Pilgrimages & Retreats
Encounter with Jesus - 10 days in the Holy Land
This pilgrimage is for 10 days. Flying into Tel Aviv from London Heathrow, we stay for five nights in the Judaean hills visiting Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Ein Karem, and then travel north to the Sea of Galilee to rest for Yom Kippur. The following days we spend time at the sites of Jesus’ ministry around the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth, Cana and Caesarea Philippi, before finishing on the last day at Mount Carmel.
Healing and Thanksgiving - 12 days in the Holy Land
This pilgrimage is for 10 days. Flying into Tel Aviv from London Heathrow, we stay for five nights in the Judaean hills visiting Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Ein Karem, and then travel north to the Sea of Galilee to rest for Yom Kippur. The following days we spend time at the sites of Jesus’ ministry around the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth, Cana and Caesarea Philippi, before finishing on the last day at Mount Carmel.
In the footsteps of Jesus - 10 days in the Holy Land
This is a 10 day pilgrimage, flying into Tel Aviv from London Heathrow and beginning at Emmaus in the hills west of Jerusalem where we spend a couple of days walking in Bethlehem and in Jerusalem. The next days are in Jerusalem following the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. Then we travel to northern Israel to stay by the Sea of Galilee and visit Nazareth and the sites of Jesus’ teaching ministry and the miracles he performed.
Moses to Jesus - Palestine, Israel and Jordan
This is a 16-day pilgrimage, flying from London to Tel Aviv, beginning in Israel and ending in Jordan. After 9 nights in Israel and Palestine we cross into Jordan at the Northern crossing and return to London from Amman. We have an initial night in luxury at the Dead Sea on arrival in Jordan before heading to Petra and the Wilderness of Feynan, the spectacular hills of Wadi Mujib and finishing with the Baptism site at the River Jordan. In Palestine and Israel we stay in the Judaean hills and spend time in Bethlehem and Jerusalem before travelling north to stay for three nights at the Sea of Galilee.
This is a pilgrimage with two possibilities. It can be for 16 days or 9 days.
Contemplative Retreat in the Judaean Hills
Beginning in the village of Ephraim, moving to Kiriat Yearim and concluding at the Sea of Galilee, this 12-day retreat repeats St Anselm's invitation "Come, insignificant man, fly for a moment from your affairs, escape the tumult of your thoughts… abandon yourself to God and rest a little in him” and perhaps give answer to Jesus, "What did you go out into the desert to see?" Matt 11:7.
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“I liked the personal nature of the group, we were able to do and see things and meet people which we could not have done in a large group. We were led and organised by people we knew – Della had made a point of getting to know us in the year before we left, and we liked the books of scriptures and the book for the itinerary and the liturgies – it enabled us effortlessly to keep a journal.”
— Barney (Devon)