Day 1

We're on our way!

We left from St. Bernard by bus at 5:00 am for Logan Airport. Spirits were high. We're presently in Newark airport and I've had the opportunity to meet the rest of our group. We will have 16 from our parish and 24 from Father David's parish in Massachusetts. We are blessed with terrific people. Now we simply need to patiently wait for our 4:00 departure to Tel Aviv. We will arrive in Tel Aviv approximately 9:15 am on December 1st, Israel time. Our time will be 7 hours ahead of EST time in Connecticut. Each day we will have different pilgrims post their comments and reactions to the sites visited.


We started with the St. Bernard Prayer at our beautiful church before we departed.

























Everyone have their passport?


















We made it to Logan, Newark is next!












Our "puddle jumper" got us safely to Newark on time.














Are we almost there?
















Fr. David chats with Cece and Judy.















Fr. Rick with Pilgrims















Here's our jet! Next stop Tel Aviv!

Welcome to our Holy Land Blog

Dear friends,

Welcome to our Holy Land Blog.

I am so excited that you will be able to journey with us, via this Blog, as we walk in the steps of Christ. Each day we’ll be sending you a journal entry on the sites, photos, and activities of that particular day. The first entry from the Holy Land won’t be up until we finish our first day’s adventure on Tuesday, December 2nd.

Pre-flight jitters are already hitting me as I scramble to get everything ready. Fr. David and I are preparing the homilies, liturgies, and prayer services that we’ll be using during our adventure. I already packed your prayer request so that I won’t forget them in the last minute rush. The booklet will stay with me wherever we go and there will be forty pilgrims praying for our parish.

Monday morning our pilgrimage begins at 5:00 am. The St. Bernard crew, along with yours truly, will be leaving the St. Bernard parking lot in a shuttle bus heading to Logan Airport. It’s a bit early but who’s going to be able to sleep anyways!

Please keep us in your prayers as you will be in ours. May God bless you and our beautiful parish.

With peace,
Fr. Rick