Preobrazhenie Lord – Duccio di Buoninsegna 1308-1311 biennium
Obvious evidence of the festival come from the V century. On universal celebration of the Transfiguration in the VIII. and subsequent centuries in the East unanimously testify all liturgical monuments that have reached us from that time. St. John of Damascus and Cosmas Mayumsky made ??many songs on this holiday, which the Orthodox Church celebrates the event and at the moment.
The Transfiguration
Opened, mists,
Petrel on the wave,
fly hurricanes
In the endless sky.
In the bright day of Transfiguration
Spirit madman struck:
From bondage, of confusion of
Your voice he heard.
Now sad, now the poor,
In the bosom of the Eternal Father,
Near you, in the azure pale
Longs for a new end …
Only one country in the fog
(Puffin on the wave) –
restless Desire
With God – in the sky.
Alexander Blok, 1901
Preobrazhenie Lord. 1470 – 1490 period. Novgorod
The special features of this festival include the fact that in this day consecrated grapes and first fruits. This custom – the sacred and auspicious. The first fruits of the new harvest brought to the altar in the Old Testament, according to the Law of Moses:
“First of the firstfruits of thy land shall bring into the house of the Lord your God” (Exodus. 23.19)
“When you come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest” (Lev. 23.10)
“Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase” (Proverbs. 3.9)
Feast of the Transfiguration elected to bless the fruit, in Jerusalem, this time matures
grapes, which actually supposed to sanctify the day.
In those countries where no vines (including in Russia), the custom of sanctifying apples instead of grapes. Therefore, people feast of the Transfiguration was also the name of Feast. Feast of the Transfiguration – a reminder to us that, as it sometimes was difficult nor life, no matter how feeble we may seem to ourselves, whatever the apparent triumph of evil no matter what happens in the world around us and in the history of the universe – is a beloved creature of God and man – the crown of creation.
”
… That’s apples side leveling
Dale pull the fork branches …
And nod golden balls …
St. Saviour, everything in your will! ”
N.Timofeeva
Apple smells honeyesque
Belief in the holy salvation
The whole world celebrates Orthodox
Transfiguration of the Lord!
Hudozhnik Kuzin Sergei Semenovich
by Thomas Kinkade 2014 paintings