... And we also saw a great many Jews coming in their gate on the south side of the city , near the wall and in their keenness to get in nice and early we witnessed not one but five cars parked in this most unusual fashion...
There wasn't much room but this is ridiculous.
The morning was spent learning about the parables of Matthew with Pino again. The highlight of which was receiving a Skype video message from my class back home. It was great to see them all. Thanks guys.
In the afternoon, after a short nap and some thinking time we shared our reflections of our trip to Galilee last week. Sr. Bernadette invited us to express our thoughts in any way we chose and as creative as possible. We had a mime , a few poems, two songs , one with an interpretative dance attached. It was fun!
In the evening we went for a wander up into down town Jerusalem to join in the Sukkot festivities. A Thai meal followed by the unusual experience of attending a Hebrew Catholic mass in a small church set up for this small group of people. Here is one of the icons in this the one and only church of the day.
The talk afterwards with Fr. David Neuhaus, a Jewish Jesuit priest who was very articulate in giving the other side to the talk we received last night... the complex reality of Israeli Palestine . He was very articulate and a clever thinker ... A prophet Tony Brennan said ... and he is not far from the truth.
On the way home we enjoyed an ice cream
An impressive 14613 today. Maybe I'll go for another long walk by myself tomorrow before breakfast. Especially as it a day in the classroom again.
Is the icon a representation of the immaculate conception..
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