The tour bus (which has wifi Yay!) took us to the base of Mt. Tabor and we split up into vans which drove us 1,500 feet to the top of the mountain overlooking the Jezeel Valley of Galilee.
At the summit, we first gathered in an old crusader chapel.
and then celebrated mass in a beautiful church built and managed by the Franciscans - Basilica of the Transfiguration.
Mt Tabor will Moses and Elijah and God spoke to Jesus and John and James and Peter with Jesus radiating in Glory as He transfigured.
I loved that the Gospel that was read when we celebrated mass over the very site of the Transfiguration a few words were changed.
“After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.” is the regular verse but in the Gospel text above and only at this location it says not "a high mountain" but "this" mountain.
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