You searched for holy land | Midwest Theological Forum https://theologicalforum.org/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:12:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://theologicalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-MTF-Site-Icon-Burgundy-32x32.png You searched for holy land | Midwest Theological Forum https://theologicalforum.org/ 32 32 Rolando Montes de Oca https://theologicalforum.org/authors/rolando-montes-de-oca/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:32:42 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/?post_type=authors&p=263871 Rolando Montes de Oca, born in Camagüey, Cuba (1981), graduated in Institutional Social Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in 2019. Regular Collaborator with secular and Church publications in Cuba.

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Rolando Montes de Oca, born in Camagüey, Cuba (1981), graduated in Institutional Social Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in 2019. Regular Collaborator with secular and Church publications in Cuba.

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]]> The Holy Land : An Encounter with Jesus Christ Video Series (DVD) https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-video-series-dvd/ https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-video-series-dvd/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:27 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/categories/uncategorized/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-video-series-dvd/ This DVD includes a twelve-part video series filmed in the Holy Land that brings to life the main events and holy sites of the life of Jesus Christ. Through spiritual reflections and images, viewers are transported to the Holy Land to learn about the events that took place at these sites, how to pray there, [...]

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]]> This DVD includes a twelve-part video series filmed in the Holy Land that brings to life the main events and holy sites of the life of Jesus Christ.

Through spiritual reflections and images, viewers are transported to the Holy Land to learn about the events that took place at these sites, how to pray there, and how to follow and enter more deeply into the life of Jesus, preparing them for their own encounter with Christ.

Travelers making a spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land will find these videos helpful for preparing in advance to visit the sites as well as to relive and share the pilgrimage experience when they return back home. (Subtitles in English and Spanish)

View all Holy Land Pilgrim Kit products click here

For additional information, please visit: www.holy-land.org

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]]> https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-video-series-dvd/feed/ 0 The Holy Land : An Encounter with Jesus Christ Pilgrim Handbook https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-pilgrim-handbook/ https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-pilgrim-handbook/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:27 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/categories/uncategorized/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-pilgrim-handbook/ The Pilgrim Handbook is an essential guide for making a pilgrimage and praying at the holy sites. The handbook features historical information, Gospel readings, spiritual meditations, reflection questions, prayers, and photographs for the main holy sites to help you have a profound encounter with Christ before, during, and after the pilgrimage. As you visit each [...]

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]]> The Pilgrim Handbook is an essential guide for making a pilgrimage and praying at the holy sites. The handbook features historical information, Gospel readings, spiritual meditations, reflection questions, prayers, and photographs for the main holy sites to help you have a profound encounter with Christ before, during, and after the pilgrimage.

As you visit each holy site, the handbook will assist in preparing you for the graces of your pilgrimage:

  • A remembrance of the landmarks: What did you see? What happened in this place? What physical details will you remember? What will you tell your family and friends about this place?
  • Inspirations and Intentions: What did you hear and learn that inspired you? Whom and what did you pray for?
  • Resolutions: What is God asking of you? From what you learned in this sacred place, draw conclusions that will help you in your spiritual life.

At the end of your pilgrimage, the handbook will be a keepsake of your memories of the profound personal experience of meeting Jesus Christ in the same places where his first disciples did over 2000 years ago. And, your pilgrimage will become an unforgettable journey that will help to deepen and nourish your relationship with God for the rest of your life.

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]]> https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-pilgrim-handbook/feed/ 0 The Holy Land : An Encounter with Jesus Christ Missalette https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-missalette/ https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-missalette/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:26 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/categories/uncategorized/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-missalette/ The Missalette is designed specifically for use at select shrines and locations throughout the Holy Land. It includes Votive Masses, the Order of Mass, hymns, prayers, and blessings that will assist the pilgrim when visiting the popular sites in the Holy Land. The liturgical prayers, including those specific to each shrine, are useful whether participating [...]

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]]> The Missalette is designed specifically for use at select shrines and locations throughout the Holy Land. It includes Votive Masses, the Order of Mass, hymns, prayers, and blessings that will assist the pilgrim when visiting the popular sites in the Holy Land. The liturgical prayers, including those specific to each shrine, are useful whether participating in Holy Mass, spending time in prayer at that shrine, or later in reflective, private meditation.

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]]> https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-holy-land-an-encounter-with-jesus-christ-missalette/feed/ 0 Wanting Jesus Alone to Shine https://theologicalforum.org/books/wanting-jesus-alone-to-shine/ https://theologicalforum.org/books/wanting-jesus-alone-to-shine/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:14 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/categories/uncategorized/wanting-jesus-alone-to-shine/ Illustrated Biography of St. Josemaria Escriva, the Founder of Opus Dei

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]]> The St. Josemaria Institute is pleased to announce the book release of Wanting Jesus Alone to Shine: Illustrated Biography of St. Josemaria Escriva, the Founder of Opus Dei.

Wanting Jesus Alone to Shine is a biography of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, illustrated with more than 200 photos, maps, infographics and autograph texts. The authors, Jesús Gil and Enrique Muñiz, offer a biography in which the images allow readers to enter into the life of Saint Josemaria: not only to learn about his experiences intellectually, but also to share in some of the feelings that accompanied these experiences.

Wanting Jesus Alone to Shine is based on the book written by Jose Miguel Cejas and designed by Jose Luis Saura on the occasion of the beatification of Josemaria Escriva in 1992.  Gil and Muñiz – who collaborated in the beatification book – have revised and updated the text, and have added numerous content, so that it is presented as a new experience of the life of St. Josemaria.

About the Authors

Jesús Gil (Logroño, 1976) is a priest of the Opus Dei prelature and a doctor in Spiritual Theology. Previously, he studied Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Navarra and worked as a journalist for Diario de Burgos and La Voz de Galicia. He has also published In the Footprints of Our Faith: A Journey Through the Holy Land.

Enrique Muñiz (Madrid, 1962) has a degree in Hispanic Philology from Complutense, works at the Beta Films Foundation and has been dedicated to linguistic consulting and corporate communication tasks for more than thirty years.

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]]> https://theologicalforum.org/books/wanting-jesus-alone-to-shine/feed/ 0 Life of Jesus https://theologicalforum.org/books/life-of-jesus/ https://theologicalforum.org/books/life-of-jesus/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:07 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/categories/uncategorized/life-of-jesus/ Life of Jesus reflects on Jesus Christ not as a myth or an abstract idea but as God-made man, who lived in first-century Palestine in a specific religious and social context. The details of his earthly life, the Jewish culture in which he grew up, the places he visited, and the roads he traveled for [...]

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]]> Life of Jesus reflects on Jesus Christ not as a myth or an abstract idea but as God-made man, who lived in first-century Palestine in a specific religious and social context. The details of his earthly life, the Jewish culture in which he grew up, the places he visited, and the roads he traveled for a little over thirty years can today be indicated with greater precision. The Evangelists placed great emphasis on narrating the events and words of Our Lord accurately, and these help the reader to better understand and love the figure of Jesus Christ as we travel with him.

Life of Jesus will take you on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Jesus Christ as an onlooker, as if you were there in the Holy Land. Though a historical figure, Jesus surpasses history. He is the long-awaited Messiah, the Son of God. Thus, we cannot approach Jesus of Nazareth in the same way we would any other great figure of the past. The Person of Christ unfolds page-by-page in this book, pointing the way for each of us through his words, actions, Passion, Death, and the importance of his message for human existence. The language, archaeological findings, institutions, and customs explained in this book help us to better understand the life and times of Jesus Christ. Over forty maps and charts assist the reader in placing him- or herself in the synagogues, towns, homes, fishing villages, rivers, seas, and much of the Holy Land as it appeared two millennia ago.

This book is ideal for a classroom supplement, retreats, spiritual reading, and private meditation.

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]]> https://theologicalforum.org/books/life-of-jesus/feed/ 0 Blessed Álvaro del Portillo https://theologicalforum.org/authors/blessed-alvaro-del-portillo/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:33:52 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/?page_id=608 Born on March 11, 1914 in Madrid, Spain, Alvaro del Portillo was Saint Josemaria Escriva's faithful co-worker and his first successor at the head of Opus Dei. As an exemplary priest, he spent his whole life in the service of the Church, including work on various commissions at the Second Vatican Council. He was [...]

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Born on March 11, 1914 in Madrid, Spain, Alvaro del Portillo was Saint Josemaria Escriva’s faithful co-worker and his first successor at the head of Opus Dei. As an exemplary priest, he spent his whole life in the service of the Church, including work on various commissions at the Second Vatican Council. He was ordained a bishop in 1991 by Pope St. John Paul II. He died in Rome on March 23, 1994 a few hours after returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His Cause for Canonization was opened in Rome in 2004 and he was beatified in Madrid on September 27, 2014.

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]]> Mike Aquilina https://theologicalforum.org/authors/mike-aquilina/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:29:58 +0000 https://theologicalforum.org/?page_id=598 Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than forty books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion. He is co-host, with Scott Hahn, of eight series that air on EWTN. For many years he also appeared as a regular panelist on "The Weekly Roman Observer," broadcast by Catholic Familyland Network. He is a frequent [...]

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Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than forty books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion. He is co-host, with Scott Hahn, of eight series that air on EWTN. For many years he also appeared as a regular panelist on “The Weekly Roman Observer,” broadcast by Catholic Familyland Network. He is a frequent guest on Catholic radio and appears weekly on EWTN’s “Sonrise Morning Show.” He has co-led pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, and has keynoted major events, such as the Conference on Catholic Social Thought in Nassau, Long Island, the Aquinas Forum at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, and the annual retreat at Little Portion Monastery. He keynoted the Society of St. John Chrysostom’s celebration of the 1,600th anniversary of their patron’s passing to heaven and has spoken to Congressional Catholic Staff at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mike is also a poet and song lyricist. His poems have been translated into Polish and Spanish and have appeared in First Things, Dappled Things, Plains Poetry Journal, Catholic Digest, and elsewhere. His songs have been recorded by Grammy Award-winner Dion DiMucci.

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