Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the IAPM
August 19, 2016 Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (IAPM) celebrated the day of the Transfiguration. On the territory of academic chapel in honor of St. George was held the ceremony of consecration of honey, apples, grapes and other fruits. Archpriest Dionysius Martyshin, Head of Ukrainian Orthodoxy and theology IAPM, in his welcoming speech to the faculty, professors, teachers, students, employees of the Academy, said: "Every year, the entire Orthodox world joyfully celebrates the feast of Transfiguration Christi. It is worth mentioning that this is the sanctification and spiritualization of the human being. Tabor the divine light, which revealed on Mount Tabor Lord Jesus Christ, speaks not only about His divine nature, his power, the power to create, transform, transform the nature and the world, but also gives to all mankind the joy and the sense of God's presence in the life of every human being and of the whole nation.
It is no accident that on that day, Christians consecrate grapes, apples and honey. By accepting blessed sweetness, Christians make some spiritual parallels: the knowledge of God, self-knowledge, the joy of the results in science, education, creativity is the highest spiritual pleasure of a person on his self-improvement path. The Transfiguration feast unites us to the spiritual enjoyment of communion with God, sanctification, purification and renewal of heart, mind and soul.
Such church life – the phenomenon of Divine energy, light and power, which really makes the material existence of human. In today's feast of the Transfiguration Church speaks not only about the spiritual aspirations of mankind, but most of all about the realism of the existence in our lives of the living God. Without the transformation process can not be a true Christian life. Only a radically changing, turning away from evil, walking the path of love, mercy, forgiveness, holiness, doing good, man is able to know God. In a state of indignation, complaints, condemnation, anger, anguish, grief, and despair, God can not be known. Orthodox constantly reminds man of the light of knowledge of God, science, about the life of society in a mysterious, mystical communion with God and His Holy Church.