![]() ![]() At Mount Carmel, we had a Mass together with the priests at the Stella Maris Monastery. There is also a school there because this was much too large for the present community.įrom Nazareth we went to Mount Carmel. Now the sisters live in a modern building and the Brothers live in the old building. (I visited) the original Poor Clare monastery where he actually lived. There is still one nun there who knew him personally. While the priests were visiting the Basilica, I walked over to the nearby Poor Clare monastery where Blessed Charles de Foucauld had lived for three years at the turn of the 20th Century. Then, in the afternoon, we went to Nazareth where we visited the Basilica of the Annunciation. One example of this would be the room where the scrutatio takes place, which is very much like a yeshiva, the Jewish monastic setting to study the Scriptures. Therefore, the Jewish people have found themselves at home there. The Domus Galilaeae has become quite a point of contact with the Jewish faith, in great part because Kiko Arguello, one of the initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way, has always emphasized the Jewish roots of Catholicism. Just as the Gospel begins with a call to conversion, our retreat began Tuesday morning with a penance service with all of our priests as well as several lay people who were there, many of them from Boston, on another pilgrimage.Īfter the Penance Service, we had a "scrutatio" or "scrutiny of the Word of God," which is a Lectio Divina, within Domus Galilaeae. It overlooks the Sea of Galilee and is very close to Capernaum, the ancient ruins of Korazim and the place where Jesus performed the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. We began our pilgrimage arriving on Monday night at the Domus Galilaeae, a Catholic center of the Neocatechumenal Way on the Mount of Beatitudes. For us it is an extraordinary way to appreciate the Gospels and Jesus's life and works. It provides an opportunity to actually visit the places where Jesus walked and experience the culture, geography and history of the people that inhabit this part of the world that is such an important place for Christians, Jews and Muslims. ![]() Coming to the Holy Land is an extraordinary experience, which opens up the Scriptures in a very powerful way for people to understand what we read about in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. ![]()
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