HOLY LAND  ONLY

December 18-27-2006

Day 1 –  Depart NY   for overnight flight to Tel Aviv.   Dinner served aboard the flight.

Day 2  –  After enjoying the flight, arrived at Tel Aviv Airport where the group will be met by our tour guide.  Transfer by deluxe motor coach to the hotel in Tel Aviv. Balance of the day at leisure for personal sightseeing and shopping. Dinner at Hotel

Day 3 – In the morning, departure from Tel Aviv.  travel to Yaffo, the old city where St. Peter opened up the Church to the Gentiles and the site where Jonah began his voyage. On the way go to  Caesarea Maritime, one of the oldest dioceses in the Holy Land and place of the one the most important Christian libraries in the second century See the old Roman Aqueduct, the impressive theatre and the harbor. In the way to the north is Haifa the industrial city of Israel.  Go into the cave where Elijah lived and prayed and the place were the Devotion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel started.

Day 4 and 5  -Go to Galilee, visit the the ruins of the city of Kfarnaum, where a great part of Jesus life took place. Walk in the ruins of Betsaida, the birthplace  of many of the apostles. Banias, the church of primate of Peter.  Walk the Mount of Beatitudes, the site of the Sermon on the Mount. From there to Tabga, site where Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. Walk along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Church of Primacy  -  Visit the city of Nazareth, where Jesus spent His infant and adolescent years. Enter the Basilica of the Annunciation and St. Joseph’s workshop. Visit the Church of Cana,  the place where Jesus’ first miracle was witnessed , the Wedding at Cana. Travel to Jerusalem. In the route, renew of the baptism compromises in the Jordan River. Arrive to Jerusalem in the evening 

Day 6- Visit in the New City of Jerusalem, the “Yad Vashem” Memorial to the Holocaust,  –  Continue to Ain Karem, the birthplace of St. John the Baptist and the House of Elizabeth and Zachariah .

Day 7.- Travel through the Judean desert to Qumram, place of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Bathe in the Dead Sea

Day 8–  Spend time in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Walk the Via Dolorosa, the Ecce Homo, St. Peter in Gallile Canto. In the Mount of Olives, the Church of Dominus Flevit, Mary of Magdala Tomb, the Tomb of Mary, the Blessed Mother, Month Scopus, Ascension Church, the Our Father Church. In Betania, the Church of Lazarus. In Mt. Sion the Tomb of David, the Cenacle,  the Dormition Abbey  , Bethlehem, the Nativity Church, the Shepherds place,  and more. See where Jesus lived and died

Day 9 –  After breakfast, courtesy visit to the , Latin Patriarch for Holy Land. Rest of the day at leisure.

Day 10– Departure from Israel back home. End of the Pilgrimage

December 18 to 27 Price  $ 2,950.00

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