A window into the past, Israel serves as the ultimate destina- tion to reach the deepest level of spirituality. Also to experi- ence being in the places that one can only imagine by reading about the miracles that occurred within its borders. Traveling to this historic site can strengthen ties between congregations. Also among the people from all over the world who come to witness these unforgettable milestones.
From the moment you start planning your trip to Israel, you will see a bond and camarade rie through the passion and fire to see the places that have been read and talked about during sermons and scriptures. A trip to Israel will strengthen the faith of all who attend and provide memories and stories for members to pass down for years to come. With countless cities and quotes from the Bible ready to be explored and seen, this is the perfect place to travel.
Pilgrimage to holy places - journeys to sites that com- memorate important events in faith and history - has always been the tradition of the Catholic Church. We know that those who have faith have always felt the need to travel to visit the sites, to touch the stones, to smell the odors, to pray the prayers. By doing that, the Catholic pilgrim strength- ens his faith, experiences a spiritual healing, listens more closely to the lessons of the scriptures and to the messages of the apparitions. There is no better way to learn the cha- risma and spirituality of the founders of religious orders and other saints, to understand the historical, cultural and religious context in which events occurred and their texts were written. Our expertise in organizing journeys to the Holy Land, to Rome, Fatima, Lourdes and other significant holy places designed for the Catholic Pilgrim.
Paul first visited Greece on his second missionary tour, coming from Troy in Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey. The year was around AD 49. According to the account in the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, the occasion was a vision that Paul had one night while he was in Troy. In the vision, a Macedonian stood before him and begged him to cross the Aegean Sea and further into Macedonia to bring the word of Christ to his people. Paul himself and his associates saw in this vision an invitation from the Lord to preach his Gospel in this region of Greece. Obeying divine command, Paul and his associates traveled by ship from Troy to Samothrace, and from there to Kavala.
Beyond the apostle Paul, Turkey is also the Cappadocian fathers, Saint John the Evangelist. Saint John of the Apocalypse, the great councils & the Church of the East How to structure a proper Pauline program is our attempt in these tours.
The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela or Pilgrimage to Compostela is a Catholic pilgrimage whose goal is to reach the tomb attributed to the apostle Saint James the Greater, located in the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia (Spain). It is a "Path strewn with many demonstrations of fervor, penance, hospitality, art and culture, which speaks elo- quently to us of the spiritual roots of the Old Continent". Created and established after the discovery of the relics of Jacques de Zébédée at the beginning of the 9th century, the pilgrimage to Compostela became from the 11th century onwards a great pilgrimage of medieval Christianity, but it was only after the capture of Granada in 1492, under the reign of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella the Catholic, which Pope Alexander VI officially declared Santiago de Compostela to be one of the "three great pilgrimages of Christianity, along with those of Jerusalem and Rome.
