Holy Week in the Holy Land: A Pictorial Journey Part II

Click here for Part I of Holy Week in the Holy Land: A Pictorial Journey.

The Mount of Olives is the scene of several events in the passion narrative. It lies east of the Old City and is the location of several important churches and landmarks:

  • Church of All Nations
  • Church of Mary Magdalene
  • Dominus Flevit Church
  • Chapel of Ascension
  • Gethsemane
  • Mary’s Tomb
  • Church of the Pater Noster

Mount of Olives

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Church of Mary Magdalene

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The Church of Mary Magdalene is a Russian Orthodox Church which celebrates the role of Mary Magdalene in the Gospels.

Dominus Flevit Church

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Dominus Flevit Church commemorates Christ’s tears for Jerusalem:

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it.

– Luke 19:41

 

 

Nathan Chase

Nathan P. Chase is Assistant Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO. He has contributed a number of articles to the field of liturgical studies, including pieces on liturgy in the early Church, initiation, the Eucharist, inculturation, and the Western Non-Roman Rites, in particular the Hispano-Mozarabic tradition. His first book The Homiliae Toletanae and the Theology of Lent and Easter was published in 2020. His second monograph, published in 2023, is titled The Anaphoral Tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus.’

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One response to “Holy Week in the Holy Land: A Pictorial Journey Part II”

  1. Lee Bacchi

    Nathan — These photos bring back wonderful memories of my pilgrimage in the Holy Land in 1979.

    Thanks for posting them!!

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