Pope Francis Blesses Tabernacle of New Holy Land Spirituality Center

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Pope Francisvisited the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center yesterday and blessed a tabernacle to be housed in the chapel of a new spirituality center in the town of Magdala.

The Magdala Center project, sponsored by the Legionaries of Christ, comprises a spirituality center being built on the shore of the Lake of Galilee. It also includes the Duc in Altum [Beyond the Deep] church, a hotel for pilgrims and an archaeological park.

Legionary Father Juan Solana, initiator of the Magdala project, told the Pope that the center looks to women in the Gospel for inspiration. The project aimsto honor Mary Magdalene and the other women in the Gospel.

Father Solana said he showed the Pope photos of the church, and explained its significance. "I also told him that I had learned a lot from the comments he had made about his grandmother, he said.The Pope replied: What would the Church be without women?

Francis has often recalled fond memories of his grandmother. In a radio interview last November, he said it was "my grandmother who taught me to pray. She left a deep spiritual imprint in me and used to tell me stories about the saints.

The archeological discoveries of this center unite us to both Jews and Christians," Father Solana explained. "The Magdala Center is called to foster reflection on the role of women in the Church and in society.

He said that on May 28th, the first phase of the construction will begin, comprising the church and the archeological park. "We still have to find the funds to build the hotel for pilgrims and other installations," he said.

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, will preside at the Mass at which the spirituality center will be dedicated.

Those who made the construction of the Magdala Center possible, including 120 persons, friends and benefactors who have, were present for the Pope's blessing of the tabernacle.

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Countdown: German astronaut Alexander Gerst leaves Earth for the ISS

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May 26, 2014: final hours before lift-off

It's getting serious: Alexander Gerst is ready for his trip into space. And it's just hours to go. Everything is ready at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Alex and his team take off in a Soyuz rocket on Wednesday (28.05.2014) at 9.56 pm Central European Summer Time.

The crew will be catapulted into space with 26 million horsepower, costing 300 tons of fuel. It should take them around six hours to reach their goal.

May 23, 2014: 6,000 hours of training

It's been four and a half years since Alex was selected to be an astronaut for the European Space Agency (ESA). In that time he has

gone through 3,000 hours of ESA training, undergone medical exams, participated in PR events and

spent 3,000 hours at the ISS partner countries' training centers in the US, Canada, Russia and Japan.

Gerst has also flown about 400,000 kilometers (249,000 miles), which equals almost 500 flights to the ISS and back.

But that's nothing compared to what awaits him during his real mission. Here's what Alex writes in his blog:

"On board the ISS, we will travel almost double the distance that I have traveled over the last four years - every day! In the space of 24 hours, we'll experience 16 sundowns and sunrises. I can't wait!"

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Trip to space with Leonardo DiCaprio auctioned off for $1 million

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The $1 million price tag benefited AIDS research, but regular tickets for Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceliner sell for $250,000. DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, Angelina Jolie, and Justin Bieber already have reservations. The first commercial flight could happen this year.

As if flying to space weren't exciting and surreal enough on its own, someone just plunked down nearly $1 million to make the trip with movie star Leonardo DiCaprio.

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DiCaprio plans to fly aboard Virgin Galactic's suborbitalSpaceShipTwo space planein 2015. A seat on the same flight with the actor sold for 700,000 euros ($954,000 at current exchange rates) on May 22 at the annual amfAR auction near Cannes, France, which benefits AIDS research,Variety reported.

The 2015 DiCaprio flight is filling up fast; at last year's amfAR auction, three other seats on it sold for a combined $3.8 million. (SpaceShipTwo can accommodate six passengers and two pilots.)

TheSpaceShipTwo spacelineris designed to be carried up to an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) by a mothership named WhiteKnightTwo. After being dropped, the space plane's rocket engine fires up, boosting the vehicle into suborbital space.

Passengers aboard SpaceShipTwo will get to see Earth against the blackness of space and experience a few minutes of weightlessness, Virgin Galactic representatives say.

Regular tickets to ride the commercial spaceliner sell for $250,000, and to date more than 700 people have put down deposits to reserve a seat. DiCaprio is not the only celebrity with plans to fly; actors Ashton Kutcher and Angelina Jolie have booked tickets, as has singer Justin Bieber.

And Virgin Galactic's founder, billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has said he and his family will be aboard the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo.

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Russ Lemmon: Astronaut taking local man's war medals with him to space station

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Ralph Sweitzer, 94, says his great nephew, American astronaut Reid Wiseman, will be taking Sweitzer's Bronze Star and Purple Heart with him to the International Space Station.

Reid Wiseman

Russ Lemmon is a columnist for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. This column reflects his opinion.

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman is taking a pair of war medals with him for his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

They are his great uncles Purple Heart and Bronze Star from World War II.

Wiseman, 38, asked Ralph Sweitzer a 94-year-old Indian River County resident who fought in the Battle of the Bulge if he could take the medals to the space station, saying it would be an honor to do so.

In response, Sweitzer told him he was honored to be asked.

Wiseman will be making the flight aboard a Soyuz spacecraft with Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

The launch for Expedition 40/41 is scheduled for Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Its set for 3:57 p.m. EST and can be seen on NASA TV and the space agencys website, nasa.gov.)

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