Holy Land 2000

Memories from the Catholic Pictorial’s Holy Land pilgrimage, 2000, led by Bishop Vincent Malone

Following the sad passing of Bishop Vincent Malone the Catholic Pic reflects on the special pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the year 2000 for Pic readers, led by Bishop Vincent and assisted by Mgr John Furnival, Frs Dave Gamble and Eddie O’Toole. Visiting Biblical sites and reading from Scripture at each location, the ultimate story was seen at first hand by those who made their “journey of a lifetime”. Many of the pilgrims used the occasion to fulfill their lifelong dreams of going to the Holy Land and were ‘spiritually and emotionally” uplifted by the experience. The pilgrims visited all places such as the Garden of Gethsemane, the Dead Sea, the Mount of Olives and Cana and the route Jesus took to Calvary was also retraced. Bishop Malone said: “The journey of a Lifetime it is sometimes called – because most Christians can only hope to go once in their lifetime on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. “But the Archdiocesan millennium pilgrimage just completed also recalled the lifetime journey of Christ himself from the moment of his conception at Nazareth to the remembrance of his ascension into heaven from a hill outside Jerusalem – the journey of a lifetime. “Every stop we made on our journey prompted us to turn to the sacred scriptures to refresh our memory of forgotten details of the well-known story, and to absorb the reality of such features as the hillside caves around the shepherds’ fields, the ancient steps that would have led up to the Temple of Jesus’ time, and the Lake of Galilee. “We prayed at many other gospel shrines for the pilgrims’ needs and for those of their relatives and friends back home, as well as for all God’s children. “How focused the mystery of the incarnation becomes when you are

surrounded by the physical context in which God prepared his chosen people for the time when he should send his son to share our human condition. “We have been to the land where the word became flesh and dwelt among us. We pray that we are renewed in our readiness to share with others his Gospel news because we have been touched by the reality of the Incarnation in a new and special way. Thanks be to God”.

Catholic Pic photographer Tom Murphy who recorded Bishop Vincent’s pilgimage to the Holy Land

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