Day 26 Dear Friends, After a good night’s sleep, most of us have recovered from the 2-4 hours of sleep we had the previous night. A group of us left the college at 8 a.m. for a tour of the city with our first stop at Piazza Navona and the great church of Sant’ Agnese [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Inspired in Rome
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Celebrating the Holy Trinity in Rome
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 25 Dear Friends, At 1:15 a.m. we pulled out of the parking lot of the Blue Bay hotel. We drove through the night with Waheed at the wheel, making good time through the outlying suburbs of Tel Aviv. We survived the security check, with about half of us having to open our [...]
Prayers for healing in the Church
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 24 Dear Friends, The day has been quiet and sunny. Monsignor offered Mass for us in one of the rooms and preached about the meaning of a pilgrimage. We then had two hours of adoration asking for healing in the Church from the wounds of abuse. We split up for lunch [...]
Mount Carmel
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 23 Dear Friends, The hateful hamsin continued blowing dust everywhere this morning. Monsignor Monforton arrived safely last night and was up for the 7 a.m. Mass in the garden of the Mount of Beatitudes guesthouse. After Mass, we had a brief breakfast, said goodbye to the people we’d met and got on the [...]
Where Jesus walked …
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Day 22 Dear Friends, We began with breakfast, sorting our tables out among the tables of the Germans (“Guten morgen!” with a smile) the other seminary students (from across the States) and the Italians (with their priest who cries in Italian, “I don’t speak English! God bless the seminarians!”). Along with the usual breakfast fare of [...]
“The Word of God became flesh here”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Day 21 Dear Friends, Once more, I got carried away, wrote a long email and then lost it because I’d taken too long to write! So, somewhat more briefly, we began the day on the towering heights of Mount Tabor, the mount apart from Matthew’s Gospel. Those of us on the south side of [...]
Taybeh, the biblical city of Ephraim
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 19 Dear Friends, As we walked out of the guest house, our driver, Waheed appeared wearing a winter coat — there was a stiff breeze and it was cool. We boarded our bus and headed north and east, past the growing suburbs and into the hills and valleys to the north We soon [...]
The Upper Room
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Day 18 Dear Friends, Today is our last day of visiting Jerusalem and we began a little after 7 with a trip back to Mount Zion. We were scheduled for the 8 a.m. Mass and arrived a little early. We had an orientation to the site from the time of Jesus to the present. At [...]
Mount Zion
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 17 Dear Friends, We are back at the guesthouse after several hours in the city. We began with a trip to Mount Zion, to St. Peter in Gallicantu, where Jared gave a good summation of the site. We went to the Belevedere, the look out point and saw a particularly good view of the [...]
Day OFF
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 16 Dear Friends, Yesterday I e-mailed a friend and explained that we were going to have a day off today; he responded saying that every day has sounded like a day off. Fair enough. Not exactly tough duty. But, fraternity works better when there are spaces and times away so we split up [...]
