We all arose after our first nights stay at Golan Hotel in the heart of Tiberias in the late morning. Every pilgrim commented on the breathtaking view from the hotel which surveys the Sea of Galilee in anticipation of the events of the day.
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We may ask ourselves: what is the basis, the origin, the root of peace? How can we experience that peace within ourselves, in spite of problems, darkness and anxieties?
Tuesday got off to an early start as pilgrims departed the hotel at 8am for Cana. We visited the Church in Cana, believed to be the site where Jesus worked his first sign by turning water into wine.
We have had another busy day in Jerusalem. As well as continuing to take in the historical sites, we have absorbed a lot of theology, dogma and Church teaching along the way.
For more than 200 years the huge three-sided gallows known as the 'Tyburn Tree' stood near the present-day Marble Arch. It was a notorious instrument of mass execution, upon which more than 1000 people met their deaths, including 105 beatified...