Coming Down the Mountain - Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration

LESSONS:

First Lesson            Exodus 24:12-18

Psalm                     Psalm 99

Second Lesson        Philippians 3:7-14

Gospel                   Matthew 17:1-9

 

COLLECT: O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.