Sunday, September 2, 2012

We begin!

God willing, tomorrow morning (Monday, September 3) I will start my tour to Turkey. In Turkey I will join an biblical-archaeological tour on the footsteps of St Paul and St John. We will be visiting some of the more important places linked to the early Christian Communities. Our lecturers will be Prof. Frederic Manns of the Franciscan Biblical Studies in Jerusalem and Prof. Scott Brodeur of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Among others we will visit Istanbul, Ankara, Bogazkale, Cappadocia, Tarsus, Anthioch, Samandag (Seleucia), Silifke, Konya (Iconius), Antioch of Pisidia, Pergamus, Ephesus, Miletus. Unfortunately, we will not visit the sacred places of Patara and Myra, so intimately linked to St Nicholas. It has to be another trip! May the Lord be with us!

7 comments:

Stephen Fleri Soler said...

Hi,
Hope you are fine. Enjoy your trip learing from it. My family and I are also going on a trip (cruise)to the Eastern part of the Mediterranean from the 10th to the 18th September 2012, starting from Izmir in Turkey, Greek islands (including Rhodes)Cyprus and Hiafa and Jerusalem.

Stephen Fleri Soler said...

Hi,
Hope you are fine. Enjoy your trip learing from it. My family and I are also going on a trip (cruise)to the Eastern part of the Mediterranean from the 10th to the 18th September 2012, starting from Izmir in Turkey, Greek islands (including Rhodes)Cyprus and Hiafa and Jerusalem.

Fr Nicholas Cachia said...

Have a nice trip, Stephen. Good to hear from you. God bless you.

Unknown said...

thank you for this blog Fr Nicholas. may you enjoy every second and may our Loving Father fill your heart with more of his love. Blessings! Carmen

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to hearing your inspirational messages. Hope you will take some photos as well and put them on facebook.

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to hearing your inspirational messages. Hope you will take some photos as well and put them on facebook.

Marisa said...

This is really nice to hear from you even across the miles. Hope you are fine? Take care and thanks for these inspirational messages. Will be looking forward for them.

Take care and enjoy