Don't worry, I'll still keep reporting on Galilee, but in the meantime, I have to tell you about the awesomeness of the Palm Sunday walk from Bethany through Lion Gate to St. Anne's Church. This commemorates the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when He rode on a donkey, while the crowd hailed Him with palms waiving and shouts of 'Hosanna.' I imagine it was very exciting and was accompanied by a great feeling of love and brotherhood among the believers.
So, I'll tell you how we did it. We gathered in Bethany with Italians and Filippinos and Egyptians and Palestinians and Haitian/other Caribbeans - Christians from all over the place. MUSICA!! So lively! Eventually, it all turned into a massive parade and a few of us decided to march with the Filippinos, who were singing IN ENGLISH, so we proceeded to sing the most awesome song for at least 30 minutes as we walked down the Mount of Olives, through the Kidron Valley and up to the Lion Gate at the base of the Temple Mount. The really cool thing is that one of the girls in our group just got her mission call to the Philippines Iloilo Mission, so she was on cloud 9 as she shmoozed with 'em. When we got to the church, there was an Arab Christian rock band playing and plenty of dancing and waiving palms around. Exciting! We wandered through the Old City and out the New Gate, near which we watched a parade of scouts! Playing bagpipes! Even the little little ones! Tons of Arab Catholic Scouts! And I took pictures of it all. And someday you'll see them!
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Arab Catholic Scouts.... Not three words I would have typically put together.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a blast!
I feel it would be easier to follow your Galilee adventures if new info were placed in a new post. I don't know if Google Reader identifies an appended post as new. It's also a pain to figure out what part of the appended post is new, and what part is old.
ReplyDeleteYou can also add labels to your posts, for example "Galilee". Also, if you decide to use labels, go into customize the blog layout and add the "Labels" gadget to allow visitors to navigate your posts by label. It's quite handy to use labels because you can add multiple labels to the same post.