Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
DAY 5 JESUS' GALILEAN MINISTRY - CAESAREA PHILIPPI
- Visit to the Yigal Allon Centre to view a 2,000 year old Galilean fishing boat
- Visit to the Church of the Beatitudes followed by a walk through a field of lilies and an olive grove
- Service of Holy Communion on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
- Visit to the Church of Multiplication (Loaves and Fishes) at Tabgha
- Visit to the Church of Peter's Primacy
- Travel to Capernaum, the home of Peter's mother-in-law, and to see the remains of synagogue from the time of Jesus
- Lunch at a Druze village on the Golan Heights
- Onto Caesarea Philippi, (present day Banias), the source of the Jordan river
- Spent a second night at Kibbutz Ein Gev
DAY 6 CANA - NAZARETH
- Travel to Cana
- Visit a church that preserves the memory of Jesus turning water into wine
- Travel to Nazareth
- Visit the Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches of the Annunciation
- Lunch with an Anglican Christian Community
- Trip over the Jezreel Valley to view the ancient aqueduct on the Mediterranean coast
- Arrived at the Knight's Palace Hotel in the Old City of Jerusalem
- Evening walk through the streets of the Old City
DAY 7 MOUNT OF OLIVES
- Drive to Bethany, the village in which Martha, Mary and Lazarus lived
- Visit to the tomb of Lazarus
- Visit to the Church of Pater Noster (Our Father)
- Descend the western slope Mount of Olives
- Stop off at the sanctuary called Dominus Flavit (Latin: The Lord wept) overlooking Jerusalem
- Visit to the Basillica of the Agony, the traditional site of where Jesus prayed before his arrest
- Travel around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem
- Walked the recently excavated Roman steps on the site of Caiaphas' palace where Jesus was held
- Walk back to the hotel through the Zion Gate
- Visit to the excavated ruins of the Pool of Bethesda
