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new tentative predictions for this season and what will happen in each episode

i'm so hyped for the rest of this season but also. so much of the manga we still have to wait for s8 for. let's see how much exactly

manga spoilers below cut

star vs. tomura START [329-331]

star vs. tomura END, class A's first appearance [332-335]

class A training montage, UA traitor reveal, [336-337]

izuku and iida meet with hatsume, aizawa talks to aoyama [338-340]

toga visits her childhood home, class A learn the plans for the final war, izuku and ochako's cliffside chat, war START [341-343]

flashback to the plan to deceive AFO using brainwashing (hi shinso!!), divide and conquer starts, toga yoinks izuku [344-346]

UA big three + jeanist + edgeshot + mandalay + mirko + monoma + aizawa + katsuki vs. "tomura" START, toga's confession to izuku, ochako + tsuyu vs. toga START, shoto vs. dabi START [347-349]

dabi's backstory, shoto vs. dabi pt1 END, shoto's phosphor [350-352]

endeavor vs. AFO START, AFO reveals his involvement with touya, endeavor loses his arm, enter: jirou and tokoyami, jirou loses an ear[353-355]

endeavor vs. AFO CONT. endeavor backstory cut back to the battle on UA's tomb, howitzer impact: cluster [356-358]

enter; UA big three, katsuki's humiliation, tenko shimura mention, suneater's big move [359-361]

katsuki's death, dabi gets back up, skeptic hacks UA, AFO starts to rewind, edgeshot starts to repair katsuki's body [362-364]

edgeshot continues to repair katsuki's body, heroes vs. "tomura" END, izuku's here!, izuku goes ballistic upon seeing katsuki's body, END COUR ONE [365-367]

COUR TWO START, izuku vs. shigaraki START, izuku uses gearshift, mic + koda + shoji vs. spinner + heteromorph army START [368-370]

shoji backstory, koda lore, rush to kurogiri/shirakumo [371-373]

kurogiri uses portals, sad man's parade START, cut to ochako + tsuyu vs. toga, endeavor leaves to fight dabi [374-376]

izuku vs. shigaraki CONT., enter: gentle + la brava, enter: lady nagant, izuku takes shigaraki away from UA [377-379]

business course starts recording, kurogiri takes aizawa and mic in a portal, enter: shiketsu, dark shadow: light of baldur, cut to ochako + tsuyu vs. toga, enter: shinso + machia + kirishima [380-382]

flashback to mina + kirishima + shinsou @ jaku hospital ruins, mina saves shinso from sludge villain, machia lore, news reporter helicopters start circling the fights, tokoyami's defeat, hawks' defeat, AFO steals fierce wings, mineta appears, stain appearance [383-385]

dabi threatens to explode, AFO speeds towards shigaraki, all might contacts iida and shoto, iida takes shoto and runs towards dabi, all might intercepts AFO, geten is related to rei, endeavor meets dabi, dabi awakens an ice quirk, enter: mama rei [386-387]

enter: natsuo + fuyumi, iida and shoto reach dabi, the todoroki family all fall unconscious [388-390] [shoto todoroki: rising]

cut to ochako vs. toga, toga's backstory, toga clones a bunch of heroes, toga stabs ochako, ochako's quirk awakening [391-393]

ochako and toga chat about romance, twice clones start to fade, toga transforms into ochako and begins a blood transfusion, toga passes out, cut to all might vs. AFO, all might reveals his mecha suit, all might starts trash talking AFO lmao [394-397]

all might: rising, all might starts using class a's "quirks", aoyama + hagakure appearance, all might uses "navel laser", hagakure is visible, enter: stain! [398-400]

stain's defeat, AFO tries to use his warp quirk, AFO dangles all might for izuku to see, all might tries to self-destruct and fails, AFO begins ripping all might in half, an explosion is heard from UA, katsuki's revival. END SEASON 7 [401-403]

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Bear With me  By minwoonfi (twitter)

Author description: a jikook fluff/crack au where Kumamon, a famous Japanese bear character jokingly confesses to rising star Park Jimin. It was all fun and games until Jimin and the person behind Kumamon aka Jeon Jungkook, falls in love w/ each other for real.

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We Are Miraculous, Ch. 3: Assemble

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*

This may well be the worst morning of Adrien Agreste’s life. And he's had a lot of bad mornings.

His hands haven’t shaken this badly since the day he realized his mother wasn’t coming back. Every single sense is cranked up to twelve: he can feel every itchy, excruciating fiber of the clothes against his skin, the babble of the classroom and the whine of the fans in every electronic device assaults his ears, every blinking light tries to snatch his attention. He’s on the verge of another of what his mother always called his “episodes” in an exasperated tone—there’s a brief memory of her tearing up, asking if he can’t just once not overreact to such inconsequential things. He still doesn’t understand why it’s so hard for him to control. And his father refuses to acknowledge it.

Caron Questions Hero’s Qualifications After Shocking Confession from Ladybug

Adrien wants to scream. He wants to vomit. He knows that, right now, his Lady is seeing the same headline he is. He knows that, despite her incredible strength, there are places where she is fragile. He knows that right now she must be breaking. She needs him, she needs him and he can’t get to her, and everything’s too loud and too close.

Marinette is okay at least, Alya is taking care of her. Adrien wishes he could have helped but right now he’s an upside-down remote control car, wheels spinning uselessly in the air as he rocks in the mud. He hugs his chest, holding onto his biceps—he's rocking slightly in his chair, trying not to lose control. You're better than this, he thinks, in a voice that sounds very much like his mother's, trying to help him past an episode. You're stronger than this. You're not gonna get overwhelmed—

"Adrien," Nino says, very softly. It layers on top of everything else, but thinly, barely a push on top of all the rest of the things screaming for his attention. Adrien turns his head, looks at Nino's collarbones—can't meet his eyes right now. Too hard. Too—Adrien doesn't know the word.

Nino is holding a mechanical pencil; Adrien's not quite sure where he got it, he doesn't use them. He quickly and calmly disassembles it, laying the pieces out in front of Adrien.

Adrien blinks, and then his hands reach out and twist the top of the pencil back onto the body, and all of the lights and noises assaulting his senses begin to quiet down. He slides the eraser tube back into the pencil. The buzzing from the overhead lights is still there, but he can push it back now, ignore it. He can hear Madame Bustier's lecture again without it being garbled.

He clicks the pencil once, twice, three times, then pushes the lead back in so it's short enough not to snap when he writes. How did you know that would work? he scribbles on the edge of his notebook, not even bothering to put in the (usually painful) effort it takes to make his handwriting legible, much less the "elegance expected of an Agreste."

Miraculously, somehow, Nino can read it. He snaps the cap of his pen back and forth with his thumb, then scratches out a message on his own notebook—Chris does the same thing.

Adrien nods and tries to hand the pencil back to Nino, but Nino shakes his head, pushing it back. "You gotta fidget," he whispers.

Adrien takes the pencil back, confused; but by the time class lets out for lunch and he's disassembled and reassembled the pencil enough times that he's lost track of the number, he thinks he might be starting to understand.

*

"Hey Lila?" Alya says as they're getting up for lunch. "Uh... what happened to your hair?"

Adrien—along with the rest of the class—turns to look, but he can't see what Alya's talking about; Lila's hair looks pretty normal to him. Everyone else in the class looks confused too.

Lila reaches up to paws desperately at her scalp. "No, no, no," she whispers. "Alya, is there something in my hair?"

Alya blinks. "Oh, um, no, it's nothing!" she giggles. "Looks nice."

Adrien can't quite tell if she's being sarcastic. He suspects it, yeah, but anyway that's not important right now.

"Nino," he says as he stuffs his backpack, "I've got something kind of urgent I gotta do for the next few minutes. I'll meet you in the park in ten?"

Nino tilts his head, pursing his lip. "Yeah, sure," he says, mercifully not asking what it is that Adrien is doing, which is good because he hadn't planned out a lie and he's not great at coming up with them on the spot.

*

On the roof of the school, Chat Noir paces, staring at the screen of his baton-phone. Is now a bad time to call? What if she's mad at him for it? What if she hasn't seen the headline yet and he causes a panic attack?

He presses call.

"Kitty?" Her voice comes through the speakers clear as magic, high and soft and calm, and his lungs unwind from where they've tightened themselves around his heart, finally allowing him to breath again. "You okay?"

He slumps against the roof access door. "Actually, I was gonna ask you that," he says. "I, um, I saw the..."

Ladybug sighs. "The op-ed."

"Yeah." He licks his lips. "I'm—I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you. When, you know, when you saw it. This morning."

"Oh, Chaton," she says with a sad chuckle. "I know." He hears her snort. "I know you'd have been there if you knew who I was, but—"

"You two should kiss!" shouts another voice from the same line, much quieter and much farther away.

"Shut up, Rena!" Ladybug giggles.

Chat straightens at the sound of her laugh. "You're not alone," he says, smiling.

"Yeah," Ladybug says. "I... kind of accidentally blew my identity to Rena last night, so she found me this morning as soon as the article came out. Took care of me for a bit."

Chat's chest falls. "Oh," he says. "That's... that's good." He's glad she had somebody with her, but...

Evidently she hears the hurt in his voice."You know I would've told you first if I thought it was safe," she says. "If it had been intentional—"

There's jostling on the other end of the line, a quick give me that and a hands off before Rena's voice is coming out of the speaker. "I only found out by accident," she says. "And a little detective work. Can confirm, she didn't mean for it to happen."

Chat's ribcage loosens a bit again. "Oh," he says.

"If I'd had a choice it would've been you!" he hears Ladybug call towards the phone, and his heart leaps.

"Listen," Rena says. "I have an idea. Do you know where the Lycée François Dupont is? Ground zero for Horrificator, Reflekta, and Zombizou?"

Chat raises an eyebrow and looks down at that very school under his feet. "I'm... familiar, yeah," he says.

"Meet us on the roof after school lets out," Rena says. "We've got a message for Caron and we need you to help us deliver it."

"Yeah?" Chat says, rising to his feet.

"Yeah," Rena says. "No matter what: we stand with Ladybug."

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1. The vacuum of time. 2. Terror in the night. 3. Flashes of euphoria. 4. Dancing with the devil. 5. Fatal accident. 6. Haunting melody. 7. Black ice.

8. Breathtaking reality. 9. Sensation of loss. 10. Shooting star. 11. Broken spirit. 12. Central power. 13. Left behind. 14. Unguarded touch. 15. Last time. 16. Dying sun. 17. Devastating explosion. 18. Alone in a crowd. 19. Fragmented truths. 20. Gaping chasm. 21. Arise from the ashes. 22. What lies beyond forever./? 23. Remember me. 24. Flash of lightning. 25. Suffer the agony. 26. Immortal laughter. 27. A whisper on the wind. 28. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. 29. The calm before the storm. 30. A life of lies. 31. The winds of change. 32. The hand of fate. 33. Desperate plea. 34. Nightmare. 35. Bound by iron. 36. Caught in the act. 37. Sensual command. 38. Close your eyes. 39. Beyond the horizon. 40. Finality. 41. And it is beautiful. 42. Lie to me. 43. Tarnished. 44. I covet you. 45. Caress the darkness, kiss the light. 46. Screaming silence. 47. One dream, one lifetime. 48. Fleeting flame. 49. Gasping confession. 50. Betrayal.

51. Uncontrollable wrath. 52. Dragons in the shadows. 53. Natural disaster. 54. Leap of faith. 55. Faceless and nameless. 56. Harsh revelation. 57. A path to follow. 58. The power of goodbye. 59. Through a child's eyes. 60. One final look back. 61. Smoldering heart. 62. Ignored instinct. 63. Seductive danger. 64. Jumbled truths. 65. Shallow grave. 66. Why they call it falling. 67. Volcano. 68. Dying land. 69. A child's truth. 70. Fire and storm. 71. Chained to mortality. 72. Dim as an ember. 73. Acid tears. 74. Unexpected emptiness. 75. Miraculous relief. 76. Letting go. 77. What Earth once was. 78. Frantic search. 79. Tragic moment. 80. Beneath the smiles. 81. Across the worlds. 82. In the still of the night. 83. Counting years. 84. How you suffered for your sanity. 85. Surrender to despair. 86. Ring of sunlight. 87. Creaking cold. 88. Serenity incarnate. 89. Beloved sin. 90. Enfold your heart in mine. 91. Shard of honor. 92. Horrific distortion. 93. Miraculous ruin. 94. Leap into my arms. 95. Bewildered madness. 96. Ravenous time. 97. Approaching doom. 98. Eternal danger. 99. Vacant arch. 100. Recoil.

101. Intentional suffering. 102. Urban legend. 103. Gentle warmth. 104. Rippling tide. 105. Fallen haze. 106. That's all I ask of you. 107. Think of me. 108. Promise me. 109. A white rose. 110. Weary wanderer. 111. Ghost of a rose. 112. Fire. 113. Enchanting surrender. 114. Cowering sunrise. 115. Deliverance. 116. Resisting temptation. 117. Leaves of amber. 118. A shining road that leaves me all alone. 119. Heart of a child. 120. Don't scream. 121. Kiss the hand that feeds you. 122. Mysterious stranger. 123. One heart, one breath. 124. The truth about forever. 125. Ragged hunger. 126. Don't look away. 127. Lost soul. 128. Wandering spirit. 129. Touched by an angel. 130. Shattered reflections. 131. For the sake of sin. 132. Ripple effect. 133. Don't you dare. 134. You can't do that! 135. There will always be a monster. 136. Intimate embrace. 137. It's too late. 138. Cabin by the sea. 139. Guardian. 140. Amusingly inconsequential. 141. Unbroken illusion. 142. Stealth forsaken. 143. Of blood and honor. 144. As the wind kindles the fire. 145. Mysterious memories. 146. A song of sweet forgiveness. 147. Resonating hunger. 148. Relinquished radiance. 149. Transcendent joy. 150. Silent watcher.

151. When eyes believe in mysteries. 152. To love a storm. 153. Sweet nothings. 154. Unfinished tale. 155. Endless night. 156. Suffocating silence. 157. You must hold what you cannot keep. 158. You must fear what you cannot know. 159. You must fear what you cannot speak. 160. Ancient willow. 161. Off the map. 162. Deserted riverbank. 163. You must sow what you cannot reap. 164. A walk along the shore. 165. A valley of echoes. 166. Purity. 167. Fire and ash. 168. Secret bonding. 169. A time for tenderness. 170. Sleeping storm. 171. Islands in the sky. 172. Unheeded warning. 173. Battling oblivion. 174. Spellbound. 175. Blameless. 176. Tempting enigma. 177. Compassion's shadow. 178. Gently stirring. 179. I hate love. 180. Irresistible coercion. 181. No excuses offered. 182. Tumbling clouds. 183. Blue mists. 184. When history repeats itself. 185. Seek and find. 186. Memories unfurling in the mind. 187. Nothing lost, nothing gained. 188. Delicious tragedy. 189. The in between. 190. Into the river. 191. You're only sleeping. 192. What can you see? 193. Calling you home. 194. Into the world of night. 195. Somewhere. 196. Lamentation. 197. The moment. 198. Suddenly. 199. Childhood's end. 200. Broken weapon.

201. Gazing upon the sky with dampened eyes. 202. Vast horizons. 203. Entrapment. 204. Quaking knees. 205. Memory of a dream. 206. Dangerous illusion. 207. In the hands of a child. 208. Outrageous superstitions. 209. Guilty morals. 210. Fragile as a dream 211. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. 212. Portal. 213. Fall from grace. 214. Balance of power. 215. Out of sight, out of mind. 216. Diamond in the rough. 217. The essence of life. 218. No hope was left in sight. 219. Desire, ask, believe, receive. 220. A fate worse than death. 221. The razor's edge. 222. Reach for the stars. 223. Touch me. 224. Unrequited. 225. Perhaps they never will. 226. Laughter forbidden. 227. Starved for affection. 228. Between a rock and a hard place. 229. No man is an island. 230. Vengeance. 231. Rough hands. 232. Mystery. 233. After tonight. 234. Farewell. 235. And the edges blur. 236. One thousand promises. 237. A broken sensitivity. 238. A curling shadow. 239. A darker pride. 240. A deluge of dancers. 241. To carry you along. 242. A four leaf clover. 243. A golden shield. 244. A love remembered. 245. A lustful lie. 246. A magical time. 247. Down the silent river. 248. With Heaven's love at stake and hell to pay. 249. Worth losing you forever. 250. A story never to be told.

251. All sorts of complicated. 252. The tears of God. 253. Alone I crumble. 254. Defying gravity. 255. No one mourns the wicked. 256. Die alone. 257. Asleep at dawn. 258. Heart's assassin. 259. Based on a dream. 260. Once upon a December. 261. Before the next tear falls. 262. The beginning of goodbye. 263. A lonely tomorrow. 264. Beneath the blue. 265. Better left unsaid. 266. Thoroughly ravished. 267. Beyond the universe. 268. Black and white. 269. Blood and moon. 270. Blood feud. 271. Bribing the Devil. 272. Broken promises. 273. False gold. 274. By midnight's favor. 275. By the light of a million stars. 276. Castles in the sky. 277. Catastrophe in the making. 278. Creeping nightmare. 279. Crimson bloom. 280. Crown of ivy. 281. Call of the wild. 282. Darkness becomes you. 283. Dawn of night. 284. Dawning upon a crimson ruin. 285. To flatter death. 286. Demon tongue. 287. And it is terrible. 288. Fighting destiny. 289. Burning star. 290. Do you remember the end? 291. Oath bound. 292. When innocence meets its death. 293. Tossing pennies to the moon. 294. Soul's surrender. 295. Edge of sanity. 296. Candy-coated dreams. 297. Equinox rising. 298. Ethereal. 299. Swelter. 300. Exquisite and unforgivable.

301. Face down I cry. 302. Fallen fae. 303. Light step. 304. Faery-eyed child. 305. Slow burn. 306. A childhood dream. 307. Fields of dust. 308. Final breath. 309. Reaching for eternity. 310. Flames of twilight. 311. For the child I will sing. 312. Serenade the sea. 313. Lost beginning. 314. Forgotten, not forgiven. 315. Fractured reality. 316. Fragile heart. 317. Angels among us. 318. Haunting lonely pools. 319. Portrait in black. 320. Approaching Flood. 321. Cloak of darkness. 322. Wandering hidden paths. 323. Twilight's selfish shade. 324. The tattered, the torn. 325. Invisible defender. 326. Dashed against a rock. 327. I miss who you were. 328. Kisses of a night terror. 329. Two days from now. 330. I wish upon tonight. 331. Tragic sin. 332. If looks could kill. 333. Illuminated darkness. 334. Speak softly to the eastern wind. 335. Shatter the moon. 336. Unfathomable truth. 337. Shackles of the mind. 338. Growing fonder. 339. A time to grieve. 340. Fire in your eyes. 341. Tales of long ago. 342. Crave. 343. Whisper of the wind. 344. Hold still, I'm trying to kill you. 345. Breath of the devil. 346. The innocent can never last. 347. Too wide to cross. 348. Desperate times, desperate measures. 349. Beautiful friendship. 350. In the shade of a Sycamore.

351. Samhain. 352. Midsummer. 353. Intoxicating. 354. Island of light. 355. It ends tonight. 356. Quarter moon. 357. Night of fire. 358. Knowledge in death, wisdom in immortality. 359. Harbor. 360. White wings. 361. A beacon of hope. 362. Like shattered glass. 363. Killing moon. 364. Bless the union. 365. Only by candlelight. 366. Silent sentry. 367. Beyond the shattered pane. 368. To lose what wasn't yours. 369. Blood and tears. 370. Lost island. 371. Garden path. 372. Mint and lilac. 373. Fountains of roses. 374. Mother Earth's last stand. 375. To say goodbye. 376. Horizon's meeting. 377. Breathtaking innocence. 378. Perilous stranger. 379. Lost in dreams. 380. Iron gate. 381. Crystal statue. 382. Treachery runs deep. 383. Warped. 384. Disenchanted. 385. Laughing at the moon. 386. Blind-sided. 387. Future's past. 388. Supernova. 389. Whispers in the dark. 390. Letters from nowhere. 391. The one no one sees. 392. You are everything. 393. Passionate desires. 394. Remnants of darkness. 395. The bitterness of mortality. 396. Too much to hold. 397. Sit with me. 398. You raise me up. 399. Miracle. 400. Trusting soul.

401. Twilight surrender. 402. When love turns to hate. 403. Lost and alone. 404. When the river runs dry. 405. Lapping at the shores of sleep. 406. Landing among the stars. 407. Touch the moon. 408. When stillness descends. 409. On the brink of forever. 410. Clinging to the edge of control. 411. Abandoned resistance. 412. Life companion. 413. Heart within the eyes. 414. When forever fades away. 415. Grave acceptance. 416. Over the rainbow. 417. Falling from a cloud. 418. Time and space. 419. Sunrise upon a soul. 420. Prisms of a fragmented whole. 421. Unexplored cavern. 422. Disembodied voices. 423. Dancing beneath the moon. 424. Alighting on the water. 425. Gliding on glass. 426. A tale rewritten. 427. Exiled child. 428. Sacrificed child. 429. I'll try violence. 430. Who named the stars? 431. Mysterious beyond. 432. Ocean's tears. 433. Siren's song. 434. Sea bed. 435. Living nightmare. 436. Bound by silence. 437. A twinkle in the night. 438. A waking slumber. 439. A soul divided. 440. Speak not the secret you bear. 441. Abandoned by fate. 442. A far green country. 443. Attacked by a dream. 444. Caressed by a nightmare. 445. The ravages of time. 446. Ancient tale. 447. Faces in the clouds. 448. Ripped apart. 449. From better to worse. 450. The space between.

451. Look beyond. 452. Edge of the knife. 453. A human voice. 454. Dream the impossible. 455. Forgotten roads. 456. Petals on the wind. 457. A bitter pill. 458. Another fine mess. 459. The life inside. 460. Still crossroads. 461. Frozen bridges. 462. Fear of the fall. 463. Dear heart. 464. Severed tension. 465. A child's path. 466. Imitation of life. 467. Behind the mirror. 468. Through the fire. 469. Echoes of bondage. 470. Freedom in chains. 471. Last regrets. 472. Unheard of. 473. Hidden tales. 474. Disowned. 475. Frozen fire. 476. White shores. 477. Lights out. 478. Liquid sunset. 479. Silver glass. 480. When words fail. 481. A death of a thousand screams. 482. Those who do not remember the past. 483. When laughter's lost in peaceful silence. 484. The sands of time. 485. When death's lips left mine. 486. Cataclysm. 487. Messenger. 488. When worlds collide. 489. A mortal's forever. 490. When tomorrows run out. 491. You pick! 492. You pick! 493. You pick! 494. You pick! 495. You pick! 496. You pick! 497. You pick! 498. You pick! 499. You pick! 500. You pick!

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Why the Holy Land is the 'fifth gospel' of Christianity

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Why the Holy Land is the 'fifth gospel' of Christianity

Jerusalem, Nov 7, 2018 / 03:07 am (CNA).- Pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a powerful journey that can ignite Christian faith through seeing the places Jesus walked, worked miracles, died and rose from the dead.

The Franciscans who have served in the region say people should go.

“When you come here, you are very moved by the experience. It puts the gospel in perspective,” Father Athanasius Macora, O.F.M., told CNA from Jerusalem. “It’s a very powerful tool for evangelizing or re-evangelizing Catholics.”

Macora, an American, is a friar of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, which oversees the holy sites, helps support the Christian presence in the Holy Land, and welcomes Christian pilgrims from around the world.

Another Holy Land Franciscan, the Ghana-born Father Benjamin Owusu, O.F.M., reflected that the Christian experience of Jesus Christ preceded the written scriptures.

“Jesus said we should go and proclaim the gospel. And the gospel was proclaimed. People came to believe. But not in the written part of revelation… if the Word became flesh, it became flesh in a place. Where is that place? That is the Holy Land,” Owusu told CNA. “The Holy Land also testifies to the Word made Flesh, and that makes it more real to us.”

“By going to the Holy Land, the Holy Land becomes real in the life of Christians because of what it stands for,” he continued. “It is, as Pope Paul VI put it, the ‘fifth gospel’ which is not written on ink, but written on stones.”

Owusu works in the pilgrimage office of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, the Franciscan Custody’s outpost in Washington, D.C. The monastery itself hosts replicas of holy sites and holds various events to help link visitors to the land where Jesus Christ walked.

The Holy Land includes Israel, the Palestinian territories, and parts of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

The diversity of Christian sites there range from the churches and other places marking events like the Annunciation in Nazareth, the Nativity in Bethlehem, Jesus’ ministry along the Sea of Galilee, and of course Jerusalem, where the site of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection is now marked by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Added to these places are the living legacy of the Jewish people. The Wailing Wall, located at the base of the site of the Temple of King David, gathers thousands of Jews who pray and celebrate at the start of every Sabbath.

Muslims too consider Jerusalem a holy site, and the heights Temple Mount, once the site of the Temple, now hosts both the al-Aqsa Mosque and the golden, gleaming Dome of the Rock shrine.

Father Macora said that in his time in the Holy Land, he has witnessed “quite a number of stories” of spiritual enrichment or transformation among Christian pilgrims. People decide to go to confession for the first time in decades because of a visit to the Holy Sepulchre.

“Once I was asked by a friend to guide a woman at the Holy Sepulchre. I don’t think she was practicing her faith, but after she came out of the tomb she was weeping. So she was hit by the experience,” he continued.

Owusu said the Holy Land has played a large role in the Christian imagination “since time immemorial.”

“Believers have always wanted to go back to their roots, to see the places where our salvation history took place. For example, St. Francis of Assisi was so eager to go and see where Jesus was born, where he was crucified, and where he rose again.”

A Holy Land pilgrimage “really helps Christians in their belief, it ignites their faith and helps us to understand the Scripture in a different way.”

Macora has seen pilgrims weeping at the altar in the quiet Basilica of Agony, near the Garden of Gethsemane, the site where Jesus prayed before Judas handed him over to be arrested.

The Franciscan priest, an American who grew up in a military family, has served in the Holy Land for more than 20 years. Among his current roles is guardian of the Flagellation Monastery in Jerusalem.

Meeting local people is an important part of the experience, he commented, as they are “definitely part of the enduring fascination of the Holy Land.” Some people, such as the region’s shepherds, maintain cultural practices similar to those of biblical times. The guides who accompany visitors and pilgrims are very important, serving as “an ambassador of his or her people.”

He also cautioned that the enduring problems and recent history of the Holy Land, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are something that first-time pilgrims can misunderstand.

“I think that they have to understand how complex the Holy Land is,” said Macora. “I think that they need to hear both sides of the story. There is a conflict going on and there are all kinds of sharp rivalries, even between Christians themselves.”

Israel is about 75 percent Jewish. Its Palestinian population, largely resident in the West Bank and the Gaza strip, is about 18 percent Muslim and two percent Christian, with both Christians and Muslims tending to identify as Palestinian Arab. The Christian population has largely declined due to emigration. Only about 16,000 of the 870,000 residents of Jerusalem are Christian, a significant drop in recent decades, CNEWA reports.

Owusu said there is more to the region than many visitors expect. While people hear about the Holy Land through news media, which often tell stories of violence and conflict, he stressed the importance of “those stories we don’t hear: the day-to-day experiences that go on there among these people, where Christians and Muslims live together in the same place, where Jews and Muslims live together in a particular place.”

“Those things never come on the news,” he said. “These are the things that really make the place real. Not occasional crisis, but the day-to-day life that really goes on. That is what people would really like to know.”

“It is a place where life continues,” he said. “People should not be limited to the bad news, but they should look beyond that and be hopeful.”

However, Macora said it is difficult to make deep contact with local people.

“It takes time to understand certain things and this is not easily achieved,” he said. “For someone coming to the Holy Land for the first time, there is a lot of information, almost too much, to process on the first pilgrimage.”

For Owusu, the Holy Land should never be “a museum where you go and only see places.”

“The people are formed in Mother Church, especially the Christians in the Holy Land,” he said. “The people reflect the reality and the history of what we know about the place, especially in connecting it to the Scriptures.”

While Americans can be skeptical of visiting the region, Owusu said locals receive Americans “with two arms open, as they would receive the Polish or the Italians.” Travel to the Holy Land is positive for both the pilgrim and the host.

“It brings them together,” said the priest. “Pilgrimage in this land is also a sign of hope. The people mostly depend on pilgrimages and they also see that, irrespective of whatever situation the American comes from, there is another brother on the other side of the world that may bring them hope.”

“What you bring back from the holy land is faith…. You take your faith there and you bring it back,” Owusu said.

Pilgrim groups hit a record high in January 2018, with 770 groups bringing 26,000 people, the Custody of the Holy Land-sponsored Christian Information Center said in February. In January 2017 only 529 groups visited and a year prior only 390 did.

Israeli government statistics indicate over half of 2017 tourists were Christian and one-quarter were coming on pilgrimage, with over 40 percent having previously visited Israel. The number of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European pilgrims were on the rise, the Jerusalem Post reported in February.

Israeli tourism minister Yariv Levin credited the increase in tourism to his office’s changes, including an improved visa process.

While travel costs and can be a barrier for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Owusu said it is possible with some financial preparation.

“It’s a life experience,” he said. Those with a desire to go could afford it by saving about a thousand dollars a year for several years, he estimated.

Those who want to go on a pilgrimage should contact the Franciscans who work there, he suggested.

“We’ve been doing this since time immemorial,” said Owusu.

The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America has information on pilgrimages at the website holylandpilgrimages.org.

  CNA Daily News – Middle East – Africa

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The Church of Christ rises on the firm foundation of Peter's faith

From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope [ 390 - 461 A.D. ]  The Lord now asks the apostles as a whole what men think of him. As long as they are recounting the uncertainty born of human ignorance, their reply is always the same.Out of the whole world one man, Peter, is chosen to preside at the calling of all nations, and to be set over all the apostles and all the fathers of the Church. Though there are in God’s people many shepherds, Peter is thus appointed to rule in his own person those whom Christ also rules as the original ruler. Beloved, how great and wonderful is this sharing of his power that God in his goodness has given to this man. Whatever Christ has willed to be shared in common by Peter and the other leaders of the Church, it is only through Peter that he has given to others what he has not refused to bestow on them.  But when he presses the disciples to say what they think themselves, the first to confess his faith in the Lord is the one who is first in rank among the apostles.  Peter says: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replies: “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” You are blessed, he means, because my Father has taught you. You have not been deceived by earthly opinion, but have been enlightened by inspiration from heaven. It was not flesh and blood that pointed me out to you, but the one whose only-begotten Son I am.  He continues: And I say to you. In other words, as my Father has revealed to you my godhead, so I in my turn make known to you your pre-eminence. You are Peter: though I am the inviolable rock, the cornerstone that makes both one, the foundation apart from which no one can lay any other, yet you also are a rock, for you are given solidity by my strength, so that which is my very own because of my power is common between us through your participation.  And upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. On this strong foundation, he says, I will build an everlasting temple. The great height of my Church, which is to penetrate the heavens, shall rise on the firm foundation of this faith.  The gates of hell shall not silence this confession of faith; the chains of death shall not bind it. Its words are the words of life. As they lift up to heaven those who profess them, so they send down to hell those who contradict them.  Blessed Peter is therefore told: To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth is also bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed also in heaven.  The authority vested in this power passed also to the other apostles, and the institution established by this decree has been continued in all the leaders of the Church. But it is not without good reason that what is bestowed on all is entrusted to one. For Peter received it separately in trust because he is the prototype set before all the rulers of the Church.