Every 6 August, the Custos of the Holy Land celebrates the solemn stational liturgy of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tabor, with the participation of a large number of local worshippers and pilgrims. As tradition has it, the solemn stational liturgy took place on the site where, according to the Gospels, the Transfiguration of Jesus took place: "on a high mountain […] his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17, 2). […]
In Bethlehem the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, in a way similar to the Holy Sepulchre procession, hold another daily procession, which is also old and in which numerous pilgrims take part. It is the procession in the Basilica of the Nativity: it visits the most important places of the birth of the Saviour, from the grotto where he was born to the grottoes that wind through the underground part of the Basilica. “Like all the processions […]
