Tuesday of Holy Week

The Risen With Christ Course started the day at Pater Noster, the church originally built over a grotto where it is believed Jesus taught his apocalyptic discourses during the first Holy Week.  Today it mostly commemorates the teaching of the Lord's Prayer.  The conversation about Jesus's teaching about the end times, and the relation those lessons have to preaching and teaching in the 21st century was very rich.  Then we walked down the Mount of Olives, retracing much of the route we took on Sunday, to the Church of all Nations (also known as the Church of the Agony) and the Garden of Gethsemane.  The combination of the garden and church and the passage out of Luke about Jesus's prayer in the garden was sobering, to say the least.  We finished the day with a lecture anticipating the Ceremony of Holy Fire on Saturday--something very new to me as a western Christian.