Jerusalem Pilgrimage 2018
Jerusalem Pilgrimage 2018
₦750,000.00
This is the ancient Holy City where the Temple once stood, Jerusalem is filled with landmarks associated with early Christianity. Participants interested in Christian holy sites may find themselves overwhelmed with the many holy sites located within the city.
It was here that Jesus challenged the Judean status quo with his teachings and eventually found himself condemned by the Roman government. It was here that the Last Supper took place, and it was here that he was crucified and resurrected. Over the millennia that followed, many places of worship and other Christian pilgrimage sites have been established.
Read further for various destination of our most pilgrimage-worthy holy sites in Jerusalem.
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DAY 1 Meet and Greet from arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. |
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DAY 2 Nazareth, a town where Jesus lived most of the first 30 years of his life on Earth. We will continue to Nazareth to visit the basilica of the Annunciation and the nearby Church of St. Joseph with the traditional Home of the Holy Family. Visit Mary's Well. Next we drive through the beautiful landscape of Lower Galilee, the home of many Jesus' disciples. Driving on Mt. Tabor, the Mount of the Transfiguration (Matth. 17:1-8), wonderful panoramic view. Then we continue along the crest of Mt. Carmel and Muhraka. |
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DAY 3 Starting this day with a drive on the Yardenit Baptism Site located on the banks of the Jordan River. We will drive around the western shores to visit the pilgrim shrines of the NW shores. Visit to the Mt. of Beatitudes, the scene of the Sermon on the Mount. Continue to Tabgha to visit the Church of the Multiplication of the Loves and Fishes and the nearby Chapel of the Primacy. Continue with a boat trip across the Sea of Galilee before we continue to have a St. Peter's Fish lunch. This is followed by a visit to the ruins of the ancient town of Capernaum which in Jesus' days was a flourishing border town, also known as "his own city" (Matth. 4:13). We will see the ancient synagogue and the "House of Peter". |
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DAY 4 Visit to Mt Precipice where the wrathfull inhabitants of Nazareth wanted to cast Jesus down headlong. We continue to cross the “The plain of Amageddon” and drive to Cana Wedding Church. Drive to Jericho the most ancient city in the World, stopping in the shade of sycamore tree of the kind which Zacchaeus climbed in order to see Jesus (Lk 19:1-10). Mt.of Temptation. View the Qarantal monastery (Matthew 4:8-11) We will drive along the shores of the Dead sea the lowest spot on the face of the earth. |
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DAY 5 Bethlehem. Visit the Basilica of the Nativity where there will be the opportunity to kneel at the birthplace of Christ in the Grotto of the Nativity. Before living Bethlehem, we shall visit the Fields of the Shepherds where the Angel of the Lord proclaimed the birth of the Messiah, the Savior of the World. Ein Karem where John Baptist was born, Church of St. John the Baptist and Church of the Visitation. |
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DAY 6 Jerusalem. We drive to the top of the Mount of Olives from which Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection. From the Mount there is a magnificent view over all ancient and modern Jerusalem, the center of the biblical world. We visit the holy shrines on the Mount Pater Noster church and walk on down the "Palm Sunday Road" visiting the Chapel of Dominus Flevit (Jesus wept) en route to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of all Nations where Christ prayed on the night of his betrayal (Luke 22: 40-46). |
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DAY 7 Start this eventful day with a visit to the Garden Tomb and Gordon's Golgotha. Jerusalem. We drive to Mt. Zion to visit the Upper Room and the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, which is built over the ruins of the Palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest before whom Jesus was brought for trial (Mark 14: 53-65). Jerusalem -- We shall enter within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem and walk in the footsteps of our Lord as he bore the burden of our sins to the Cross at Golgotha,. We visit the Pools of Bethesda where Jesus healed the man who had been crippled for 38 years (Joh. 5:1-9) and walk on following the Via Dolorosa 14 stations of the Cross from Pilate's Judgment Hall to the empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. We shall visit the Western Wall (Wailing Wall). |
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DAY 8 After breakfast depart the hotel and drive to Ben Gurion Airport to our Flight back Home. |
NB: If time permits we drive to Tel Aviv and the adjacent Joppa (Act: 9:36, 10:5, 11:5, 11:13) visiting the local basilica built on the location of Simon the Tanner’s house where the impure animals vision took place.
