[Salvation]

From "Why I Am a Catholic" -- What I Saw In Bethlehem Yesterday (A Photo Essay)

The Church of the Annunciation

we went to The Shepherd’s Field afterwards and saw the grotto in which the shepherds rested when they were not on watch.

Inside the cave, pilgrims venerated the site where the Christ, the one who came into the world, made his literal advent.

Awed Silence

The church where Jesus’s cousin, the greatest of all of those born of women, arrived six months before He did.

There was no crowd when we paid homage to St. John the Baptist. Nevertheless, he is praying for us all now. Thanks be to God.

All pictures and comments courtesy of Frank Weathers at Why I Am Catholic.

[onyx]

I’d love to visit the Holy site.

[RoosterRedux]

You are praying to the dead!

Isaiah 8:19...

And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Leviticus 19:31

“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

[A CA Guy]

Wow, just wonderful.

[Coleus]

[annalex]

Thank you.

It is impossible to love Jesus and not venerate His Blessed Mother.

[defconw]

Thanks for the pictures. Cool!

[Mariamante]

Gorgeous pictures!!!!!