Ukrainian pilgrims to take part in Great Blessing of the water on Jordan River
The group includes 40 persons from Kiev, Odessa, Mukachevo, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and other cities of Ukraine.
Upon the arrival in the night of 14 to 15 January, the pilgrims prayed at the Divine Liturgy in Jerusalem Church of Christ’s Resurrection. The accommodation of the travelers was provided by the Russian Spiritual Mission in the “Pilgrim House” hotel, located in Bethlehem.
On 18 January, on the eve of the Baptism of Christ, the Ukrainian pilgrims are going to take part in the Great Blessing of the water on the shore of River Jordan, led by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilus III of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine.
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