As usual for a trip through the old city of Jerusalem things get lost in your mind quickly.
There are so many holy sites scattered about geographically yet related to one another that it all becomes a blur to be studied and contemplated at some later time when the mind and body are not so tired.
Now is not the time so I will just post pictures.
The disappointment for the day: The mothers at Saint Mary Magdalene Convent and Church would allow only orthodox through the gate. You really can’t blame them as they try to protect their monastic life.
The great blessing for the day: The tomb of the Virgin Mary and the kindness and sweetness of those inside, especially a priest from a Greece with a few Pilgrims singing hymns to the Virgin in the furthest recesses of the tomb, and the nun attending to the little store her name being Nektaria.
And to be fair the blessings of the day far, far out numbered any disappointment whatsoever.
Pictures:
Mosque of Ascension
Ascension
Ascension
Ascension Footprint
Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
View of Jerusalem from the mount of olives
Me
Tomb of the Virgin Mary
Inside the tomb of the Virgin Mary
Western wall
View from inside the old city
Mosaics within the Catholic Church of the Assumption
The Upper Room
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