PUBLIC MINISTRY

Hello, my fellow pilgrims!  Are you excited to see where our adventures on day 4 of our Holy Land pilgrimage will take us?  I continue to pray the places and scriptures come alive so you personally experience the fifth gospel.  Try to take a few minutes to pause, think about, and answer the reflection questions you will find along the way. Enjoy today’s sights, my dear reader~

Below is the Holy Land map again so you can see the places we have visited. We started at Mount Arbel, not specified on this map, but it is located near Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee. We then traveled to Nazareth, to Bethlehem, to the Jordan River, to the Mount of Temptation, and to the Judean Desert. The desert spans from Jericho through Hebron and along the Dead Sea. Our pilgrimage today takes us to Cana, Capernaum, and a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, which might be a little rough!

 

 

Cana, our first stop, is where Jesus performed His first miracle or sign, as St. John calls them, at a wedding feast. Continue reading “PUBLIC MINISTRY”

BE PREPARED

You know that scout motto that has been around forever…BE PREPARED?Let’s take a few moments and reflect on those words.

A quick google search on the Scout Motto of BE PREPARED yielded some of these thoughts from Wikipedia:

BE PREPARED  means you are always in a state of readiness.

–Be prepared in Mind

–Be prepared in Body

You have to be prepared at any moment to face difficulties and even dangers by knowing what to do and how to do it. Continue reading “BE PREPARED”