Starting Tuesday 15th January 2019 at 7.15 pm in St. Catherine's we shall be having a video presentation one week followed by a time of prayer the following week until the start of Lent. For more information call Andrew Steven on 01269 826101.
THE PROGRAMME UNTIL LENT 2019
The Life and Ministry of the Messiah - a DVD presentation by Ray Vander Laan
Tuesday 15th January No Greater Love Mount of Beatitudes and Korazin Tuesday 22nd January Prayer and Fellowship
Tuesday 5th February The Rabbi Gamla and the Zealots
Tuesday 12th February Language of culture Sepphoris
Tuesday 19th February The Way of John the Baptist Machaerus *****
Tuesday 26th February Prayer and Fellowship
Tuesday March 5th SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE PARTY 2.00 to 4.00 pm Cost £3.00
***** John the Baptist lost his life because he dared to criticise Herod Antipas for marrying his brother's wife Herodias. Imprisoned in the mountain fortress of Machaerus, in present day Jordan, John sent two of his disciples to Jesus to ask, "Are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another?" (Matthew 11 v2) Did John really doubt that Jesus was the Messiah or what did he mean by his question?
Cisterns were sometimes used as prisons (see Jeremiah 38 v6 - 13) and it is possible that this one at Machaerus was used to imprison John the Baptist..