10-Day Pilgrimage | “In the Footsteps of Jesus”
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- Tour Description
- Itinerary
Tour Description
Nazareth | Sea Of Galilee | Jerusalem | Bethlehem | Emmaus
Experience a personal encounter with Jesus
in the mystical land of His Life, Death,
and Resurrection. While near the Sea of Galilee,
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the Gospels will
come to life as you walk, pray, and celebrate
the Eucharist in the places held most sacred
to Christians. Visit the sites where Jesus
performed His miracles. Carry the cross and
trace His last steps before crucifixion,
as you walk down the Via Dolorosa to the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Once you become
a pilgrim to the Holy Land, you will never
read or hear the Scriptures in the same way
again. Your faith will be renewed.
Your Package Includes:
- Round-trip airfare from New York. (Please inquire about airfares from other cities in the U.S. or Canada)
- Eight (8) nights’ accommodations in tourist class hotels with private facilities.
- Hotel upgrades are available upon request.
- Breakfast and dinner daily.
- Meeting and assistance upon arrival and departure.
- Transportation in private motor-coach including airport transfers.
- Sightseeing as per itinerary with a professional licensed English-speaking guide.
- Porterage at hotels.
- Entrance fees to all sites on itinerary.
- Services of a Passages Tour Manager/Guide from arrival to departure in the Holy Land.
- Coordination of all Liturgies.
- Portfolio of travel documents, including a Passages Flight Packet.
One FREE package for group leader for every 25 participants (based on a minimum of 30 participants)
10-Day
Pilgrimage priced from $2,195 |
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+ departure taxes/fuel surcharge,
November - March Contact us today for your
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10-Day Itinerary
Day 1 | Thursday | Depart for Israel
Day 2 | Friday | Arrive in Holy Land
Day 3 | Saturday | Caesarea Maritima | Mt. Carmel| Nazareth | Cana | Sea of Galilee
Stop at Caesarea by the Sea and visit the theater, newly excavated palace, Hippodrome and the harbor. Continue to Mt. Carmel—where you will visit Stella Maris, the largest monastery of the Carmelite order. Celebrate Mass in Nazareth at the Grotto in the Basilica of the Annunciation. Visit Cana, the site of Jesus' first miracle.
Day 4 | Sunday | Around the Sea of Galilee | Upper Galilee | Jordan River
Enjoy a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee and visit the ancient city of Capernaum, Tabgha and the Mount of the Beatitudes. Celebrate Mass at the site of the Beatitudes or at the Church of the Primacy. Head north to explore the upper regions of Israel to the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking Syria and the Road to Damascus. The day will climax at the River Jordan.
Day 5 | Monday | Mt. Tabor | Jordan Valley | Jericho | Jerusalem
Leave the Sea of Galilee and drive to the foot of Mt. Tabor. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Transfiguration. Continue along the Jordan Valley and experience a remarkable ride along the dramatic canyon beside the original Jericho road. This evening, arrive in Jerusalem.
Day 6 | Tuesday | Bethlehem & Shepherd's Field | Ein Karem
Stop at the tomb of Rachel en route to Shepherd’s Field. In Bethlehem, visit the traditional place of Our Lord’s Nativity. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Nativity or St. Jerome Chapel. Visit the Seminary in Beit Jala and Ein Karem, where Mary met Elizabeth and the birthplace of St. John. See the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum.
Day 7 | Wednesday | City of David | Temple Mount| Mount Zion| Mt. of Olives
Explore the City of David and continue to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. Walk through the alleyways and streets of Jerusalem and go to the newly constructed Jewish Quarter. Visit the Church of St. Peter-in-Gallicantu, the Upper Room, Dormition Abbey, Chapel of the Ascension and Chapel of Dominus Flevit. Follow the Palm Sunday route along Hosanna Road to the Garden of Gethsemane. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Agony.
Day 8 | Thursday | Wilderness of Judea | Qumran and Masada
Visit Bethany, Herod’s Palace in Masada, the Dead Sea and Qumran, where the hidden library of the Essenes—the Dead Sea Scrolls—were found in 1947. Pass by the “Inn of the Good Samaritan.” Celebrate Mass at the Church of Lazarus.
Day 9 | Friday | Via Dolorosa | Emmaus
Pray the Stations of the Cross as you retrace the footsteps of Jesus down the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Celebrate Mass at the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. Visit the Crusader Church of St. Anne, explore the Pool of Bethesda and go to Emmaus, where Jesus first appeared after the Resurrection.
Day 10 | Saturday | Return from the Holy Land
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Day 10 | Saturday | Jerusalem | Baptismal Site| Mount Nebo| Madaba | Petra
Leave Jerusalem for Jordan. Visit Machaerus and continue to the site where the baptism of Jesus took place. Go to Mt. Nebo and stand where Moses stood and gazed across the Jordan Valley. Then, visit Madaba, the City of Mosaics, and see what is possibly the oldest existing map of the Holy Land. Head to Petra, the “Rose-Red City.”
Day 11 | Sunday | Petra | Amman
Walk through the Outer Siq to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, a city sculptured into rose pink rock. See the Street of Façades and the theater—which accommodates 7,000 and is carved into the mountain—and view the Royal Tombs. Later, this afternoon, leave for Amman, the capital of Jordan.
Day 12 | Monday | Return from the Holy Land
