Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. On their calendar, today was the great Feast of the Ascension for Orthodox and Eastern Christians. .  Jerusalem's Chapel of the Asc...

. Happy Ascension Day to the Catholics and other Christians celebrating it today.  This is the ancient Chapel of the Ascension on...

. The incense was ready for today's Feast of the Ascension. These are my pictures from 2012  but it is the same ritual every ye...

. Ascension Day was my first time to visit the Russian Monastery of the Ascension. (I showed you some of the graves there last Tuesday.) ...

. Welcome to the Russian Orthodox Convent on the Mount of Olives. Thursday, Ascension Day, was my first time to visit this welcoming plac...

. As I started telling you yesterday, Thursday was Ascension Day for the Orthodox churches. It was my first time to see the very old Cha...

. It was a day of much incense on the Mount of Olives this morning! Greek Orthodox, Russian, Armenian, Coptic, and Syrian clergymen were a...