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Walk to Jerusalem Spring 2021 Week 8 March 22-28 We Had Another Great Week This Week. We Had36 Participants and Walked 1280Miles Walk to Jerusalem Spring 2021 Week 8 March 22-28 We had another great week this week. We had36 participants and walked 1280miles. Over the past 8 weeks we have had 60 participants and we walked a grand total of 8854 miles! The map below shows our progress through the end of week seven (purple line). We reached Jerusalem last week but didn’t have the time to do any exploration. Jerusalem has more sacred places in one place than anywhere else in the world and the city’s holy sites are the biggest attractions in Israel. Many of the places are important to several major religions. Jews, every denomination of Christians, Samaritans, Muslims – all of them hold Jerusalem dear. Did you know that Muslims consider Jesus to be a great prophet? This week, I have arranged the sightseeing by days and where possible linked the days’ activities to the days of Holy Week. For example, we will follow Jesus’ footsteps on Friday by following the Via Dolorosa, the week before Good Friday. The Via Dolorosa is the road in the old city of Jerusalem where Jesus was lead in agony, carrying the crucifixion cross. The exception I made was for Palm Sunday when we participated in the procession of palms re-enactment. On the earlier days of the week, we will visit other important sights. Monday On our sightseeing pilgrimage in Jerusalem, we stopped first at the Mount of Olives, which is south of Jerusalem and overlooks the old city. Separated from the Eastern Hill (the Temple Mount and the City of David) by the Kidron Valley and Kidron Brook, the Mt. of Olives has always been an important feature in Jerusalem’s landscape. From the 3rd millennium B.C. until the present, this 2900-foot hill has served as one of the main burial grounds for the city. The two-mile long ridge has three summits each of which has a tower built on it. There was a nice shady place for us to rest, picnic and get an overview of Jerusalem. Jesus made many visits to the Mount of Olives (Luke 21:37). In fact, it was typical for Him to go there when in the vicinity of Jerusalem (Luke 22:39). Every time Jesus visited Lazarus and Mary and Martha, He was on the Mount of Olives, for their village of Bethany was situated on the eastern slope. The road from Bethany to Jerusalem lay over Mt. Olive. The Bible records Jesus’ visiting the Mount of Olives three times in the last week of His earthly life, and each time something of significance happened. The first visit was recorded in Matthew 24:1—25:46., Mark 13:1–37 and Luke 21:5–36. Here Jesus responds to the disciples’ question “When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?". Mount of Olives in current times Jesus’ teaching primarily concerned the future tribulation period and the second coming of Christ at the end of the tribulation. His discourse included parables about those who wait for the Master’s coming—the wise and faithful servant (Matthew 24:45–51), the five wise virgins (Matthew 25:1–13), and the good servant who uses his resources wisely (Matthew 25:14–30). Jesus spent the first several days after Palm Sunday in the temple teaching people and calling out those who were sinful. Some of the Jewish leaders of the priests and scribes were unhappy with Jesus’ teachings and sought a way to get rid of Jesus (Luke 22:2–6). We will discuss the other two times Jesus visited the Mount of Olives on the appropriate day, with the second visit being discussed on Palm Sunday. Next, we visited The Church of the Sepluchre of Saint Mary, left, also called Tomb of the Virgin Mary, a Christian tomb in the Kidron Valley – at the foot of Mount of Olives– believed by Eastern Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus. At right is a picture of the inside of the tomb. Roman Catholic teaching holds that Mary was "assumed" into heaven in bodily form, the Assumption; the question of whether or not Mary actually underwent physical death remains open in the Catholic view. On 25 June 1997 Pope John Paul II said that Mary experienced natural death prior to her assumption into Heaven. A narrative known as the Euthymiaca Historia (written probably by Cyril of Scythopolis in the 5th century) relates how the Emperor Marcian and his wife, Pulcheria, requested the relics of the Virgin Mary from Juvenal, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, while he was attending the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. According to the account, Juvenal replied that, on the third day after her burial, Mary's tomb was discovered to be empty, only her shroud being preserved in the church of Gethsemane. In 452 the shroud was sent to Constantinople, where it was kept in the Church of Our Lady of Blachernae. Burial chamber is pictured left. Also in the area is the Church of Mary Magdalene, a Russian Orthodox church located on the Mount of Olives, directly across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount and near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem. The church was built in 1888 by Tsar Alexander III and his brothers to honor their mother, Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. The church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, the companion of Jesus. According to the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, Mary Magdalene was the first to see Christ after his resurrection (Mark 16:9). She is usually considered a crucial and important disciple of Jesus, and seemingly his primary female associate, along with Mary of Bethany, whom some believe to have been the same woman. The church is part of the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, a sisterhood established in 1936 by an English convert and working under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Tuesday Mary meets Elizabeth, at the Church of the Visitation, Left and Church of the Visitation, center On Tuesday we headed to Ein Karem, southwest of Jerusalem, which is famous for the Church of the Visitation, commemorating St. Mary's visit to St. Elizabeth to see her cousin after being told by the Holy Spirit that Elizabeth was pregnant and the Church of St. John the Baptist, commemorating St. John's birth: “In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth” (Lk. 1:39-40). Church of St. John the Baptist, left We also went to visit the Western Wall of Jerusalem also known as the Wailing Wall. In the picture at left, the Western Wall is directly in front of you as you look at the picture. The Wailing Wall or Western Wall is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the "Western Wall". The wall was originally erected as part of the expansion of the Second Jewish Temple begun by Herod the Great, which resulted in the encasement of the natural, steep hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, in a huge rectangular structure topped by a flat platform, thus creating more space for the Temple itself, its auxiliary buildings, and crowds of worshipers and visitors. The Western Wall's holiness in Judaism is a result of its proximity to the Temple Mount. Because of the Temple Mount entry restrictions, the Wall is the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, though the Foundation Stone, the most sacred site in the Jewish faith, lies behind it. Of the four retaining walls, the western one is considered closest to the former Holy of Holies, which makes it the most sacred site recognized by Judaism outside the previous Temple Mount platform. The Western Wall has also been called the "Wailing Wall", referring to the practice of Jews weeping at the site over the destruction of the Temples. During the period of Christian Roman rule over Jerusalem (ca. 324–638), Jews were completely barred from Jerusalem except to attend Tisha B'Av, the day of national mourning for the Temples, and on this day the Jews would weep at their holy places. The term "Wailing Wall" was thus almost exclusively used by Christians, and was revived in the period of non-Jewish control between the establishment of British Rule in 1920 and the Six-Day War in 1967. The term "Wailing Wall" is not used by religious Jews, and increasingly not by many others who consider it derogatory. Wednesday Aerial view of the Temple Mount, left On Wednesday we returned to the same area to explore further. For Christians, the Temple Mount is significant because the Jewish temple located here was where Jesus prayed daily & later preached with his disciples. The Temple Mount is a large, ancient, elevated platform in the Old City of Jerusalem with a multifaceted (and sometimes contentious) religious significance. Historically, it took its shape from the construction of the First and Second Jewish Temples. At its center today is the Dome of the Rock, an ornate Islamic shrine was built in 691. The Dome of the Rock marks the spot of Abraham’s offering of Ishmael and the Prophet Mohammed heavenward ascent. It also covers the Foundation Stone, itself considered the holiest site in Judaism. The Dome of the Rock is adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, below left, also part of the Temple Mount.
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