Pre-wedding Party in Nazareth

Posted September 2, 2010 at 4:09 pm

Janet and I are in Nazareth, as I’ve already shared, and right now we are at the pre-wedding party of 1,000 people — family and friends of the bride and grooms family. We are honored to be guests.

The groom’s family puts on this huge party to welcome the family and friends of the bride (including us). Amer and his family had hosted a party for the groom’s family a few days earlier.

Families are very involved in the weddings to a degree unknown in the West. No wonder divorce and premarital sex is virtually unknown here.

I am posting …

Running in Israel

Posted September 2, 2010 at 3:50 am

I will add to this over the next few days.

JerusalemJones Just posted a new Running trip, “2010-09-01 Rosh Pina, Galilee”, to @EveryTrail. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/bKoiip

Picture below: Overlooking Sea of Galilee.

World Will End Next Year

Posted September 2, 2010 at 3:38 am

You might want to mark this date on your calendar http://www.familyradio.com/portal-en.htm/ just so you don’t schedule any important events after the end of the world has come :-)

Seriously, it’s always amazing that there are people gullible enough to follow such nut cases in the wake of innumerable false predictions over the last 2,000 years.

I am so grateful for the sanity of the Catholic Church!

On Our Way to a Wedding in Cana

Posted August 30, 2010 at 2:15 pm

Actually the wedding is in Nazareth, but that is only four miles away. Janet and I are going to the wedding of Nagum Shehadeh who is the beautiful daughter of our friend and local Catholic guide Amer.

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I will also be posting YouTube videos of this authentic Holy Land pilgrimage here on my blog at http://www.CatholicConvert.com/2010.

While there Janet and I will be renting a car, exploring new places, running new trails (like from Nazareth to Cana) and working on our next …

Interesting Items in the News

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