Fr. Christian Mathis | November 17, 2010
Today we began our day with a visit to the city of Nazareth where we were able to celebrate the liturgy at the place where Mary accepted God’s invitation through the angel Gabriel to become the mother of God. In her simple reply to God, she opened the door for the Incarnation of Christ, and [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 16, 2010
As you may have guessed, internet access has been more difficult to come by in the last few days. Our group just returned from a side trip to the ancient city of Petra, which is in the modern country of Jordan. Petra is the land where Esau and his descendants settled, but you may remember [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 13, 2010
Today as we were visiting the Dead Sea I was reminded of something that was shared with me on my first pilgrimage to the Holy Land. One of the people we met described the land where the Biblical events took place as the fifth gospel. We have the four written gospels, and we also have [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 13, 2010
This Old City barber seemed to speak no English other than the word, Welcome! Yet I had no worries, because unlike Samson, I have no superhuman powers to lose.
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 12, 2010
This morning we were awakened at 3:45 in the morning to begin our walk of the Via Dolorosa. The Via Dolorosa is a path through Jerusalem which marks the journey of Jesus as he carried his cross. Since pilgrims began journeying to Jerusalem it has been a tradition to walk this Way of the Cross [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 11, 2010
Today was another full day of pilgrimage that took us to holy sites of three major religions. We began our day with a visit to the Western Wall, where we were met with many young men celebrating bar mitzvahs with their families. I spent a few minutes at the wall praying for several people who [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | November 10, 2010
Today the bulk of our time as pilgrims was spent in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas. We began the morning at a church in a place called the Shepherd’s Field where we celebrated mass. Fr. Michael Woods in his homily noted that he had always imagined the fields surrounding Bethlehem as looking like the lush, [...]
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