean Corbon OP
FROM AN ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE
by George Mantzaredes
by Dom Alex Echeandia & others
ELDER PAISIOS
BLESSED CHARLES DE FOUCAULD
THE PATH OF LOVE: THE CONVENT OF ST ELIZABETH, THE ROYAL MARTYR, IN MINSK, WITH MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND THE OUTCASTS OF SOCIETY: THE GLORY OF GOD SHINES THROUGH THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN & REJECTED.
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