Message of Metropolitan Hieronymos of Larissa and Tyrnavos on the Transfiguration of the Saviortranslated

A message for the Despotic Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is sent to the holy clergy and the pious people of the Local Church by the Metropolitan of Larissa and Tyrnavos Mr. Hieronymos. It states in detail:

The Feast of the Divine Transfiguration of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ shines brightly again! And it is celebrated in the summer season, so the tangible sun shines more than any other season. The event of the Transfiguration did not happen during the summer. It happened forty days before Good Friday, i.e. winter to spring. However, the quintessential Festival of Lights could not be celebrated in the dull winter or spring weather. We need the bright Greek summer to feel the glory of God in a tangible way.

Why don't we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration forty days before Good Friday? But because something like that would be completely inappropriate and unspiritual. Why? Because forty days before Good Friday we have already entered the Holy and Great Lent, the most spiritual period of the year, where sorrow for our sins and the effort to repent dominate. And during the period of Agia and...