6:30 to 9 AM: Men awoke in Madaba, JORDAN at hotel. Some headed to the Shrine of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church. Last night two men received bottles of blessed water from the Jordan River at their local Saturday anticipatory Mass. Men hope to do the same this morning.
In the meantime - as we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord - and prepare to literally cross the Jordan River today - a few photos from days past.
LOOK-UP: Joshua 3:14-17
So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah, (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
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| Day 9: Church at Capernaum. Brother Adam - Pro Ecclesia Sancta - St. Mark's Parish, St. Paul, MN and Paul Strommer - Diocese of Duluth. Standing above the location of the remains of the 5th century as well as 4th century church built on the home of Simon Peter's mother-in-law on the Sea of Galilee. |
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| Day 9: Location of a Byzantine style Church - built 450 AD - altar atop the rock that the 5 loaves and 2 fish were set prior to the Multiplication of the Loaves. |
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| Day 10: Theater - Scythopolis. |
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| Day 11: St. George's Orthodox Church - Mosaic of Transfiguration - in Madaba, JORDAN - Mosaic capitol of the World. |
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| Charlie Friebohle. One of the previous days. |
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