{"id":4059,"date":"2026-02-15T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:11:31","slug":"celebration-for-transfiguration-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/celebration-for-transfiguration-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration for Transfiguration Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Transfiguration-Sunday-2023-Year-A.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening acclamation: Psalm 27:1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cO Worship the King\u201d, Uploaded to YouTube by \u201cbhepure isidoro\u201d; Used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Reading: Exodus 24:12-18, King James Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm 2, King James Version.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music interlude: Claude Gaudimel (c. 1520-1572) \u201cPsalm 2\u201d for organ and cello, performed on the Reformed Municipality of Hardinxveld-Giessendam \u2013 B\u00e4tz-Witte organ (1875), and uploaded to YouTube by \u201cCees en Sander\u201d, 2021; used in accordance with the Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading: 2 Peter 1:16-21, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cDear Lord and Father of Mankind\u201d, Stanza 5. From a 2012 recording by Immanuel UCC Hartford, available in the public domain at Archive.org.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord\u2019s Prayer: From Luke.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blessing: \u00a0The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers 6.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organ Postlude: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) \u201cWie sch\u00f6n leuchtet der Morgenstern\u201d BWV 739, performed by Thorston Ahlrichs on Christian Vater Orgel (1722) in Bockhorn, St. Cosmas und Damian, uploaded to YouTube by NOMINEeV, and used in accordance with Creative Commons License.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,65,27],"tags":[1484,1378,1433,336,677,1172,1202,1216,1233],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-music","category-underground-church","tag-dear-lord-and-father-of-mankind","tag-o-worship-the-king","tag-claude-gaudimel","tag-epiphany","tag-feasts-and-seasons","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-revised-common-lectionary","tag-virtual-church-service","tag-year-a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}