KTO is broadcasting live the Christmas Eve Mass celebrated on Tuesday, December 24, starting at 10:20 p.m. live from the Church of Saint Catherine in Bethlehem. In the heart of the Holy Land, this celebration presided over by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is an opportunity to pray particularly for peace in this region ravaged by conflict. At the end of the Mass, a procession will take place to the Grotto of the Nativity. For Christians, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, Son of God, the awaited Savior, announced by the prophets. Since the 6th century, liturgical tradition has proposed celebrating three masses at Christmas: at night, at dawn and in the middle of the day. It is the same mystery that is celebrated but, each time, with its own color and different texts. Thus, the first mass was celebrated at midnight because it is a symbolic hour: it marks the arrival of the new day and therefore the passage from darkness to light. All of KTO's Christmas programming on ktotv.com