A Greater Light

For the Transfiguration reading during Lent. To the tune CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM (“Creator of the Stars of Night”):

 A greater light than we can bear
 illumines all the mountain peak
 as Christ reveals his nature there
 and shows the road before his feet.
  
 From mountain height to Calv'ry hill
 a bitter valley lies between,
 but Christ pursues his Father's will
 unto the death he has foreseen.
  
 For he is God's belovèd Son
 and to his Father offers all
 that we may live with God as one,
 in answer to our Father's call.
  
 The glory seen on Tabor's height
 holds Moses and Elijah rapt,
 and we are called into that light
 along the road that Christ has mapped.
  
 Come, then, and join in his descent
 from mountain light to valley dark.
 From every other road repent,
 and journey through his very heart.
  
 Until his light enfolds us there
 where Moses and Elijah praise,
 when love divine we've learned to bear
 and share with Christ for endless days.