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Article: O Jerusalem: a journalist becomes a pilgrim. (Catholic pilgrim in Jerusalem, Israel)
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- March 22, 1996
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I went up to Jerusalem in January as a journalist, but quickly became a pilgrim. I write "up" because the psalms refer to the city that way. Once there, more than 2,300 feet above the Mediterranean and even further above the Dead Sea, you realize just how precise the psalms are.
I stayed at a hospice off Nablus Road near the famed Ecole Biblique. This in turn was only two blocks from Jerusalem's Old City, the ancient walled capital that is now an island encircled by modern East and West Jerusalem. Before the 1967 War, the area had been partitioned between Jordan and Israel.
I found myself drawn to the Old City each morning for the liturgy. Early ...