Patriarchate of Jerusalem: The Feast of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabortranslated

With due ecclesiastical splendor, the feast of the Transfiguration of the Savior was celebrated on Mount Tabor, according to the old calendar, yesterday, Wednesday, August 19. During the Vespers service, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Acre - Ptolemais, Mr. Makarios, officiated, while during the all-night vigil, His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Mr. Theofilos, who was flanked by the Metropolitan of Acre - Ptolemais Mr. Makarios and the Elder Chief Secretary Archbishop of Constantine Mr. Aristarchos.

Read in detail the announcement of the Chief Secretariat of the Patriarchate:

On Wednesday, August 6th/19th 2026, the feast of the Divine Transfiguration was celebrated by the Patriarchate in Tabor, on which it took place.

During this feast, the whole Church, especially that of Jerusalem, remembers that a short time before His passion, in accordance with the Gospel narratives (Matthew 17,1-9, Mark 9,2-9, Luke 9,28-36) and the Patriarchs explanations, the Lord took three of His disciples, the "qualified ones" and ascended to a high place in person and there in front of them He was transformed, you hid His human nature a little and revealed His divine nature, "as far as possible" to...