Church of the Annunciation
A walk through the Church built over the grotto where Mary said, “Yes,” to the Angel...Sermon on the Mount, and a Sign
It was a most beautiful mass, on the side of the mountain from which Jesus gave his most famous sermon from which are derived the Eight Beatitudes. The open-air chapel was very small as there are about 15-20 similar small places on the side of the hill so that...The Third Day
We started the third day with a sermon on the mount. Father Brian gave the mass on the side of the Mount of Beatitudes, a vast hillside midway between Capernaum and Tabga. Tabga is the place where Jesus is said to have fed thousands with a small basket of fish and...The Pilgrimage: beginnings
It’s not a vacation said the brochure that came in the mail with the packet we got from Pentecost tours, which probably explains the forty-eight-hour first day, of which I’m about eight hours in. Presumably, that includes a solid eight hours in the friendly skies...
Mount of the Beatitudes
This site is the daily journal of a pilgrim on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with his wife and thirty others, to walk in the steps of Jesus. It’s mostly serious, a quest for meaning, a quest for faith, a quest for certitude.
S Melarvie