Ukrainian pilgrims to take part in Great Blessing of the water on Jordan River

On 14 January a pilgrim group from various cities of Ukraine went to Israel to prayerfully see in the holiday of Epiphany on the Holy Land. It is reported by the Information and Education Department of the UOC.

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.