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Northern Galilee and Golan Heights Day and sites around the Sea

Everyone got a nice full night of sleep last night. Then we took off for Mass at the Mount of Beatitudes before driving north for an hour to Caesarea Philippi, which today is called Banias. We have to drive along the Lebanese border to get to the site. Then we stop at the Druze restaurant for my favorite lunch of the trip with Druze bread sandwiches and falafel‘s. Then we stop at the border with

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3 Rosary Sites Today: Transfiguration, Cana and Annunciation in Nazareth

Our first full day in the Holy Land. An early morning start, but everyone thanks us later 🙂 Up the Mount of Transfiguration to discuss the typology of Mount Sinai and Mount Tabor and everyone loves the parallels. Then to Cana to renew wedding vows and discuss St. John chapter 2, which is also full of amazing biblical parallels. Then a good Nazareth-style lunch before heading to the Church of Annunciation for the 3rd Mystery

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How exciting to pick up a new group at the airport

It’s always fun and exciting to pick up a new group at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. It means we have eight exciting days to show these good folks all of our favorite places in the world —the way Catholics should see them. Fr. James Conlon is again our priest and Amer and his son Patrick are our two guides. we are ettled in at the beautiful U Boutique Hotel in Tiberias, which

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Our Instructional Walk thru Jerusalem on Yom Kippur 2023

Today it’s a bit like Twilight Zone in Jerusalem. All the streets are barricaded, all the shops are closed, and the city of Jerusalem is fasting and making repentance on the day of Yom Kippur. Of course, the Christians and the Muslims do not participate, but since the Jews are in control of vast areas of Israel, it is pretty much shut down for the high and holy Day of Atonement. In the video Janet

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My short, fast-paced talk on Padre Pio

I gave the short talk, standing on a wall at Padre Pio’s shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo Italy for our group a few years ago. It was kind of impromptu and came out pretty well. Enjoy! We are doing our very popular “Saints and Shrines of Italy“ pilgrimage again twice in 2025 for the Jubilee year. Keep your eye on my website at www.footprintsofgod.com and we hope you can join us.

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