Your Tour Includes:

• Roundtrip air. PILGRIMAGE TO THE • Accommodation for 9 nights HOLY LAND • All hotel taxes and service charges WITH • Breakfast and dinner daily FR. MARC BISHOP • 1 lunch at the Mount of Beatitudes on - May 18 • Farewell dinner at a local restaurant in Old Jaffa on May 20 • Comprehensive sightseeing with a licensed Christian guide • All entrance fees as per itinerary • Land transportation by private deluxe Motorcoach • Arrival and departure transfers IN THE FOOTSTEPS • Porterage of one piece of luggage at airports and hotels OF JESUS • Tips and gratuities for driver, escort 207 626 -0555 and local guides. 800 -879 -3823

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Tour Price: Based on Double: $4199.00

MAY 24 -June 3,2021 – ITINERARY Day 5 May 28: This morning we visit the of St. Anne where the Continue on to the Sea of Galilee and proceed to

Day 1 – May 24: Depart U.S.A. Blessed Virgin Mary was born, the Pool of Bethesda Magdala, the hometown of Mary Magdalene, where Our pilgrimage begins today as we depart on our where Jesus healed the paralytic man and where we will we will celebrate Mass an visit an ancient have a Anointing Service, the Chapel of Flagellation, where experts say Jesus may well have taught. Then overnight flight to . Meals and drinks served - aloft. Lithostrotos, and Arch of the "Ecce Homo". Then drive a short distance to Tiberias for check in at our follow the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy hotel located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. (B/D) – Sepulcher to visit Golgotha and the Tomb of the Risen Day 2 May 25: Arrive Tel Aviv / Jerusalem – After arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv we Savior. In the afternoon we will drive to Ein Karem to Day 9 May 31: Tiberias will be met by our local guide who will accompany celebrate Mass at the Visitation Church where Mary This morning we will enjoy a scenic boat ride across us through our pilgrimage and make the scripture proclaimed her famous "Magnificat" and the Church of the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum, home of Our Lord St. John the Baptist where St. John the Baptist was during his ministry. After visiting the synagogue come alive as we follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Drive to our hotel in Jerusalem. Mass at hotel upon born. (B/D) where He taught, proceed to Tabgha, site of the arrival. (D) multiplication of the loaves and fishes, and to the – nearby Church of the Primacy of Peter. Then drive Day 6 May 29: Jerusalem – This morning we will drive to the top of the Mt. of Ol- up to the Mt. of the Beatitudes for Mass at the site of Day 3 May 26: Jerusalem the Sermon on the Mount. (B/L/D) This morning we will drive to Beit Sahur where we ives for a spectacular view of Jerusalem. Visit the Church of Pater Noster where Jesus taught the Lord’s will celebrate Mass at the Shepherd's Field. We will – then proceed a short distance to Bethlehem where prayer to his Disciples and the Chapel of Ascension Day 10 June 1: Tiberias where Jesus ascended into Heaven forty days after his Following breakfast, we will drive to Cana of Galilee, we will visit the Nativity Church which was built by - the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century above resurrection. Then walk along the "Palm Sunday Road" where Our Lord performed the first miracle chang- the traditional Grotto of Jesus' birth. Also tour the to Dominus Flevit where Our Lord wept over ing water into wine at the wedding feast. Here, we'll Manger, the Grotto of St. , the Church of St. Jerusalem. Continue to the Garden of Gethsemane invite couples to renew their wedding vows. We will Catherine and the Franciscan Family Center. (B/D) and the Church of All Nations for Mass on the then proceed to Our Lord’s boyhood town, Nazareth. Rock of Agony. (B/D) Here we will celebrate Mass at the of the

– Annunciation, visit Joseph's Workshop and Mary’s Day 4 May 27: Jerusalem Day 7 - May 30: Jerusalem Well. Then take an excursion to the summit of Mt. This morning we will view the Temple Area of the After an early Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Tabor to see the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus. of Jerusalem featuring the Dome of the we will return to our hotel for breakfast. Following (B/D) Rock, el Aqsa Mosque and the Wailing Wall. Next breakfast, proceed to Bethany to visit the site of the proceed to Mt. Zion and celebrate Mass at the home of Mary, Martha & Lazarus and the Tomb of – Franciscan Chapel adjacent to the Cenacle. Then Day 11 June 2: Tiberias / Tel Aviv Lazarus. We will then continue through the Judean This morning we will depart Tiberias and drive to the visit the Upper Room where Jesus celebrated the Wilderness and pass through Jericho, the oldest known , Dormition Abbey where Mary fell into sparkling port city of Haifa where we will ascend city in the Western world, where we will view from our Mount Carmel, home of the prophets Elijah and eternal sleep, and St. Peter in Gallicantu where coach the ancient “tel”, Elisha's Fountain, the Qarantal Peter denied Jesus three times. In the afternoon we Elisha, for Mass at Stella Maris. Then continue along and the Mount of Temptation. Then proceed to Qumran the Mediterranean coast to ancient Caesarea where will proceed to the Israel Museum in the New City to see the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were of Jerusalem where we will see a scale model of St. Peter preached and St. Paul was imprisoned for discovered. Afterwards we will have an opportunity to two years. Here we will visit the ruins of the Roman Jerusalem as it appeared 2,000 years ago and the take a dip in the salty, mineral laden waters of the Dead Shrine of the Book which houses the Dead Sea Theater, the Crusader's Moat and the Byzantine Scrolls. (B/D) Sea before returning to Jerusalem. (B/D) Churches. Our drive continues to Old Jaffa where we will visit the Church of St. Peter, the home of Simon Day 8 – May 17: Jerusalem / Tiberias the Tanner. We will then enjoy a farewell dinner in- Depart Jerusalem and drive to the traditional Baptismal cluding wine at a local restaurant and then transfer to Site on the Jordan River known as Qasr el Yahud where Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv to catch our late we will have an opportunity to renew our baptismal evening return flight home. (B/D) vows. We will then drive north through the Jordan Valley to Bet Shean where we'll explore the extraordi- Day 12 – June 3: Tel Aviv / U.S.A.

nary excavations of an ancient Roman city. Depart Tel Aviv just after midnight for our flight to Boston. We arrive back in Boston at 5:15 AM.

Included Meals: B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Din- ner

This morn- ing we visit the Church of St. Anne where the Blessed Virgin Mary was born, the Pool of Bethesda where