Pilgrims travel from all over the world to Jerusalem, and have done always and the first point of call is the place where Jesus body lay, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most Holy place in Christianity. In 570AD a pilgrim called Peacenza placed a bronze lamp at the head of where Jesus body had laid. It burned there day and night and we took a blessing from it and then put it back. Holy places, sacred places to me are places where people of faith go consistently to pray, to touch, to see, to have an encounter. I stood at the slab of stone in this church where it is said marks the spot where the women attended to Jesus after he was taken off the cross. Is that so? perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't but what was a certainty was that for pilgrims such as Peacenza , myself and millions of others, this was a place where prayers have been descending to God, for centuries and that makes it a Holy, sacred place. Where do you go consistently to pray, to see, to touch and to have an encounter.? Where ever that is for you, that to will be a place of holiness and sacredness for you thus the value of a prayer desk, a special chair, the same spot in the garden. Its those places that we meet God and are blessed and like Peacenza we take a blessing from that and then put it back.
The place where Jesus body lay.Anne, servant of the Lord.
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