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The Feast of the Transfiguration, 6th August 2018 In the story of the Transfiguration we are told that Jesus goes up a mountain to pray, taking Peter, John and James with him. On the mountain his face is changed , and his clothes become dazzling white. Moses and Elijah are seen talking to Jesus and the voice of God declares: ‘This is my Son, my chosen; listen to him’. (cf. Luke 9:28-36) As Christians we live our lives meditating on the story of Jesus; one way to enter that story is to seek to see his face . Jesus’ face, unknown as it is to us, is also deeply familiar. The subject of icons, iconography and religious paintings. We know Jesus, for instance, as the baby in his mother’s arms, as the child teaching in the temple, as a man being baptised, facing temptation in the desert, as the servant washing his disciples’ feet, blessing bread, in Gethsemane, on the Cross, greeting Mary Magdalene as the Risen Christ and ascending into Glory. Devotion to the face of Jesus a...