Walking with Jesus in The Holy Land Led by The Very Revd John Dobson - The of - and Bishop John Pritchard - Former Bishop of Oxford -

8th - 17th October, 2020

- The official and preferred Pilgrimage partner for the Diocese of Jerusalem -

Coopersale Hall Farm, Epping, CM16 7PE, England Tel: 01992 576 065 Email: [email protected] web:www.lightline.org.uk We are delighted to be inviting a group to join us on pilgrimage in the Holy Land in October 2020. Like thousands of Christians before us we’ve always found that this pilgrimage has stimulated and nourished our faith in a unique and lasting way, and we hope you might like to join us.

We will be spending our days getting close to the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus, visiting sites that resonate wonderfully with the faith that we have heard and sung about week by week in church, but which springs to life in a whole new way in the holy places themselves.

We’ll also meet some of the heirs of Jesus, the ‘living stones’, in the small but remarkable Christian communities that sustain a Christian witness in what are inevitably very difficult circumstances. Pilgrims with us have often found these encounters some of the most memorable things to have happened to them on the pilgrimage.

We will be travelling with Lightline Pilgrimages, a Christian travel company that works exclusively with Christian agents, hotels, restaurants and tour guides, and which is the ‘official and preferred’ pilgrimage partner for the Anglican diocese of Jerusalem. This ensures that we support our Christian brothers and sisters in a very practical way, and that we gain access to communities that are very close to the ground in Israel/Palestine.

This is always an enormously rich experience, journeying together around the places that mean so much to us in the Land of the Holy One. We always feel that every Christian ought to go there at least once in their lives! Do start saving and join us next October.

Dean John +John

Day 1, Thursday 8th October We gather in Terminal Five of Heathrow Airport for our morning flight to Tel Aviv. On arrival we are met by our guide and coach and transferred to our Pilgrim Guest House on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, arriving in time to unpack and enjoy an evening meal. Overnight stay by the Sea of Galilee.

Day 3, Saturday 10th October Today will be devoted to a leisurely exploration of the area that was the base for Jesus’ ministry by the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. We will begin with Eucharist at the Primacy of St Peter by the shores of the lake. We will then proceed to visit sites associated with the call of the first disciples, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, and the village of Capernaum. We will also sail on a modern- day version of the kind of boat used for

fishing at the time of Jesus and also see Day 2, Friday 9th October the remains of a similar boat which dates We begin our pilgrimage by visiting back to the early First Century. We then Nazareth, the town associated with the visit the excavations of the ancient port- beginning of the gospel message, to see town of Magdala, the home of Mary how the Good News is both remembered Magdalene, before returning to our guest and lived out today. Our first stop will be house. Dinner and overnight stay by the Christ Church and then we proceed to visit Sea of Galilee. the site of the only spring in town, where Jesus’ mother will have drawn water, the Basilica of the Annunciation and the Synagogue Church. We then drive the short distance to Cana to visit the traditional site of Jesus’ first sign before breaking for lunch. In the afternoon we drive across the Jezreel Valley (the biblical scene of Armageddon) to Mount Tabor and ascend to the summit to visit the Church of the Transfiguration. Return to the Sea of Galilee and our guest house in good time to freshen up before dinner. side of the mountain before driving up through the hills of the Judean Wilderness towards Bethlehem. We proceed through the checkpoint in the towering separation wall into Bethlehem for the first of two nights stay in the city in which Christ was born. Dinner and overnight stay by Manger Square in Bethlehem.

Day 4, Sunday 11th October After an early breakfast we will celebrate the Eucharist in Tabgha before leaving Galilee and driving south. Our route will take us through the heart of the West

Bank, noting as we drive some of the ‘facts Day 5, Monday 12th October on the ground’ about the Occupation. We Today will be devoted to discovering more first visit Sebaste (Sebastiya) and the about incarnation and the gift of life in all remains of one of Herod’s palaces and its abundance. We will visit the Shepherds’ temples. Both Orthodox Christians and Fields and the Church of the Nativity, as Moslems believe that John the Baptist’s well as some remarkable institutions run beheaded body was buried here. We then by the Christian community of the ‘little continue to the city of Nablus to visit town’. We hope to visit the St Vincent Jacob’s Well, where the Fourth Gospel tells Creche/Orphanage - the only facility of its us of Jesus’ encounter with the woman kind in the West Bank, offering Christian drawing water. We also hope to visit the love and compassion to over forty Anglican church of St Phillip in the abandoned babies and small children and city. After lunch we will drive down to the amazing International Centre of Qasr al Yehud on the River Jordan, to the Bethlehem created by Revd Dr Mitri site believed to be close to where Jesus Raheb, the Lutheran pastor of Bethlehem was baptised by John, where we will renew which has already helped many thousands our baptism vows. We will stop for a view with education, vocational training and of the Mount of Temptation and Greek various charity projects. Dinner and monastery that clings precariously to the overnight stay in Bethlehem. summit for a breathtaking view of the Old City of Jerusalem with its beautiful medieval walls. We then trace Jesus’ Palm Sunday journey from Bethphage down the mountain, stopping at two churches on the way, before reaching the Garden of Gethsemane, and the profoundly moving Church of the Agony. Finally we continue to our hotel within the old walled city of Jerusalem. Dinner and overnight stay in Jerusalem.

Day 6, Tuesday 13th October This morning we combine the depth of religious history of the Holy Land with a clear indication of the modern day political problems by visiting the city of Hebron with its Tombs of the Patriarchs and seeing how the Old City centre has been divided and impoverished by the Occupation. We will be able to enter both the mosque and the synagogue. We will also visit The Tent of Nations, another amazing organization that promotes non-violence and helps build relationships between people of Day 7, Wednesday 14th October other faiths and nationalities. After a break We begin our day with a brief visit to the for lunch we proceed to the summit of the Western Wall before ascending Mount Mount of Olives and stop briefly on the Zion to visit sites associated with the Last Supper, the Day of Pentecost and the falling asleep of Mary, before finishing our morning at the church of St Peter in Gallicantu and recalling Peter’s betrayal of Jesus. After a break for lunch we will drive over to west Jerusalem to visit the Israel Museum to view the Shrine of the book and a detailed model of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. Return to our hotel in good time to freshen up before dinner. Overnight stay in Jerusalem.

Day 8, Thursday 15th October This morning we leave Jerusalem after an extraordinary Church of the Holy early breakfast and drive down into the Sepulchure, believed to be built over the Dead Sea basin and begin by visiting site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea resurrection. After a break for lunch we scrolls were found. After a short will visit the Holocaust memorial museum presentation we will have an opportunity and park to pay our respects to the to explore the excavation of a nearby millions who lost their lives during the Nazi Essene Monastery where the scrolls occupation of Europe. Return to our hotel probably originated. We then continue in good time to freshen up before our south along the shores of the Dead Sea to farewell dinner. Overnight stay in Mount Masada. We ascend the summit by Jerusalem. cable car to visit Herod’s stepped Palace complex. It was on this flat-topped mountain that the Jewish Partisans committed mass suicide during the Jewish revolt against Rome. After a break for lunch we will have the opportunity to bathe in the unique mineral laden waters of the Dead Sea before returning to Jerusalem, arriving in good time for dinner. We hope to be joined by members of Parents Circle - a unique grassroots organization made up of hundreds of families, half Israeli and half Palestinian, who have all lost immediate family Day 10, Saturday 17th October members to the conflict. After packing our bags we will head west towards the Mediterranean and the Day 9, Friday 16th October airport, stopping at the town of Abu After an early breakfast we drive around Ghosh, one of the possible sites of the Old City and enter via the Lion’s Gate Emmaus, to celebrate a final Eucharist (St Stephen’s Gate) and visit the beautiful together before heading on to the airport Crusader Church of St Anne and the Pools for our journey home, to tell all those of Bethesda, before we begin our walk whom we meet about what has happened along the Way of the Cross through the to us on the road…

narrow streets of the Old City, stopping at the Sisters of Zion convent to celebrate Please note this touring programme may Eucharist and culminating in the be subject to minor local amendments

INCLUSIVE HOLY LAND TOUR COST - £2295 No hidden extras - All Lightline tours are carefully calculated to include all items necessary to complete your tour at the advertised price.

Scheduled flights on British Airways from London Heathrow (Terminal 5) London Heathrow / Tel Aviv BA 165 08:30/14:15 Tel Aviv / London Heathrow BA 164 16:50/20:35 Please note the above flights and time are approximate and subject to change All airport departure & passenger taxes (UK & Israel) Accommodation at the following selected guest houses & hotels: All hotels and guest houses are fully air-conditioned with en-suite facilities Galilee - Pilgerhaus (Benedictine guest house by the Sea of Galilee) Bethlehem - Orient Palace Hotel (by Manger Square in Bethlehem) Jerusalem - Gloria Hotel (within the walls of the Old City, Jaffa Gate)

 Full board basis throughout (breakfast, lunch & dinner) All entrance fees and local government taxes Qualified English speaking guide throughout the tour All touring in modern air-conditioned tourist coaches All gratuities throughout (guides, drivers and hotel & restaurant & staff)

The only items not included in the price are: Single room (limited availability) £490, Travel insurance, and any items of a personal nature (laundry & drinks etc).

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