STEVE & JANET RAY Producers of the Footprints of God documentaries; Pilgrimage Experts, International author and speaker

Invite you on a

HISTORICAL JOURNEY THROUGH GERMANY

500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROTESTANT

A Catholic Tour to Study, Understand, & Critique Martin & the Protestant Reformation

September 6-15, 2017

Optional 4-Night Extension to Rome: September 15-19, 2017

Ken Hensley Steve and Janet Ray Fr. Steve Thomlison Convert from and Convert from Luther expert and lecturer HISTORICAL JOURNEY THROUGH GERMANY Planned Tentative Itinerary* You will be accompanied every day by Steve & Janet Ray along with their excellent Roman Catholic local guide.

Day 1 y Depart USA Day 7 | Eisenach | | Erfurt Depart USA on overnight flights to Berlin. After breakfast, depart for Eisenach for Mass at St. Elizabeth Day 2 y Arrive in Berlin Catholic Church. Enjoy a walking Arrive in Berlin and meet Steve and Janet Ray, other speakers, and tour seeing the Bach House and your European tour escort, who will be with you for the duration of Luther’s House, one of the oldest your tour. Transfer to your hotel and check in. Welcome Dinner at houses in the city. Following lunch the hotel with the touring team and speakers. Overnight in Berlin (D) on your own, continue the tour Day 3 y Berlin with a visit to Wartburg Castle, This morning, celebrate Mass at where Luther spent ten months St. Hedwig’s Cathedral followed after the famous in 1521 where his fate was decided. by a guided tour of Berlin’s Here Luther translated his New Testament into his . highlights: the Berlin Wall, Return to Erfurt for dinner, talks and overnight. (B|D) Reichstag, Checkpoint Charlie, Day 8 y Erfurt | Marburg | Mainz | Boppard/Rudesheim Potsdamer Platz, and the famous Depart for Marburg. Take a tour of Marburg, including the Marburg Brandenburg Gate. After lunch Castle where held their divisive council, failing on your own, visit the Pergamon to agree and parting ways unreconciled. See the oak table where Museum to see some of the Luther pounded his fist. Talks on Protestantism and the root causes world’s most famous treasures, including the Ishtaar Gates of Babylon, of the divisions in Christianity. Celebrate Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul the Pergamon Altar of Zeus (Rev 2:13), Market Gate of Miletus, Greek Catholic Church. After lunch on your own, continue on to Mainz, Sculpture Room, and more. Tonight, enjoy the sights of Berlin on a home of the archbishop who had deputized Fr. Johannes Tetzel to scenic dinner cruise on the river. Overnight in Berlin. (B|D) preach and sell indulgences. Check into your hotel for dinner and Day 4 y Berlin | Potsdam | | Leipzig overnight in Boppard or Rudesheim. Evening talks on Indulgences, Depart for a tour of Potsdam where Churchill, Stalin, and Truman Salvation, and the confusion in the 15th century. (B|D) met in 1945 for Potsdam Conference. See the Sanssouci Palace, the summer residence of Frederick the Great. After lunch on your own, Day 9 | Worms | Mainz | Boppard/Rudesheim arrive in Wittenburg, the heart of “Lutherland.” Celebrate Mass Drive to the city of Worms where at Undefiled Conception Catholic Church in Wittenburg. Known the schism in the Church came to as the Cradle of the Reformation, Wittenburg is where Luther first a head in 1521, one of the most published his German translation of the New Testament. Strolling dramatic scenes in European through the old town, we will visit Castle Church, where Luther nailed history. Here at the Diet of his “95 Theses” on the door and see the graves of Worms, Luther learned of his and his theologian . Visit Luther House where he fate. See the lived with his wife, the former nun , and their six that reminds us of the schism children. Depart for Leipzig and, upon arrival, check in to your hotel that split the Church and Luther’s for dinner, talks, and overnight. (B|D) appearance before the court. Visit and celebrate Mass at St. Peter’s Day 5 y Leipzig Cathedral, followed by lunch on your own. Depart back to Boppard Touring today in Leipzig. Celebrate or Rudesheim for dinner at the hotel, talks and overnight. (B|D) Mass at Holy Trinity. After Mass, visit Day 10 | Depart for USA the famous St. Nicholas Church and St. Check out of the hotel and transfer to the Frankfurt airport for return Thomas Church, were Johann Sebastian flights to the USA. Bach spent his most creative years and directed the still-famous boys’ choir. Optional Post-trip y Extension for 4 Nights to Rome Short talk on J.S. Bach. Enjoy the old The three days of touring in Rome will emphasize Rome's response to town of Leipzig, where Luther and Protestantism and the Church' Counter-Reformation. We will see the John Eck debated such topics as papal glories of Rome and the continued orthodoxy and unity of the one, primacy, indulgences, and ecclesiastical authority. Afternoon seminar holy, Catholic and apostolic Church. on Luther and the Reformation, including debates between Luther Day 14 | Extension Trip Ends | Return to USA and Eck. Dinner at a local restaurant and overnight in Leipzig. (B|D) Day 6 y Leipzig | | Mansfeld | Erfurt Depart for Eisleben. Celebrate Mass at St. Gerturd’s. Visit Eisleben, B=Breakfast, D=Dinner where Luther was born in 1483, baptized, preached his last sermon, and died. Visit the museum in the house of Luther’s birth and death. *Exact schedule of each day and churches for Mass are tentative and Biographical summary of Luther’s life along the way. Continue to subject to confirmation. Mansfield where Luther spent his childhood. After lunch on your own, depart for Erfurt and check into your hotel for dinner and overnight in Erfurt. Talks and discussions during the bus rides. (CB|D)