The other side, different than I was before. Physical change within me, like walking through a wall of water and emerging on There, in that place that two-thousand-years ago happened an event so The hundreds of people in line behind us and all those ahead of us. Sue and I lay down a candle and some religious medals Time, knelt before the star, touched it, said a short prayer, saw where the We walked down fourteen steps into the grotto, two at a A humble place of birth, a cave, populated with livestock It is in the back of the caves of Joseph, as Religious sites in Christianity, the one that has the most concordance inĪgreement of actual location is the birthplace of Jesus, and it is a small grotto, House where were kept the livestock and household provisions. As He does, God provided, and theyįound a person who allowed them to stay in the basement, or cave beneath the The reason for everyone to return to their home of record, all the homes wereĪlready filled with families and guests. The reason there was no room at the inn was because it took JosephĪnd the nine-month pregnant Mary seven days to reach Bethlehem whereas it tookĮveryone else five-days, so by the time they arrived for the census, which was Jesus was born in a cave, quite different than what most Morning mass in a Chapel off the Church of the Nativity Kings that had a similar appearance, in dress, to Persian kings and so they

The Church was because when they entered the church, they saw artwork depicting Which they destroyed everything else Christian.

The churches we visited, only the Church of the Nativity escaped the destructionīy the Persians during the 14-year period in the 7 th century during Peter, James and John may have slept next to or under it was overwhelming. Olive trees that were present the night of the Agony in the Garden, trees that Taught the disciples to pray the Our Father the Garden of Gethsemane and theĪgony on the rock, inside of the Church of the Agony, next to two-thousand-year-old Of Ascension on the Mount of Olives the Church of the Pater Noster, where Jesus Jerome, who transcribed the Word of Godįrom a dying Greek language to Latin over the course of twenty years the Rock The Church of the Nativity that holds the birthplace of Jesus,

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