Wow, so I am very tired and yet have been able to get enough sleep to wake up the next day and begin exploring. This is on Thursday, and so we are able to go into Bethlehem to go see the Nativity Church. This is a very beautiful Church, not overly large and we were able to arrive before a lot of the pilgrims were getting there. Before you go into Bethlehem, you can see in the picture that we had to go through a wall that you can see in the background of the picture. This wall surrounds the Palestinian side, which is behind the wall.
The situation is somewhat like this, the Israeli government in order to protect itself setup a wall around all Palestinian areas in order to keep them segregated from the Israeli's, the result is that the Palestinians have been put into something like "Ghettos" to reduce some of violence that was being done by extremist groups. To be quite honest, I don't understand most of the situation, but my experience of the Muslims and Palestinian Christians, has been incredible....so it is really terrible what is being done to them.
Spiritually speaking, I found most amazing, a Church called the Milk Grotto...where milk from Our Lady fell on the ground and was the site of miracles. Now there is a group of cloistered nuns who have Perpetual Adoration there, quite possibly the most beautiful and silent chapel I have been in. There is some to talk about....let me put it this way, the city is intense and full of Religious fervor...
that sounds amazing!
ReplyDeleteMuy buenas las fotos y las explicaciones las estoy disfrutando mucho.
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