{"id":2194,"date":"2019-10-23T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2020-01-27T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:06:04","slug":"sacred-spaces-in-a-land-of-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2019\/10\/sacred-spaces-in-a-land-of-strife\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Spaces in a Land of Strife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday, Oct 23 ~ Lisa Dixon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we visited two majestic and historic houses of worship, and two human rights monitoring institutions. It\u2019s unfortunate that the former does not prevent the necessity of the latter, but that is the irony of Palestine\/Israel. One of the most holy spots in the world (to three great religions) is also the one full of so much strife. On an upbeat note, one inspiring place we visited was Jacob\u2019s Well Church in Nablus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_7629-1-e1571897875948-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_7629-1-e1571897875948-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_7629-1-e1571897875948-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_7629-1-e1571897875948.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Jacob&#8217;s Well Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well. (Being embarrassingly ignorant of the Bible, I actually know this story from hearing the Peter Paul and Mary song about it when I was younger.) This is the most authentic holy site in Palestine because the well is still here, and operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-e1571896661514.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-e1571896661514.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-e1571896661514-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, churches have been built over this site (and subsequently destroyed) over and over through the centuries. The current one was completed (by Yasser Arafat) in 1998 after a century of construction. The inspiring part is that the current priest came in 1975 and oversaw the construction. He made the mosaics that are all over the church. (Being a quilter I love handcrafts and tiles.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-1-e1571896565812.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-1-e1571896565812.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image2-1-e1571896565812-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Father Justinus at Jacob&#8217;s Well Church in Nablus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Church has since been attacked 15 times by settlers, but has been repaired and is still intact. This priest has made it his life\u2019s work to make sure that at least this one church survives these senseless human acts of cruelty that are so common in this country. And he\u2019s also quite an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image3.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image3-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Jacob&#8217;s Well mosaic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, Oct 23 ~ Lisa Dixon Today we visited two majestic and historic houses of worship, and two human rights monitoring institutions. It\u2019s unfortunate that the former does not prevent the necessity of the latter, but that is the irony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2019\/10\/sacred-spaces-in-a-land-of-strife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-october-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}