Haric Fire in Israel

The pilgrimage is organized with the blessing of His Eminence Vladimir, Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Moldova!

The cost of the pilgrimage includes:

🔹 Flight Chișinău - Tel Aviv - Chișinău

🔹 Accommodation in a hotel

🔹 Two meals a day: breakfast and dinner

🔹 Guide services

🔹 Medical insurance

🔹 Transfers according to the program

🔹 Paid entrance fees + tips for drivers and guides

April 14, 2025. GREAT MONDAY

🔹 Meeting of the group of pilgrims at Chișinău International Airport. Registration for the flight, passport control

🔹 Boarding the plane. Flight to Israel

🔹 Arrival in Tel Aviv, passport control, meeting with the local guide at the airport

 
The Pilgrimage Center is not responsible for flight delays or other actions of the border service! Persons who have problems with the state of Israel, have exceeded their previous stay, or have close relatives working there, will definitely be sent back. We respectfully ask you not to use the pilgrimage as a way to illegally migrate to Israel, as you will definitely be sent back by the border services, and you will lose your money.

April 15, 2025. GREAT TUESDAY

🔹Breakfast.

🔹Jerusalem: - Mount of Olives

- Russian Monastery of the Ascension of the Lord

- Greek Monastery of the Ascension of the Lord "Pantocrator"

- Place of the Ascension of our Lord, footprints

- Panoramic view of the old city of Jerusalem

🔹Gethsemane Complex

- Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene

- Tomb of the Virgin Mary

- Gethsemane Garden

- Church of All Nations

🔹Walking pilgrimage in Jerusalem. Lion's Gate.

🔹Monastery of the Holy Parents Joachim and Anna, built in 1907 above the cave that was previously part of the house of the parents of the Holy Virgin Mary.

🔹Way of the Cross Via Dolorosa.

🔹Praetorium – The Prison where the Savior was held. Monastery founded in the 18th century on the site of the prison where, according to tradition, the Savior was held after Pilate's judgment.

🔹Alexander Nevsky Compound. Built in 1891, it includes the house church of the blessed emperor Alexander Nevsky, as well as the threshold of the Judgment Gate, the smallest gate of ancient Jerusalem "needle's eye", fragments of walls and columns of the first Church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, built during the time of Constantine the Great, discovered later during excavations.

🔹Church of the Resurrection of the Lord (Church of the Holy Sepulchre). The church complex, which includes Golgotha, the Holy Sepulchre, the Stone of Anointing, the katholikon (cathedral of the Jerusalem Patriarchate), chapels in honor of the head of Adam, the scourging, the finding of the Cross of the Lord, and Longinus the centurion. It was originally erected over the place of the Crucifixion and burial of the Lord Jesus Christ in the 4th century and destroyed in 1009. The church was restored around 1048. In the 12th century, it was rebuilt by the Crusaders but was significantly damaged by the fire in 1808. It was restored in its current form in the 1860s.

🔹Monastery of St. John the Baptist in the old city, built on the site of the house where the honorable prophet Zechariah lived. The monastery houses a part of the head of St. John the Baptist.

🔹Dinner at the hotel, rest.

April 16, 2025. GREAT WEDNESDAY

🔹Breakfast.

🔹Mount Tabor - the place of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Greek Monastery "Transfiguration of the Lord"

🔹Cana of Galilee: the place of the first miracle performed by the Savior. Greek Monastery of St. George the Great Martyr

🔹Nazareth: Church of St. Archangel Gabriel on the site of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. Annunciation Spring

🔹Magdala: immersion in the holy springs. Compound of St. Mary Magdalene.

🔹Capernaum: Monastery of the 12 Apostles

🔹Dinner at the hotel, rest.

April 17, 2025. GREAT THURSDAY

🔹Night liturgy at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

🔹Rest, breakfast.

🔹Mount of Temptation: Greek Monastery on the Mount of Temptation

🔹Jericho, the oldest city in the world.

🔹Sycamore of Zacchaeus the tax collector. Greek Monastery.

🔹Jordan River: the place of the Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ. Immersion in the waters of the Jordan

- Monastery of St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

- Icon of the Mother of God "the one who nurses" from the Monastery of St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

- Participation in the Rite of Reading the 12 Gospels

🔹Dinner at the hotel, rest.

April 18, 2025. GREAT FRIDAY

🔹Breakfast.

🔹Bethlehem: The city where the Lord Jesus Christ was born.

- Cave of the Nativity of the Lord

- Church of the Nativity of the Lord, the oldest functioning Christian church in the world, built in the 6th century

- Icon of the Mother of God from Bethlehem

- Cave of the slain infants

🔹Shepherds' Field. Monastery on the Shepherds' Field - the place where angels appeared to the shepherds, announcing the Birth of the Savior

- Lavra of St. Theodosius the Great

- Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified

- Participation in the Service of the Removal of the Holy Epitaph.

- Georgian Monastery of the Holy Cross

- Monastery of St. Simeon the God-Receiver

- Service of Great Friday. Burial of the Lord

🔹 Return to the hotel, dinner, rest.

April 19, 2025. GREAT SATURDAY

🔹Breakfast. Departure from the hotel

🔹Holy Liturgy on Great Saturday.

🔹PROCESSION OF THE RECEPTION OF THE HOLY LIGHT

🔹Transfer to the airport. Flight to Chișinău