The annual Holy Land Pilgrimage in association with MAP Travel , www.maptravel.ie concluded in recent days. The seven day pilgrimage took in all the main religious sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Qumran, and the Galilee.
Mass was celebrated on each day with a Holy Hour in the Garden of Gethsemane, renewal of baptismal vows at The River Jordan, renewal of married vows at Cana and the renewal of religious and priestly commitment at Tabor. During the pilgrimage, the pilgrims met with Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, the Popes Representative to Israel and Palestine – who had previously served in Ireland – Abbot Gregory Collins , an Irish man who is Abbot of Dormitian & Tabgha Monasteries and Abbot Renee from the Trappist Monastery of Latrun, Emmaus.
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