PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND

Flew to Tel Aviv. Our representative will meet you at the exit from the clean area, and escort you to a comfortable car (minibus) that will take you to your hotel in Jerusalem. Dinner. Rest and Rest.

Breakfast at the hotel. Walk through the old city (the route «Seven Secrets of Jerusalem», from the time of the First Temple to our time), through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Cardo Street - a restored Jerusalem Street of the Roman period. Underground Jerusalem - Hizkiyahu Tunnel (entrance to the tunnel from the Wailing Wall). The Hasmoneev Tunnel is part of an underground complex of ancient canals supplying water to the Temple under the Western part of the Temple Mount. Here comes to life the siege and capture by David of the ancient city of the Jebusites, as described in the Bible, in the Second Book of Samuel (Second Kingdoms). The underground excursion ends at the Gihon Key, the most important water source of Jerusalem for more than a thousand years - here, according to the description in the Book of Kings, Solomon was anointed to the kingdom. «Holy of Holies» - the room located in the tunnel opposite the place where there was Dvir in the Temple - where the Divine presence lived. The Lion’s Gate of the Old City. The Gates of Mercy - the Golden Gate. Bethesda - «Ovchaya font», in one of pretends of which the Savior healed the relaxed. «There is a bath at the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, called in Jewish Bethesda» (John 5:2) The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (in this place, according to legend, was the dwelling of St. Joachim and Anna - parents of the Blessed Virgin. Near to Pretoria - there in the time of Jesus Christ was a dungeon in which the prisoners were kept before the court of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, begins Via Dolorosa (the Cross Road). They dressed him in his clothes and led him to the crucifixion» (Matthew 27:31) Alexander Compound (private rooms of the Romanov family in Jerusalem). Doomsday. «Eye of the Needle». An ancient staircase leading to the first Byzantine church above Golgotha. The Church of the Resurrection - the Temple (the Holy Sepulcher). Holy Calvary. The Stone of the Anointing. Holy Kuvukliya - the place of the Holy Sepulcher. The Chapel of the Angel. Rotunda of the Holy Sepulcher. Kafolikon - Greek Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. Chapel of the Head of Adamova. Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Side chapel of St. John. The Chapel of the Quest of the Cross of the Lord. The Cave of Discovery. The Chapel of St. Longinus the Centurion. The Chapel of the Assumption of the Crown of Ternoy. Chapel of the Prison of the Lord. Chapel of the Weeping Mother of God. Other shrines of the Temple. Moving to Bethlehem. The road will pass by the Ancient Emouse (Latrun) - the place of meeting of Jesus with disciples Luke and Cleopa after His Resurrection. Night in Bethlehem.

At 06.00 the participation of the Divine Liturgy in the Basilica of the Nativity. .
Return to the hotel. Breakfast at the hotel.
09.00 am. Bethlehem. The Basilica of the Nativity. The Holy Nativity - the place of the Nativity of the Divine Child - Christ and the Sacred Nursery. Miraculous icon of the Mother of God «Bethlehem».
09.00 am. Bethlehem. The Basilica of the Nativity. The Holy Nativity - the place of the Nativity of the Divine Child - Christ and the Sacred Nursery.

The Cave of Murdered Babies. The Cave of St. Blessed Hieronymus, the place of his burial. «Dairy Cave» - the place of stopping of the Sacred Family on the way to Egypt. Beit Sahur. Greek cave Temple «Field of shepherds», arranged on a place where on the night of Nativity three shepherds appeared Angels, who heralded the birth of the Savior to the world.
The Lavra of the Holy Savva - the ancestor of the Palestinian Monasticism - is the only abode in the Desert of Holy City, which preserves the ancient canonical charter bequeathed by the founder. . 


The monastery of the Venerable Theodosius the Great, arranged on the site of the cave in which the magi stayed after the worship of the Divine Child-Christ.


Hebron  -  is the oldest city of the forefathers of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the capital of the kingdom of David. Oak of Mamri. Monastery of the Holy Trinity. Section of the Russian Spiritual Mission.Return to the hotel in Bethlehem. . 
Dinner. Rest and Rest. .

At 17:00 the Vigil in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem. Return to the hotel in Bethlehem. Preparation for night service. Short rest.

At 23:30 - Transfer to Jerusalem to the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem (15 minutes’ drive).).
At 00:00 - Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. .

Return to the hotel in Jerusalem around 4 am.
Dinner. Rest and Rest.

Brunch.
Bethany is the tomb of St. Right. Lazarus the Quaternary. Passing by the "Home of the Good Samaritan" - a place mentioned in the New Testament, in one of the parables told by Jesus. A panorama of the Monastery of the Venerable George Hozeit and the cave temple of Elijah the Prophet. The Greek Monastery of the Venerable Hariton the Confessor, located on the territory of the State National Reserve (Ein Prat).
Wadi Celt Gorge.
Ancient Farrah. The very first monastic monastery on the Holy Land, founded in 285 by R.H. (possible swimming in the mountain river).

Jericho is the most ancient city in the world. The tree of Zaccheus, on which sat the collector of taxes in the hope of seeing the Savior. Greek Monastery of the Prophet Elisha and Holy Spring. Quarantile - the Sorocadene Temptation Mountain and the Sorocader Monastery - here the Lord fasted forty days and was tempted. (Climb the funicular or climb on foot at will). The Monastery of the Venerable Gerasim of Jordan in the Jordan Valley.

The place of the Baptism on the Jordan River is the place of the Baptism of Jesus (not Yardenit). «Then Jesus comes from Galilee to Jordan to John to be baptized from him» (Matthew 3:13) The biblical name of the place is Beit Maavar. Here three and a half thousand years ago the people of Israel, led by Joshua Nun, crossed the Jordan River and entered the Promised Land after the Forty Years' Wandering in the Desert.

Perhaps a visit to Qumran, on the Dead Sea, where the famous Dead Sea scrolls were found. In the days of Jesus, the Essenes, one of the Jewish religious communities, lived here, and in one of the surviving scrolls, the beheaded John, probably John the Baptist, is mentioned.
" "All try, well hold on" (1 Fess. 5:21), says the Holy Apostle Paul. " (1 Fess. 5:21), says the Holy Apostle Paul.
The study of Cumran manuscripts is the study of both the history of the Old Testament Church, during the period of the late Second Temple, and the general historical background of evangelical events. Both are necessary for a better understanding of the preaching of Jesus Christ and the gospel teaching.
Return to the hotel. Dinner. Rest.

Early breakfast at the hotel.
Ein Karem. City of Juden. Gorno Russian Convent in Jerusalem. Panorama of the Old City with Mount of Olives.
«Podochka» - the place of the Ascension of the Lord. Spaso-Voznesensky Orthodox Monastery. The grave of the head of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin). Chapel of the First and Second Finding of the Honest Head of John the Baptist. Temple of St. Righteous Philaret the Gracious (Refectory).
""Dominus Flavit" is the place from which Jesus mourned Jerusalem, anticipating the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and the coming disasters. Jesus said to them, Do you see all this? Truly I say to you, there will be no stone left here; everything will be destroyed» (Matthew 24:2)
The site of the Russian Spiritual Mission, the Temple of Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane, where St. Relics of Grand Duchess Elisabeta Feodorovna and her Kinokin Barbara.
The steps on which Jesus Christ walked when entering Jerusalem. The stone on which the Mother of God dropped her belt to assure the Apostle Thomas. The Tomb of the Mother of God; the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin «Jerusalem». The Gethsemane Grotto-Cave of Disciples.
On the Mount of Olives (Mount of Olives), Christ liked to gather with his disciples, so that almost the entire western slope of the Mount of Olives was occupied with Christian relics. The Temple of the Passion of Christ (Church of All Nations) in the Garden of Gethsemane. The Stone of Prayer for the Cup (here Christ prayed to God the Father for deliverance from suffering; in this place the betrayal of Judas occurred - the place of Prayer for the Cup and the arrest of Christ. They came to a village called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, sit here while I pray». (Mark 14:32) The ancient olives standing in the monastery garden are said to be witnesses of these events.
The city of David is the oldest part of Jerusalem, the place where it all began... . Mount Zion. The tomb of King David. «And David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.» (3rd Kn. Kings, 2:10)
Chamber of the Last Supper. Temple of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin. A panorama of the Orthodox monastery of St.Onufria, belonging to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, located in the valley of the sons of Ennomov (Gaius ben Ennomili Guéhen). The panorama of the Baptist of Siloam is the place of the anointing of the kingdom of the Jews, the place of the healing of the blind man by Jesus Christ.
Return to the hotel. Dinner. Rest.

Early breakfast at the hotel.

Th The site of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Magdale: the temple and miraculous spring of St. Mary Magdalene. Mount Beatitude is the site of the proclamation of the Sermon on the Mount; a panorama of the Lake of Genisareth. «And came to Capernaum, the city of Galilee». (Luke 4:31). Capernaum is the birthplace of the disciples of Christ - the apostles Andrew, James, John, as well as the publican (tax inspector) Matthew - the future author of one of the Gospels. Here is the Temple of the 12 Apostles. t
And the quiet lagoon of Tabha, lying nearby, served as the stage for many gospel stories, including the miracle of multiplying bread and fish.
«It, having taken five loaves and two fish and having seen on the sky, has blessed them, has broken and has given to pupils to distribute to people» (Luke 9:16)
«… Here Jesus preached his doctrine, living in the house of Peter, in the place of which the Benedictine Monastery (St. Peter’s Church) now stands. House of St. Peter the Apostle. Greek Monastery and Temple in the name of the Twelve Apostles.

The Temple of «multiplication of breads and fish». «The Bay of Proverbs» - where the Savior taught people from a boat.
Lunch - in the menu of fish of St. Peter. Jordan River - ablution in the sacred waters.
Transfer through the Bekaa Valley. Completion of the pilgrimage, independent visit to the Temple of the Resurrection..

Accommodation in a hotel in Jerusalem. Dinner. Rest.