Nov. 22 to Dec. 3, 2024
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
November 22 to
December 3, 2024 Pilgrimage
November 22 to December 3, 2024 Pilgrimage
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for May 22 to June 1, 2025 Pilgrimage)
Roy will be leading
a pilgrimage to the Holy Land November 22
to December 3, 2024.
Roy's pilgrimages are
distinctive in that they have the Traditional
Latin Mass daily, highlight the Jewish roots of
the Catholic Church, are kept small (limited to
24 pilgrims), stay in religious houses whenever
possible, and in all aspects are designed to
maximize prayer.
Price including
roundtrip airfare from New York City only $3950
p.p.d.o. (with cash or check discount)
Daily Mass will be in the
Traditional Latin Rite
The
focus on Prayer is what makes this pilgrimage
different:
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Our group is
limited to 26 pilgrims, ensuring a prayerful,
recollected and intimate atmosphere. (Other
groups can have 50, 100, or 200 along).
DETAILED ITINERARY FOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
2024 HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE
Friday November 22: We meet up at JFK airport
(New York City) for our flight to Tel Aviv on
Air France. Flight departs at 5:30pm, allowing
most to fly in the same day from their
originating airport. (Note:
NYC departure airport and time subject to change
until 60 days before departure.) Arrival at
airport at least 4 hours before flight time is
recommended.
Each day of our trip, we will have breakfast and
dinner at the pilgrimage house where we stay,
and a Traditional Latin Mass celebrated by our
accompanying Priest at one of the shrines we
will be visiting.
Saturday November 23: We land in Israel at
2pm, and proceed on a chartered motor coach to
our lodgings overlooking the Sea of Galilee at
the very peaceful “Beth Haccerem” Pilgrim House.
Dinner, Mass, and bed.
Sunday November 24
and Monday Nov. 25: We have two days to
visit and pray at the Holy Places around the Sea
of Galilee. The precise order depends on the
altars we are able to reserve for Mass each day.
Our visits will include:
• Capernaum, the town where
Jesus lived during much of His public ministry
(Mt 4 and 8, Mk 1-2, Lk 4 and 7), praying at the
home of Peter (where Jesus stayed) and in the
Synagogue there where Jesus gave the “Bread of
Life” discourse (Jn 6), and will see the ruins
of the ancient town.
• Tabgha the spot where Jesus
multiplied the Loaves and Fishes prefiguring the
miracle of the Eucharist. Kursi on the Sea of
Galilee, where Jesus cast the “Legion of Demons”
out of the demoniac and into the swine who ran
into the Sea (Mk 5, Lk 8). We will visit and
pray at the cave where the demoniac lived, with
some deliverance prayer if our Chaplain wishes.
• The “Primacy of Peter” (aka
“Mensa Christi”), where Jesus appeared after the
Resurrection, prepared breakfast for the
Apostles who were fishing, and told Peter “feed
my lambs… tend my sheep (Jn 21).
• The Mount of Beatitudes,
where Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount (Mt
5-6)
• Chorazin, the town Jesus
cursed for its unbelief (Mt 11, Lk 10)
• Safed, the world center of
Jewish mysticism, praying in one of the medieval
synagogues there.
• A sunset sail in a “Jesus
boat” on the Sea of Galilee
Tuesday, November 26: Leaving the Sea of
Galilee, we go to Mt. Tabor, the site of the
Transfiguration (Mt 17, Mk 9, Lk 9), and Deo
volente, celebrate our Traditional Latin Mass
(TLM) in the Basilica there. (I request the
particular altar but sometimes it is
unavailable). Then onto Cana, where Jesus’ first
public miracle, turning water into wine, took
place. Those who wish can “renew” their wedding
vows there. Then onto Nazareth, where we stay
two nights at the “Rosary Sisters” Pilgrimage
House, a short (but hilly) walk from the
Basilica of the Annunciation. Each morning and
evening, whoever wants usually can walk to the
Basilica for private prayer directly in front of
the Grotto of the Annunciation, only a few feet
from where the Word became Flesh. Usually
we are the only ones there at those times.
Wednesday, November 27: We have a full day in
Nazareth to pray at the Holy sites there.
In addition to the Basilica with the Grotto of
the Annunciation, these include:
• The recently discovered tomb
of St. Joseph’s Tomb (over which we will
have Holy Mass)
• Mary’s Well, where she went
to draw water each day
• St. Joseph’s workshop
• The synagogue in Nazareth
where Jesus read from the Scriptures, saying
“Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing." (Lk 4:16)
• The garden of the Poor Clare
convent where St. Charles de Foucauld lived as
gardener.
Thursday, November 28: We leave Nazareth for our
final 4 days in Jerusalem, stopping on the way,
security situation permitting, at Jericho*, at
the very spot on the Jordan River where Jesus
was baptized by John (Mt 3). Not coincidentally,
it is also the very same spot where the Jewish
people first entered into the Promised Land led
by Joshua (Josh. 3), the same name as “Jesus” in
Hebrew, and where Elijah crossed over and was
taken up to Heaven in the fiery chariot (2 Ki
2). Then we will ascend the Mount of Temptation
by cable car, to the cave where Jesus fasted and
prayed for 40 days in preparation of His public
ministry (Mt 4, Mk 1, Lk 4). It is now within an
Orthodox monastery and church. There we will be
able to pray at the very stone on which He sat
while Satan tempted Him. Leaving Jericho for
Jerusalem, we will stop to view the dramatic
Monastery of Saint George, built in the 5th
century over the cave where Elijah hid from
Jezebel and was fed by ravens (1 Ki 17), and
also at Bethany, visiting the house of Lazarus,
Martha, and Mary Magdalene (now a church) where
Jesus often stayed, including during Holy
Week. We may be also be able to descend to
Lazarus’ tomb and pray there. Arriving in
Jerusalem, we will check in at our Pilgrimage
House in the heart of the Old City a short walk
from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where we
will stay for the rest of the trip.
N.B. During our time in Jerusalem, we will be
staying close enough to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre to be to walk there each morning
before breakfast for an hour or two of private
prayer, and before dinner for the same. There we
can pray at the tomb from which Jesus
Resurrected, the literal Foot of the Cross, the
stone of the Anointing, at the pillar on which
Jesus was Crowned with Thorns, etc. Deo volente,
those who wish may also have the opportunity to
spend the night in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre being locked in, with permission, at
7pm when it closes until 5am when it reopens.
Friday, November 29 through
Sunday December 1:
We have 4 full days in Jerusalem. There
are incredible altars available to pilgrimage
groups there – at the foot of the Cross on
Calvary, inside the Tomb itself in the Holy
Sepulchre, on the stone where Jesus sweat blood
in Gethsemane, etc. I request these
altars, but it is up to the shrine when they
grant them to us, so I schedule the particular
days around the altar times we get for Holy Mass
(Traditional). The following are typical of our
days in Jerusalem, but which day is when depends
on the altar assignments. Remember, each day can
begin with several hours of quiet prayer in the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, if one so desires.
Friday November 29: in and around the Old City:
• praying the Stations of the
Cross at the original stations
• St. Anne’s house (birthplace
of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
• the Pool of Bethzatha (Jn 5)
where Jesus healed the man ill for 38 years
• the Church of the
Flagellation, where Jesus was whipped under
orders of Pontius Pilate
• Ecce Homo, where Pontius
Pilate displayed the scourged Jesus to the crowd
• Gabbatha, the pavement in
front of Pontius Pilate’s Palace where the Jews
cried out “His blood be on us and our children”
• the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre (where we are often able to have Mass)
• the Jewish quarter and
praying at the Western Wall
• the Church of the Dormition,
where according to Catholic tradition the
Blessed Virgin Mary fell asleep and was assumed
into heaven
• St. Stephen’s Priory, where
St. Stephen was stoned shortly after the
Crucifixion (Acts 6 and 7)
Saturday November 30: Spent in Bethlehem and Ein
Karem
Bethlehem, visiting and praying at:
• the Birth Cave (in the
Basilica of the Nativity) where Jesus was born
• the Milk Cave where he was
nursed by the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Shepherd’s Field where the
shepherds heard the angels announce the birth of
the Messiah.
After lunch in Bethlehem we proceed to Ein
Karem, where we visit and pray at:
• the home of Elizabeth and
Zachariah (now a Church) at the very spot where
John the Baptist was born
• the location where Mary
encountered Elizabeth and the Visitation took
place
• the “hideout” of John the
Baptist in the wilderness
• the Tomb of the noted Jewish
Catholic convert Alphonse Ratisbonne
Sunday December 1: The Old City, starting on the
Mount of Olives:
• the site of Jesus’ Ascension
(Acts 1) on the top of the Mount of Olives
• the Pater Noster Cave (Lk
11) where Jesus taught the disciples the Our
Father
• Dominus Flevit (Lk 13) where
Jesus wept over the failure of the Jews to
accept Him and the destruction of Jerusalem
• the Church of the Agony,
over the very stone on which Jesus prayed the
night before His crucifixion, and sweat blood
(Lk 22)
• the Cave of Betrayal, where
Peter, James and John slept while Jesus was
undergoing the agony
• the tomb where, according
the Orthodox tradition Mary was entombed before
the Assumption.
• Gallicantu, praying in the
very prison cell under Caiaphas’ house (Jn 18)
where Jesus was taken right after the Agony in
the Garden, and at and on the very steps in
front of the palace that Jesus was dragged up
that night.
Monday December 2: Free to revisit places. If
there is interest, Roy may take those who wish
to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum).
After an early supper, we depart Jerusalem for
an overnight non-stop flight back home, arriving
very early morning on Tuesday, December 3.
Please note: This is not a typical
“pre-programmed” pilgrimage tour. The sequence
of visits and how long we spend at each holy
site is determined by the prayer we experience
there, when where our Masses are scheduled, the
preferences of the group, the inspirations of
our Priest, and unforeseen opportunities
presented by the Holy Spirit. Itinerary
details subject to change
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For full details, registration form, etc.
go to:
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tinyurl.com/RoyNovember2024
or blog.siftj.org or Roy's website:
www.salvationisfromthejews.com
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or email Roy at
pilgrimage@salvationisfromthejews.com
* itinerary details subject to
change
See
photos from the May 2023 trip at https://tinyurl.com/RoyMay23 !
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