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The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Come and see

A Lent Pilgrimage to the

Israel and

led by

The Venerable Peter Hill

Archdeacon of Nottingham INCLUSIVE TOUR COST - £1849 No hidden costs - All Lightline tours are carefully calculated to include all items necessary to complete your tour at the advertised price. 14 – 24 March 2014

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London – BA 165 22:30 / 05:25 (Airbus A321) Tel Aviv – London BA 164 16:50 / 20:15 (Airbus A321) Please note all the above flights & times are local and are subject to change.

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 Accommodation at following selected guest houses & hotels: All hotels and guest houses are fully air-conditioned with en-suite facilities

Galilee - Pilgerhaus (by the shores of the Sea of Galilee). - St George’s Guest House / Gloria Hotel)

 Half board basis (Dinner, bed & breakfast).

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 Qualified English speaking guide throughout the tour.  All touring in modern air-conditioned tourist coaches.

 The services of our offices and staff in the UK & Jerusalem.

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Day 9 continued Come and see and the below which is the cave venerated as the birthplace of . “Come and see ” are among the first recorded words of Jesus to his earliest The church dates from 339 CE and is the oldest disciples in John’s Gospel. Those three words aptly describe the adventure building having continuous Christian worship and intent of our 2014 Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We not only in the world. In the afternoon we will visit the go to see and experience modern day Israel and Palestine with all its cultural Camp established in 1949 for 3,400 Palestinian from Hebron and political complexity but come and see spiritually with Jesus in the places and 45 villages who fled during the 1948 Arab- where he taught, healed, suffered, died and was resurrected for us and our Israeli war. The camp was established on 0.31 world. We will experience the tranquil settings of lakeside Galilee, the sq. km of land leased by UNRWA from the hustle and bustle of the of Jerusalem and the demand and challenge Jordanian government. Today there are 13,000 refugees, 35% unemployment and 38% of Palestine, including and Jericho. meeting with members of the local in the 0-14 age range. There are two schools, The literal meaning of the word “see” in Jesus’ invitation is not a casual a food distribution centre, a health centre, congregation to determine how best to rehabilitation centre and women’s programme further our relationship with the Diocese of glance but a deep intentional look. A pilgrimage to the Holy Land gives such centre. Later in the afternoon we to Beit Jerusalem. Farwell dinner and our fnal nights an opportunity to look deeply into Christ, to renew and refresh our faith as stay in Jerusalem. Sahur, a largely Christian area of Bethlehem,

we see, hear, touch, taste and smell the places where Jesus was and to the Shepherds Fields identified since remains by his Holy Spirit. We go with him to see what he has ahead in our ancient times with the shepherds who saw the own spiritual journeys and in doing so we meet those on journeys of faith in Star of the Nativity. We will celebrate the Eucharist in one of caves. Return to Jerusalem the land that he loved, both Christian, Jew and Muslim. for dinner and overnight stay.

As a special part of this pilgrimage we hope to spend extended time with our Christian brothers and sisters in the Cathedral Church of St George’s in Jerusalem, with which we have a Diocesan link.

So do come and see with us, but above all, with Jesus himself.

Peter Hill, Archdeacon of Nottingham Day 11 Monday 24 March Abu Ghosh, Kireath Jeream, Journey home TRAVELLING ON YOUR OWN En route to Ben Gurion airport we call at the A large proportion of our passengers travel alone and object to expensive "single room" village of Abu Ghosh which the Crusaders supplements. Please indicate this on your booking form (share twin-bedded room) and we will located as Emmaus, the scene of another of

Jesus’ resurrection appearances. This is one of accommodate you with a person of the same sex also travelling alone and would also like to

share a room. If we are unable to accommodate you in a shared twin, we will place you in single Day 10 Sunday 23 March the few places in Israel where Jews and room at only half the cost (50%) of the usual single supplement. If you require Single Stations of the Cross, live together peacefully. In the next village is accommodation (if available) you should request this when booking and the appropriate St. George’s Cathedral the stunning Church of Notre Dame de l’Arche supplement will apply. This morning before breakfast we walk the de l’Alliance (Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant), built in 1924 and said to occupy PASSPORTS, VISAS & HEALTH Stations of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, the A full valid 10 year passport is necessary for all our tours. Check NOW that it is valid for the traditional way through the Suk followed by the site of the house of Abinadab where the duration of your tour and validity runs for a further 6 months after your return to the UK . British pilgrims over the centuries to Calvary within Ark of the Covenant is said to have rested for passport holders will be issued a Visa free of charge on arrival in the Holy Land. Holders of other the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . This twenty years until King David took it to passports please contact Lightline Pilgrimages on 0845 610 6447 for advice. No inoculations are ancient church also covers the place of the Jerusalem. It is built on the site of the fifth required, however we advise you to consult your doctor regarding your own personal resurrection of our Lord, marked by an edicle, century Byzantine church and is recognisable requirements. which we hope to enter. The authenticity of by the roof-top statue of Mary carrying the infant Jesus in her arms and standing on the TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THIS TOUR the site is supported by the tradition of the Jerusalem community which held liturgical Ark of the Covenant. We continue to the Please read the booking conditions and complete the enclosed booking form and send it, airport for our late afternoon flight to with a deposit of £200 and insurance premium (if required) per person to: celebrations at the site until 66 AD. After

Heathrow.

breakfast we walk up the Road to St. George’s Cathedral for the morning Eucharist Please note this complex touring programme is RESERVATIONS:  01992 576 065 and after lunch we will spend some time subject to minor local amendments Day 7 continued Our Itinerary tradition the crypt enshrines the original home of the Virgin Mary and her parents Joachim and Day 1 Friday 14 March over twenty superimposed cities. We will Anne. Next to it are the ruins of the Pool of Travel to the Holy Land have the opportunity to walk through the Bethesda , where Jesus healed the man crippled Our pilgrimage begins this afternoon with a elaborate shaft and tunnel system installed to for 38 years. From here we go on to the Eucharist in Southwell Minster before bring water into the city without those Convent of the Sisters of Sion built on the travelling to London Heathrow for an besieging it realising. In the early afternoon foundations of the Antonia Fortress, named overnight scheduled flight to Ben Gurion we arrive at our hotel beside the Sea of Galilee after Mark Anthony and built by Herod the Airport, Tel Aviv (Israel). to relax for the rest of the day. Dinner and Great. Within the convent is the pavement at overnight stay by Galilee. ground level at the time of Jesus upon which are scratched games played by the Roman soldiers. The remainder of the afternoon will be available for exploring the Suk , the colourful streets and markets of the Old City or visiting the Garden Tomb , which almost certainly is not the tomb of Christ, but provides a beautiful and quiet space to reflect and meditate. Dinner and overnight stay in Jerusalem.

Day 2 Saturday 15 March Maritima, Megiddo, Sea of Galilee four ancient tombs, traditionally the tombs of We arrive at day-break to be met by our Lightline representative and guide and taken Absolom, Jehoshaphat, St. James and St. ZachariasFrom the Kidron Valley we ascend for an Arab breakfast in Jaffa with its Bronze on to Mount Zion , to the Church of St. Peter Age harbour, closed since 1965. Jaffa was the Day 3 Sunday 16 March in Gallicantu where tradition has it that Peter port of entry for the cedars of for Capernaum, Bethsaida, Caesarea Philippi denied Christ. By the side of the church are both Solomon’s Temple and the Second Capernaum was the centre of Jesus’ ministry the recently excavated steps and path which Temple of Jerusalem. There are commanding in the Galilee and where he taught in the local is the likely route the soldiers would have led views over the modern city of Tel Aviv. An synagogue. It was the trading base of Peter, Andrew, James and John as well as Matthew, Jesus into the City on the night he was account in Acts of St. Peter’s resurrection of betrayed. Here we will celebrate the the widow Tabitha takes place in Jaffa and the the tax collector. Here we will celebrate the Eucharist beside the Sea of Galilee before Day 8 Friday 21 March Eucharist. Return to our hotel. Dinner and Russian Orthodox Church of St. Peter and St. Tabitha commemorates this act. We drive up exploring the C4 CE synagogue built on the Bethany, Mount of , Gethsemane, overnight stay in Jerusalem. Kidron Valley, Mount Zion the Mediterranean coast to Caesarea foundations of the synagogue in which Jesus This morning we visit Bethany only a mile or so Maritima , the capital of Palestine for almost taught. Adjacent is Simon Peter’s house which above the Mount of Olives but now cut off by 600 years. The city, built by Jesus made his second home. Bethsaida lies the Separation Wall. This is the village where between 22 and 9 BCE and dedicated to some 2 km to the north of the Sea of Galilee Jesus’ friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus lived Caesar Augustus as a seaport, comprises of a today and the New Testament gives it as the and the is located. We return great artificial harbour enclosed by two birthplace of Peter, Andrew and Philip. Like to the most spectacular panorama of Jerusalem massive stone breakwaters, a Herodian Capernaum and Chorozain, Bethsaida is from the esplanade above the Mount of Olives , aqueduct and a theatre seating 4,000 people condemned by Jesus for its lack of faith. Here some 100m above the city. Descending Olivet bearing the name Pontius Pilate on an the New Testament records Jesus as restoring on foot we visit the Church of Pater Noster , the inscribed plaque. Both Paul and Peter visited the sight of the blind man. The site is tear shaped Church of Dominus Flevit , Caesarea and Philip made his home here. undeveloped after 45 years of excavations and designated as the place where Jesus wept over Megiddo , situated at the head of the most few artefacts having been found. From Jerusalem as we continue singing down the important pass through the Carmel range of Bethsaida we drive up on to the Golan Heights Mount of Olives to the Church of All Nations is mountains, was an Israelite stronghold and is through Druze villages, where we stop at a located on the traditional site of the garden in Day 9 Saturday 22 March the “royal box in one of the great theatres of Druze owned restaurant for lunch, and on to which Jesus collapsed and prayed before his Bethlehem history.” Numerous armies have fought in the Caesarea Philippi . Originally a place sacred to arrest. The Kidron Valley, separating the Nothing prepares us for our entry into Jezreel Valley and Armageddon (Mountain of the god Pan and one source of the River Mount of Olives from the City of Jerusalem, Bethlehem. The Separation Wall is all around Megiddo) has become the symbol for the , it is where in 20 BCE Herod the Great was crossed by Jesus many times and contains us as we make our way to Square battle to end all wars. The complex site has dedicated a temple of white marble to the

Day 3 continued set a charcoal fire to cook fish for breakfast for the short distance to dating mainly on the border between desert and the lush honour of Caesar Augustus. On Herod’s death the disciples on his third appearance after the from the Roman and Byzantine periods. green oasis. Herod the Great first leased the Philip the Tetrarch expanded it into the capital resurrection. We return to the Nof Ginosor Herod Antipas rebuilt the city after the oasis from Cleopatra who had been given it of his territory. Somewhere in the vicinity of kibbutz to view a first century CE fishing boat Jewish revolt was quelled and it is entirely by Mark Anthony. He laid out new aqueducts the city Jesus asked the disciples “Who do you (the Jesus boat) measuring 8.27 m long and 2.3 possible that Joseph (and Jesus) worked on to irrigate the area beneath the cliffs. say that I am?” Return to our hotel. Dinner and m wide. It was discovered during a drought in the re-building travelling daily from Nazareth. Churches commemorating the temptations of overnight stay by the Sea of Galilee. 1986 and has been carefully preserved. We Return to our hotel. Dinner and overnight by Jesus were erected on Jebel Quruntul, the will cross the Sea of Galilee in a more modern the Sea of Galilee. Mount of Temptations , where we will gather day Jesus boat. Return to our hotel. Dinner and to remember Jesus’ testing in the wilderness. overnight stay by the Sea of Galilee. After lunch in Jericho we visit the newly opened baptism site on the river Jordan near where Jesus himself was probably baptised. We then move a few miles south to Qumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were found and see the excavated monastery of the Essene community. There will be an opportunity to bathe and float in the mineral waters of the Dead Sea before driving up to Jerusalem and checking in to our hotel. Dinner and overnight stay in Jerusalem.

Day 4 Monday 17 March

Jesus’ lakeside ministry Day 6 Wednesday 19 March We spend today around and on the Sea of Jacob’s Well, Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea Galilee. At Chorozain we see the partially This morning we leave Galilee to drive restored black basalt synagogue. We visit the through the mountainous region of Samaria, beautiful octagonal church and garden of the the northern West Bank, to Jacob’s Well Mount of Beatitudes which conveys an located on the eastern edge of Nablus. The impression of immense tranquillity. Its shady well, 22.5 m deep, is venerated as the spot gallery is a great place from which to view the where Jesus encountered the Samaritan Sea of Galilee, scanning virtually all the key woman. The C4 church over the site has Day 5 Tuesday 18 March locations of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. We walk been re-built several times and the present Nazareth, Sepphoris down the Mount of Beatitudes through the remains unfinished. In Nazareth we visit first the modern grove to the Heptapegon , ‘the place of The Samaritans are a tiny dissident Jewish Day 7 Thursday 20 March of the Annunciation , two interconnected seven springs’, to the Church of the sect, now only numbering about 400, They Jewish Quarter, Western Wall, churches one above the other. The lower level Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes with its recognise only the five books of Moses as houses the Grotto of the Annunciation celebrated of two fish flanking a basket inspired scripture. Their origin goes back to This morning we walk through the Jewish believed by many Christians to be the remains of loaves. A little further on is the Church of the split between Israel and Judah. Each year Quarter of the old city passing remains from of the childhood home of Mary. The church the Primacy of Peter , a modern Franciscan at Pentecost they sacrifice lambs on their the Herodian period and the Roman Cardo displays donated by countries Chapel built on the walls of a late C4 CE holy mountain, Gerizim. From there we Maximus, the main north-south artery of throughout the world. Bronze depict building with a limestone ‘table’ (Mensa drive across to the fertile to Byzantium Jerusalem before arriving at the scenes from the life of Jesus and other biblical Christi) venerated as the rock on which Jesus Jericho , the lowest (258 m below sea level) Western (Wailing) Wall. This is the holiest stories. From here we walk through the and oldest city on earth, strategically located place for the Jewish faith where Jews pray bustling streets to the Greek Orthodox Church and lament the destruction of the Temple of Mary’s Well. Tradition holds that the built by Herod the Great in 20 BCE. From the Annunciation took place as Mary was drawing Western Wall Plaza we make our way water from a well or spring. The Greek through through the security gates on to Orthodox Church was erected on an Temple Mount itself. Haram-esh-Sharif (The alternative site over a spring which still runs Noble ) is the third most important today. The Melkite Greek Islamic site in the world and was the site of bears the sign ‘the synagogue’ . According to the Jewish Temple in Jesus’ day. From Christian tradition the church is built over the Temple Mount we make our way to the ruins of an ancient Nazareth synagogue where loveliest church in Jerusalem, the Crusader Jesus studied, prayed and delivered his Church of St. Anne. According to Byzantine Sabbath Day sermon. From Nazareth we drive