Pilgrimage to Holy Places of Jerusalem (duration 5 days 4 nights)

 

 

1st day. Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. Departure to Jerusalem. Mersedes class “E” or “B”. Russian-speaking guide. Accommodation in the Old City. 4* hotel, in 100m from the Gateway of the Holy Sepulcher.

Worship of the Holy Sepulcher. Calvary. Stone of the Anointing. The place of finding the Life-giving Cross. The opportunity for receiving the Holy Communion. All — night Liturgy at the Holy Sepulcher. Receiving the Holy Communion.

2nd day. Gethsemane. Tomb of the Blessed Virgin. Garden of Gethsemane. The Church of the Passion of Christ — is a modern church, which built during the Early Byzantine period, in memory of praying of Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane before the arrest and the suffering of Jesus on the cross.Russian monastery of the Holy Equal of the Apostles Mary Magdalene, the worship of relics of Grand princess Elizabeth Feodorovna and the nun Barbara.

House of St. Joachim and Anna. Bethesda. Pool of Bethesda, in the vestibule of which the Christ miraculously healed the paralytic.

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At this spot, according to tradition, there was the dwelling of the righteous Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Holy Virgin Mary.

The Way of the Cross Via Dolorosa (Paintful way) — is the way where the our Savior went to Calvary, the place of His death on the Cross. According to the Orthodox tradition the Way of the Cross starts from Pretorium, where in the time of Jesus Christ there was a prison in which criminals were held before the court of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate.

The threshold of the Judgment Gate (Alexandrian Compound). Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

3rd day. Bethlehem. Church of the Nativity. The Bethlehem field, at which Ruth met Voz. Here the childhood of King David was spent and he was anointed by the prophet Samuel for reign.

Chapel of the Shepherd’s Field — is an underground church in a cave, where on the night of Christmas three angels appeared to the three shepherds, who announced the birth of the our Savior.

Monastery of the Reverend Monk Theodosious.

The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified.

Hebron. The Trinity Monastery in Hebron. Oak of Mamre. Ascension rock (Imbomon) — the place of the Ascension of the Lord. Russian Orthodox Convent of the Ascension. Church of the Pater Noster or «Our Father». Panorama. Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. Trinity Cathedral.

Monastery of St. George of Choziba

Jericho. Holy Monastery of the Prophet Elisha in Jericho. Zacchaeus’ sycamore fig in Jericho. Mount of Temptations. Monastery of the St. Gerasim in Jordan.

Dead Sea (the price does not include payment for visiting the beach).

Moving to Galilee throught the Jordan Valley. Among of all rivers of the earth, the great Jordan was elected. In waters of Jordan was washed away the sins of all mankind. Here our Lord Jesus Christ initiated the saving sacrament of Baptism and from here began his ministry.

Accommodation in a hotel in Tiberias.

4th day. Nazareth. St. Gabriel‘s church and the Mary’s Well or Holy Spring of the Virgin Mary. The Church of the Annunciation over the house where the Holy Family lived.

Cana. The church in honor of the first miracle at the Marriage at Cana.

Mount Tabor — Monastery of the Transfiguration. The Jordan River — ablution in the holy waters.

Dinner. Overnight in Tiberias.

5 th day. Departure from the hotel. Sea of Galilee. On its coasts the Lord chose his disciples from ordinary fishermen and called them. Capernaum — the Church of the Twelve Apostles. The evangelists called Capernaum «His city». The Mount of Beatitude — the place of the proclamation of the Sermon on the Mount.

Tabgha — the place of miraculous Multiplication of the Loaves. The property of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Magdala — the place where the Lord had healed the Holy Apostle Mary Magdalene. Lydda. Temple of St. Great Martyr George. Georgian house in Lydda. Departure to Ben Gurion Airport.