All language subtitles for Holy Week Where it Happened.en

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dear pilgrims

my name is rami while you're unable to

be with me today

because of the pandemic allow me to take

you through this virtual tour

into jerusalem to follow the footsteps

of our lord

through the holy week starting from

mount of olives

with his triumphal entry ending with his

resurrection

from the church of the holy sepulchre

rejoice greatly daughter zion

shout daughter jerusalem

see your king comes to you righteous and

victorious

lowly and riding on a donkey on a call

the fall of your donkey

foreign

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during the second temple period lots of

the jewish communities that lived in the

area of the galilee

they used to travel annually to

jerusalem in order to participate in the

different holidays

and the most important of them would be

the feast of the passover

the journey that they made was quite a

difficult journey

four days long one full of challenges

and dangers

yet they made it because they loved the

city of jerusalem

jesus as a child would have joined his

family

coming every year to jerusalem and

whenever they traveled

they had to go through different towns

and villages like for example

jericho that we always hear about or

bethany which is the town

of jesus friend lazarus who later on

will be raising from the death

every time jesus came over here he would

cross from mount of olives

as a child maybe whenever he looked at

the city

deep inside his heart he felt something

he felt the anxiety going on because

deep inside him

he knows the secret of this place he

knows that

later on when he grows up

he would come to jerusalem but that time

that he will come

in he will not come as a visitor but he

will be coming

as the king to many who will be

witnessing

his entrance to the holy city riding on

a donkey

the messiah the king that will bring the

salvation

for the whole house in jerusalem

after the three years ministry of jesus

and the galilee

he made his last journey to jerusalem

hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims

were also doing

that same journey on his way he stopped

by bethany

he raised his friend lazarus from the

dead

and hundreds of these pilgrims who are

doing the same journey have witnessed

that miracle and plenty of them

have seen in this design of jesus as the

coming messiah

so they wanted to follow him in order to

witness his triumphal

entry into the city of jerusalem

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on that day his feet will stand on the

mount of olives

east of jerusalem and the mount of

olives

will be split into two from east to west

forming a great valley

with half of the mountain moving north

and have

moving south

jesus will ride the donkey that his

disciples will fetch from bethphage

exactly as he told them which is the

same place where the priests

will be fetching their paschal lamps

jesus would show that he is the real

lamb

which takes away the sins of the world

prefigured

the paschal lambs

as we're approaching the palm sunday

walk which is commemorating the trump

adventure of jesus

and that is the beginning of the holy

week for centuries

people from all around the world have

been gathering in here

and especially on the palm sunday in

order to walk down these steps

and follow that path which is the same

way that our lord followed

as a humble king riding on his donkey

fulfilling

all the prophecies of the old days

entering into the

eternal city the city of his father

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the prince of peace is riding his donkey

humbly entering into the city the crowds

are all around him

they are following him they are cheering

they are happy they are joyful

tears in their eyes but definitely the

pharisees

they didn't like this they didn't like

to see jesus entering as a king

rebuke your disciples they say jesus

answered

i tell you if they were to keep silent

the stones will cry out

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as he approached the city jesus wept

over it

the church of the dominance flavored

which means the weeping of the lord

was built to commemorate the place where

jesus wept over jerusalem

his weeping shows us his humanity

he was thinking as a human not as god

simply he couldn't hide his feelings

he wept because of his knowledge of the

punishment of jerusalem

he wept because of his unending desire

for the peace of jerusalem he wept

because of his unabandoned love for the

people of jerusalem

he was weeping over the tragedy of a

lost opportunity

the israelites that assembled in

jerusalem for the passover

missed the opportunity to be saved from

both earthly and

eternal destruction they were visited by

their savior

but they did not know it god in flesh

was standing right before their eyes

and they missed it instead of receiving

him

they killed him

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after the day of his triumphal entry

jesus would arrive into the temple where

he found that the courts are full of the

corrupt money changers

he began overturning their tables and

clearing the temple saying

the scriptures declare my temple will be

a house of prayer

but you have turned it into adam of

thieves

coming back to mount of olives he would

pray with his disciples

until the night came where he will be

gathering

them on mount zion in order to prepare

for the last supper

jesus sent peter and john saying go and

make preparations for us to eat the

passover

where do you want us to go they said

enter into the city and you will find a

man carrying a water jar

follow him and he will lead you into the

place

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this is where our lord will gather his

disciples around the table

where we will be offering his blood and

his flesh

to become the new lamb the lamb that

will be sacrificed

for the sins of a humanity during that

passover meal

jesus will be so humble to kneel down

and wash the feet of his disciples

teaching them how to become the servants

rather than being the masters

this is where he pointed that he will be

betrayed

and he will be as well denied

after jesus and his disciples left the

area of mount zion

they came through the kidron valley

which is the

valley that separates mount zion from

mount of olives

they came through that valley all the

way into this garden

which is called the garden of gethsemane

and the meaning of the word gethsemane

is the oil press in the gospel of john

chapter 18

the gospel tells us that jesus and these

disciples they were quite very familiar

with this place they've been here before

they prayed together before in this

place but

what was special about that thursday

night that simply

the master who came with his disciples

was different

the disciples they couldn't tell at the

very first beginning that jesus is a bit

weak they couldn't tell that jesus is

different

than how he's usually looking like

he's thinking as a man once again jesus

as we all know

had his two natures his humanity and his

divinity

on that thursday night jesus was simply

thinking

and living his humanity he was afraid

he knows that this is his last night

he knows that in between these olive

trees

one of his disciples who thought that

that was a friend

would come and stab him in the back he

would bring the soldiers

and they will arrest him so jesus

stepped aside from his disciples knelt

down on his knees

on the rock and prayed for his father

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he withdrew about the stones through

beyond them

knelt down and prayed father

if you are willing take this cup from me

yet not my will but use me donald

an angel from heaven appeared to him and

strengthened him

and being in anguish he prayed more

earnestly

and his sweat was like drops of blood

falling to the ground when he rose from

prayer and went back to the disciples

he found them asleep exhausted from

sorrow

why are you sleeping he asked them get

up

and pray so that you will not fall into

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temptation

the sins of the word crushed hard on

jesus

with such weight of sorrow that blood

squeezed out of him like oil coming out

from a crushed olive

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when jesus rose from prayer he went back

to his disciples

to find them sleeping he was

disappointed

he was distressed to find them sleeping

because simply they were their friends

he brought them into here to stand next

to him

once again jesus was living and thinking

at that moment as a full human

he wanted his friends to be next to him

he wanted them to support him

because he knows that this is his last

night maybe they didn't know that maybe

it wasn't very obvious to them

but he knew it and he wanted them he

needed them next to him

from a distance he could see judas

coming with the soldiers

with the torches in their hand they are

coming to arrest him

he didn't run away he stayed in here he

stayed in the garden

once again jesus could have easily

chosen

a secret place to go to if kid went into

a different cave into the other side of

the mountain he could went

easily into bethany to the house of his

friend lazarus he could pray there

but he wanted to be in here because

he knew that judas was coming to him

and he wanted to surrender to judas

because simply surrendering to judas

that means his mission is accomplished

that means he's just surrendered to the

will

of his father

at this point i'm at the lower side of

mount zion

and just behind me is the kidron valley

that connects all the way to mount of

olives

which is the garden of gethsemane at the

slosh of mount of olives

two thousand years ago imagine our lord

jesus christ

after he finished the last supper with

his disciples

on the upper side of mount zion jesus

would have stepped

on these very same steps

he walked down on these steps as a free

man

with his disciples going through the

kidron valley all the way to the garden

of gethsemane

prayed got arrested then he was dragged

back

up these steps as a prisoner

to stand in front of the high priest

before the day of his crucifixion

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after they arrested jesus in the garden

of gethsemane

he was brought into the area of mount

zion through the kidron valley

where first he stood in front of anas

then

they brought him to the house of the

high priest caliphas

who was the head of the sanhedrin at

that time which was the jewish religious

quote

the members of the sanhedrin they badly

wanted jesus dead

even though they were all the religious

people the ones who've controlled the

temple the ones

who were teaching the crowd the ones who

were teaching the people the ones who

were preparing the people for the coming

of the messiah

but once the messiah came they

immediately rejected him

because what they expected from a

messiah at that time

especially for those people who ran the

sanhedrin

and ran the temple they wanted a messiah

that will make them more powerful

they wanted a messiah that will make

them more wealthy

but who came to them was a messiah

riding on a donkey

who came to them was a humble man who

came to them was somebody who told them

your wealth is up in heaven next to your

father not on earth

so simply after years and years and

years of teaching about the messiah and

preparing the people

about the coming of the messiah they

rejected him

peter was following jesus he was in the

courtyard

the one that we're standing in and once

he came over here

there was the soldiers one of the

servants one of the women

warming themselves next to the fire she

looked at him

you're one of them you're one of the

galileans

she can easily tell that peter is one of

them

maybe the way he dressed maybe his

accent

maybe the fear that he got in his heart

and in his eyes

he said well i'm not he was asked

another time

i don't know him the third time he was

asked also once again

i don't know him just as he was speaking

the rooster croaked the lord turned and

looked straight at peter

then peter remembered the word the lord

has spoken to him

before the rooster crows today he will

disown me three times

and he went outside and wept bitterly

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but i o lord cry out to you with my

morning prayer i wait upon you

why oh lord you reject me why

hide from me your face

i'm afflicted and in agony from my youth

i'm dazed with the berlin of your dream

your furries have swept over me

your terrors have cut me off

they encompass me like water all the day

on all sides they close and upon me

companion and neighbor you have taken

from me

my only friend is darkness

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this is the dungeon where our lord

stayed the night of his arrest

among these cold wars jesus was lowered

down from the

opening in the ceiling this is where he

was kept as a prisoner

in complete darkness i just simply can't

imagine the feeling

the feeling of jesus in here among all

these cold

walls that we have around us when he

knew that

when the daylight comes out he's going

to be crucified

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oh

after jesus spent the night in the

dungeon and when they break came

the chief priests and the elders of the

people they plotted against jesus to put

him to death

they tied him and they brought him to

stand in front of the governor

in this place in this area this is where

the praetorium was the governor's house

this is where pilate took up jesus and

they asked him

are you the king of the jews

for centuries pilgrims have been coming

to jerusalem to follow the footsteps of

our lord they've been coming to this

very same place where i'm standing now

to follow the steps of jesus to calvary

next to us is the sanctuary of the

flagellation which was built by the

franciscans to host the first two

stations

it jesus condemned to death and jesus is

carrying his cross

after jesus was condemned to death he

was forced to carry

the cross when we try to imagine that

cross that jesus carried

it's not the cross that is perfectly

made at the cartwhen t-shirt

it was a quite a very heavy wooden beam

that was

placed on his shoulders placing that

beam on his shoulders made the wounds

re-open

after all of the flagellation after all

of the torturing

after all of what he went through simply

that cross would add more to the pain

that cross will make all the wounds

reopen

he needs to carry it it's a sign of

accumulation

because everyone who was to be crucified

must carry his cross and walk through

the whole city

in front of everyone in order to be

humiliated

until he reached to the place of the

crucifixion and that was

outside the city the high place

that we call calvary or golgotha

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jesus is carrying his cross he's walking

around the streets of jerusalem

it's a very heavy one jesus is getting

tired

when he reached into this place he fell

down

under his cross the third station of the

cross jesus falls down under

the cross for the first time and the

minute he fell down

the only person who dared to step

out of the crowds and come to see him

was his mother our blessed mother

is the one who came out of the crowds

she wasn't afraid

of the soldiers she wasn't afraid of the

priests or the elders of the people

that was her son and she wanted to stand

next to him

after jesus met his mother he rose up

he carried his cross again and he

continued his journey toward calvary

and coming around this corner it's

obvious that he can't make it

he's about to start going up the hill

continuing his journey

to calvary a stranger was called simon

of cyrene

he's around in here he was forced to

help jesus to carry

his cross and continue his journey all

the way up the hill till they reach

calvary

simon just helped jesus carrying his

cross

for a second jesus rests in here

then he continues his journey to calvary

under the sign of the sixth station we

have this pillar that got the name

veronica on it which is the traditional

name

of that lady that got the courage

to step out between the crowds and help

jesus by wiping his face

she wiped the blood from his face and

when she looked back at that piece of

cloth that she was holding in her hands

she saw that the face of jesus was

printed on it

and this is from where the word veronica

came on

the true image vero iconia

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our lord is continuing his journey he's

still carrying his heavy cross

he's going all the way up the hill

station number seven behind me

is marking the place where jesus fell

down under the cross

for the second time this crossover here

is marking station number eight jesus

meets the woman of jerusalem

while he's continuing his journey he's

been followed by the woman

who are mourning him he looked at them

and he told them daughters of jerusalem

do not weep for me but wait for your

sins

and for your children

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the ninth station is marking the place

where jesus will be falling down under

his cross for the third time

he's almost there he can easily see the

place of the crucifixion

he can see calvary but this time maybe

he fell down

under the cross not because of the heavy

cross he's carrying

but maybe because of the heavy burdens

that he's carrying

which is the sins of the world

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our lord have reached his final

destination

he reached the place where he will be

crucified calvary

golgotha the hill that was overlooking

the city

the altar behind me is marking station

number 10

which stands for jesus being stripped

from his garments

when the soldier stripped jesus from his

clothes they stripped his dignity

but stripping his dignity off that means

jesus have just

clothed us with his love because all of

what he went through

is for us the 10th station

sits in the most holy place on earth

which is the church of the holy

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sepulchre

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the 11th station where jesus was nailed

to the cross

he was stretched on that cross that he

carried

for a long distance and the soul just

came and nailed him with huge

nails seven inches long

deep inside his bones he was in full

pain

yet he made it because he loved us

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station number 12 jesus dies on the

cross

after they nailed him they raised the

cross

with the sign the king of the jews on it

when the hour came jesus said

eli eli lama bhaktani

that is my god my god why have you

forsaken me

jesus shouted again with a loud voice

and he gave up his spirit

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the thirteenth station the brother of

jesus prepared

for the barrier when evening came joseph

of aramathia

who was a wealthy man that the secret

disciple and believer of jesus

he went to pilate asking to take down

the body of jesus

when they took the body down from the

cross they laid it

on this stone where they prepared it for

the burial

in the new tomb that joseph of martha

prepared for himself

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they laid the body of our lord in this

tomb

they rolled the heavy stone in front of

it to seal it

and they all went home what a sad day

was for many

the word tomb is such a

heavy sad one because whenever we

say it it always reminds us with our

beloved ones

that have passed away but this tomb

is different this is the holy tomb of

our lord

this is an empty tomb when people come

in here they rejoice

because they remember the resurrection

of our lord

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jesus christ resurrection from the dead

validated

everything that he said ended during his

life

but most importantly this was the proof

that he is really

the son of god no human being has

ever come back to life after being dead

for three days

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the resurrection of our lord is the rock

solid foundation

of our faith and we should ponder it not

just at easter

but throughout the year because it is

the new

life that was gifted to us by our lord

jesus christ

from the church of the holy sepulchre

which is the holiest

spot on earth from the area where the

empty tomb is

that is left for us to remember the

resurrection of our lord i would love to

wish you

a blessed safe and happy easter to all

of you

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