A video reflection on the Feast of the Transfiguration

The Dean of Norwich, the Very Revd Dr Andrew Braddock, shares a reflection ahead of the Feast of the Transfiguration which takes place on Tuesday 6 August.

Watch the video message above and read the full text below.

"I'm standing in the north aisle here at Norwich Cathedral. In previous centuries this was always a rather gloomy and dull part of the building, not least because its windows face north and therefore only get direct light very much towards the end of the day.

But all that started to change in 2014 when the three new windows which you can see behind me were installed. They have had the most remarkable effect on this part of the Cathedral, even when there's only a little light, because it comes through the beautiful colours of the glass that in turn illuminates a previously gloomy part of the Cathedral with fresh light and colour giving it a vibrancy and sense of life that it simply didn't have before.

I know that with many of our visitors to Cathedral, encountering the light in this space brings to them a special sense of the quality and beauty of this part of the Cathedral.

In the Christian gospels the theme of light is never far away as a way of describing the message and the person of Jesus Christ.

He is the one we believe in, whom the Light of God shines through into our world, to bring light, and truth, and grace and joy into human lives.

We trust in Jesus as the one who can illuminate us, leading us in His ways.

And so these windows, in the way the light shines through them and the glass transfigures the light to bring beauty into this part of the Cathedral, is a wonderful analogy for the way in which Jesus brings into the world the Light and Truth of God, transforming us as we respond and allow our own lives to have the Light of Christ shed abroad in them."