Pilgrims coming home

The Kilcullen parish pilgrimage group to The Holy Land leave Israel today after four days in the Jerusalem area which brought them in the final footsteps of Christ as well as to the place where he was born.

In a packed itinerary since they arrived an the ancient city on Sunday evening they visited Bethlehem, Ein Kerem where Mary went to visit her cousin Elisabeth to tell her she was pregnant, and to the various sites in and around the Old City relating to the arrest, torture and death of Jesus some two millennia ago.

Led by Fr Michael Murphy PP, the group also participated in masses in the Garden of Gethsemane, Bethlehem, and in the Church of St Catherine which houses the Tomb of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre complex.

Earlier in the ten-day trip, the Kilcullen pilgrims visited many of the sites in Galilee where Jesus conducted his short public ministry, as well as going to the Dead Sea.

Pictures from the trip.

Reported from Jerusalem by the Accidental Pilgrim.