Transfiguration - Dom Gueranger, O.S.B.

[obscurus]

We must first notice that the glorious Transfiguration has already been twice brought before us on the sacred cycle---viz., on the second Sunday of Lent, and on the preceding Saturday. What does this mean, but that the object of the present solemnity is not so much the historical fact already known, as the permanent mystery attached to it; not so much the personal favour bestowed on Simon Peter and the sons of Zebedee, as the accomplishment of the great message then entrusted to them for the Church? Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of Man be rsien from the dead. The Church, born from the open side of the Man-God on the Cross, was not to behold Him face to face on earth; after His Resurrection, when He had sealed His alliance with her in the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, it , it is on faith alone that her love was to be fed. But by the testimony which takes the place of sight, her lawful desires to know Him were to be satisfied. Wherefore, for her sake, giving truce, one day of His mortal life, to the ordinary law of suffering and obscurity He had taken upon Him for the world's salvation, He allowed the glory which filled His blessed soul to transpire.

The King of Jews and Gentiles revealed Himself upon the mountain, where His calm splendour eclipsed for evermore the lightnings of Sinai; the covenant of the eternal alliance was declared, not by the promulgation of a law of servitude engraven upon stone, but by the manifestation of the Lawgiver Himself, coming as Bridegroom to reign in grace and beauty over hearts. Elias and Moses, representing the prophets and the Law whereby His coming was prepared, for their different starting-points, met beside Him like faithful messengers reaching their destination; they did homage to the Master of their now finished mission, and effaced themselves before Him at the voice of the Father: This is my beloved Son! Three witnesses the most trustworthy of all assisted at this solemn scene: the disciple of faith, the disciple of love, and that other son of thunder who was to be the first to seal with His bloodboth the faith and the love of an apostle. By His order they kept religiously, as beseemed them, the secret of the King, until the day when the Church could be the first to receive it from their predestined lips.

- The Liturgical Year

[maryetal]

In point of fact, who did declare Jesus King of the Jews?  Did the Church teach that He held that title from the beginning?

[AdoramusTeChriste]

 

In point of fact, who did declare Jesus King of the Jews?  Did the Church teach that He held that title from the beginning?

I just got this email and (I think) it answers your question:

 

The Transfiguration of Our Lord
J.M.J.


The Transfiguration of Christ is the culminating point of His public life,
as His Baptism is its starting point, and His Ascension its end. Moreover,
this glorious event has been related in detail by St. Matthew (17:1-6), St.
Mark (9:1-8), and St. Luke (9:28-36), while St. Peter (2 Peter 1:16-18) and
St. John (1:14), two of the privileged witnesses, make allusion to it.

About a week after His sojourn in Cæsarea Philippi, Jesus took with him
Peter and James and John and led them to a high mountain apart, where He was
transfigured before their ravished eyes. St. Matthew and St. Mark express
this phenomenon by the word metemorphothe, which the Vulgate renders
transfiguratus est. The Synoptics explain the true meaning of the word by
adding "his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as
snow," according to the Vulgate, or "as light," according to the Greek text.

This dazzling brightness which emanated from His whole Body was produced by
an interior shining of His Divinity. False Judaism had rejected the Messias,
and now true Judaism, represented by Moses and Elias, the Law and the
Prophets, recognized and adored Him, while for the second time God the
Father proclaimed Him His only-begotten and well-loved Son. By this glorious
manifestation the Divine Master, who had just foretold His Passion to the
Apostles (Matthew 16:21), and who spoke with Moses and Elias of the trials
which awaited Him at Jerusalem, strengthened the faith of his three friends
and prepared them for the terrible struggle of which they were to be
witnesses in Gethsemani, by giving them a foretaste of the glory and
heavenly delights to which we attain by suffering.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia (1912) -
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15019a.htm');" target=_blank target=_blank>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15019a.htm

--
Sincerely in Christ,
Our Lady of the Rosary Library
"Pray and work for souls."
http://olrl.org');" target=_blank target=_blank>http://olrl.org

 

[maryetal]

No, I'm sorry, but I still don't know if this is a title accepted by Jesus and declared for Jesus by the Church.  Thanks for answering, though.