Day: 22. March 2016

Visiting Yad Vashem Museum

On March 22, we visited Yad Vashem Museum which is located at on the western part of Mount Herzl, just about 20 minutes walk from our Novitiate house at Ein Karem. Yad Vashem Museum is Israel’s museum to remember the victim of the Shoa (Holocaust) and also an educational center for research or documentations to different group coming from the local people and international organizations. Creative and moving Monuments are built around the museum to commemorate about six million Jewish victims, communities, partisans, soldiers and ghetto fighters and their painful experiences during the Shoah. We had with Shlomo Balsam, a Jewish guide, to share with us not only his knowledge about the Shoa(Holocaust) but also about his family who was the victim of the Shoa (Holocaust). Shlomo Balsam introduced to us two parts of the Museum: one is for the educational center which is inside the building and second part as he said, is for the heart, outside of the building which they called “The Hall of Name”. First, Shlomo Balsam toured us outside the …

Palm Sunday 2016

We, the novitiate in Ein Karem had our first Palm Sunday in Jerusalem with the Kehila community (Hebrew Speaking Catholics of Israel). We went early to enjoy the walk and visit some places, it was a good walk from the Old City until Bethpage, the place where the disciples took the donkey to Jesus. It´s now a beautiful Church. “When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethpage and Bethany, close by the Mount of Olives, He sent two of his disciples and said to them, ‘Go to the village facing you, and as you enter it you will at once find a tethered colt that no one has yet ridden. Untie it and bring it here’” Mark 11, 1-2. The procession started in Bethpage Church near the Mount of Olives. We had a wonderful experience to enjoy of Palm Sunday with dancing and a lot of joy. As the people of the Bible we glorify God with all our heart: “Hosanna! Blessed is He who is coming in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the …