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healing powers. Drive up to Jerusalem Field where angels appeared to the
and check into hotel for dinner and shepherds to announce the birth of
overnight. Jesus. Last stop is the holiest site of the
Jewish nation, the Western Wall. Back to
Day 6: Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, the hotel for dinner and overnight.
Wailing Wall
After breakfast we drive up the Mount Day 7: Old City of Jerusalem, Mt.
of Olives stopping at the Church of the Zion, Israel Museum
Ascension then the Church of Pater After breakfast, proceed to the old city
Noster where we will see different of Jerusalem stopping first at the Church
translations of the Lord’s Prayer. Walk of St. Anne and the pool of Bethesda.
along the Palm Sunday Road passing by Continue walking along the Via Dolorosa,
the Franciscan Church of the Dominus also called the “Way of the Cross”. There
Flevit, where the Lord wept and shed are fourteen stations along the route
a tear for the city of Jerusalem. We each commemorating an event along
continue on the Palm Sunday Road Jesus’ route to crucifixion. End up at the
ending at the Garden of Gethsemane Church of the Holy Sepulchre. On to Mt.
and the Church of All Nations. On Zion to visit the room of the Last Supper,
to Bethlehem to visit the Church of King David’s Tomb and the Church of
the Nativity built over the tomb of St. Dormition, where the Blessed Virgin
Geronimo. In the grotto under the altar, Mary fell into eternal sleep. Continue on
see the silver star which marks the place to the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu,
of Jesus’ birth. Next door to the Church built on the site of the house of high
of the Nativity is the Roman Catholic priest Caiaphas. It is on this site that
church of St. Catherine. It is in this Peter denied Jesus three times. Visit
church that Christmas midnight mass is the Israel Museum to see the Second
celebrated and relayed throughout the Temple Model and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
world via satellite. Visit the Shepherd’s Drive back to the hotel for dinner and
overnight.
Day 8: Bethany, Ein Karem, future mother of Jesus with the words
Emmaus, Departure “blessed art thou among women”. Mary
After breakfast visit Bethany, the village responded with the “Magnificat”, a song
of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. It is the of praise to the Lord. Proceed Emmaus
scene of the great miracle of the raising in Abu Gosh, where you will find a tiny
of Lazarus to life by Jesus. On to Ein Romanesque Crusader city built in 1142
Karem, the birthplace of John the Baptist. atop three Roman cisterns. Continue to
A slow and uphill climb to the Church of the airport for your departure flight.
the Visitation where Mary went to see
her cousin Elizabeth who greeted the
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