For every Despotic and Mother of God feast we have great joy no matter where we celebrate. But in the Holy Land everything is more real. There you feel like you are flying in the clouds. Sometimes you don’t realize what is happening to yourself, whether you are in heaven or on earth. And this doesn’t only happen to me, but to everyone who gathers for these feasts. Together with the touching of the Holy Light one of the greatest feasts is the Transfiguration of the Savior. On Mount Tabor on August 6/19 there appears the invisible wonder alongside this feast which cannot be seen in any church throughout the world unless God grants a personal revelation. There, on the night of August 18th towards August 19th during the Divine Liturgy in front of thousands of faithful and non-believers there descends on this sacred mountain a cloud. Non-believers – as I have heard from many of them – say that it is a meteorological phenomenon.
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In this instance, as with the Holy Light, these miracles, this consolation, God gives in the end for those who believe, because as the Bible says: “I came to give to those who have, and to take from those who do not have”. So God takes from those who have little faith and start to question God, His presence and actions in this world. But for those who say: “I Believe Lord, help my unbelief”, He reveals the greatest joy.
Indeed, there on Mount Tabor you understand why the Apostle Peter told Christ that he didn’t want to leave that place. Truly you do not want to leave Tabor. All worldly events pale before what is taking place on Mount Tabor.
P.S. On Mount Tabor, of the three churches only one is Orthodox [Greek]. From the testimonies of eyewitnesses the bright cloud descends only on the Orthodox Church.