Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: "Jesus led them up a high mountain"

And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

-- Mk 9:2-10

Christ's Transfiguration aims at strengthening the apostles' faith in anticipation of his Passion: the ascent on to the "high mountain" prepares for the ascent to Calvary. Christ, Head of the Church, manifests what his Body contains and radiates in the sacraments: "the hope of glory" (Col 1:27; cf.: St. Leo the Great, Sermo 51, 3: PL 54, 310C).

-- CCC 568