Mary, The New Gate To Jerusalem…Pray the Rosary

Gate of Heaven

BEAD CHAPLET FOR PRAYING REVELATIONS

A powerful meditation and prayer dialogue with Revelations 22:1-20 with responses. This New Testament book is very prophetic for this new time of grace.
composed by Margot Carter-Blair

GATE of HEAVEN PRAYER

MEDITATION

It gives us great hope in our future as Children of the Light. Regardless of how many years we have left on this earth, and those who are suffering for or walking with those with a terminal illness, reading these passages below helps us set our hearts toward the New Jerusalem.

It may be prayed with or without the chaplet.

~ MEDITATION ~

On the medallion, pray opening prayers
then meditate on each of the following
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GLORY BE
OUR FATHER
HAIL MARY
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1 V: Then the angel showed me (John) the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
R: IN MY HEART I SEE THE RIVER OF LIFE,
RISING FROM THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB,
FLOWING CRYSTAL-CLEAR…
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2 V: down the middle of its street. On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations.
R: I SEE THE TREE OF LIFE PRODUCING FRUIT TWELVE TIMES A YEAR,
ONCE EACH MONTH, THE LEAVES SERVING AS MEDICINE FOR THE NATIONS.
YOU ALONE HAVE DONE THIS.
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3 V: Nothing accursed will be found there anymore. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
R: I BELIEVE YOU WILL ABOLISH THE CURSE OF DESTRUCTION,
THAT THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB ARE IN THE CITY.
I, YOUR SERVANT WILL WORSHIP YOU.
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4 V: They will look upon his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
R: I WILL SEE YOU FACE TO FACE. YOUR NAME WILL BE ON MY FOREHEAD.
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5 V: Night will be no more, nor will they need light from lamp or sun, for the Lord God shall give them light, and they shall reign forever and ever.
R: I WILL NOT NEED A LAMP OR THE SUN, FOR YOU, LORD WLL BE MY LIGHT.
I SHALL REIGN WITH YOU FOREVER AND EVER.
~ PRAYER ~
Pray the Hail Mary on each of the twelve stars
of the crown - then meditate on each verse below
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HAIL MARY
6 V: And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true, and the Lord, the God of prophetic spirits, sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.”
R: I BELIEVE THESE ARE YOUR WORDS AND THAT THEY ARE TRUE AND IT WILL HAPPEN SOON.
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HAIL MARY
7 V: “Behold, I am coming soon.” Blessed is the one who keeps the prophetic message of this book.
R: LORD HELP ME KEEP YOUR MESSAGE IN MY HEART- TO RECEIVE YOUR BLESSING.
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HAIL MARY
8 V: It is I, John, who heard and saw these things, and when I heard and saw them I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me.
R: LORD, BEFORE YOUR LIVING WORD, I BOW.
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HAIL MARY
9 V: But he said to me, “Don’t! I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brothers the prophets and of those who keep the message of this book. Worship God.”
R: THANK YOU FOR ANGELS, WHO LEAD US TO YOU AND KEEP YOUR LIVING WORD ALIVE.
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HAIL MARY
10 V: Then he said to me, “Do not seal up the prophetic words of this book, for the appointed time is near.
R: GIVE MET HE GRACE TO KEEP YOUR PROPHETIC WORDS ALIVE.
REMIND ME, THAT THE APPOINTED TIME IS NEAR.
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HAIL MARY
11 V: Let the wicked still act wickedly, and the filthy still be filthy. The righteous must still do right, and the holy still be holy.
R: ” GIVE ME GRACE TO DISCERN GOOD AND EVIL. TO BE WHOLE, ALL YOU MADE ME TO BE.
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HAIL MARY
12 V: “Behold, I am coming soon. I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds.
R: MY REWARD IS WITH YOU, YOU WILL REPAY ME AS MY DEEDS DESERVE.
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HAIL MARY
13 V: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
R: I BELIEVE YOU ARE THE ALPHA AND OMEGA. THE FIRST AND LAST;
THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
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HAIL MARY
14 V: Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city through its gates.
R: FORGIVE ME, LORD, WASH MY ROBES CLEAN SO I MAY FEED ON THE TREE OF LIFE
AND BE WELCOME TO ENTER THE GATES OF YOUR CITY.
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HAIL MARY
15 V: Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.
R: TEACH ME HOW TO PRAY FOR OTHERS, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN YOU,
WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME.
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HAIL MARY
16 V: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.”
R: I BELIEVE YOU ARE THE ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF DAVID, THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR.
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HAIL MARY
17 V: The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let the hearer say, “Come.” Let the one who thirsts come forward, and the one who wants it receive the gift of life-giving water.
R: COME LORD JESUS, COME. I AM THIRSTY.
I WANT TO RECEIVE YOUR GIFT OF LIFE-GIVING WATER AND LEAD OTHERS TO YOU.
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GLORY BE
(response to 18-20): GIVE ME THE GRACE NEVER TO ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR WORD.
IT IS COMPLETE AS IT IS.
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COME LORD JESUS, COME
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COME LORD JESUS, COME
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COME LORD JESUS, COME
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AMEN

From: the Rosary Workshop
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Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls

There are eight (nine) gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls.

Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls

The first of each of the alternate names is the Hebrew version of the name. Other alternate names are traditional Arabic, Christian, or Jewish names.

Next to Jaffa Gate is a gap in the wall, originally a filled-in moat, which is the main route into the Old City and is usually called “the Jaffa Gate.” There is also another opening next to the Dung Gate, and the original Roman gates (one large gate flanked by a small gate on each side) can be seen below street level at the Damascus Gate.
There is also another series of blocked gates called the Huldah Gates, accessible from the Southern Wall Excavations. Dating from the Herodian period, these sets of gates (one single, one double, and one triple) were used by pilgrims coming to the Second Temple and were within the city walls until Crusader times. The gates lead to a series of tunnels beneath the Temple Mount. Because of the large crowds of people that thronged the Temple during the pilgrimage festival, one gate was used to enter the Temple compound and the other to exit it. One exception was mourners, who would use the opposite route. There are many more gates to the Temple Mount within the walls of the Old City.

The Jaffa Gate

The Jaffa Gate
The Jaffa Gate is a stone portal in the historic walls of Jerusalem’s Old City; it is one of eight gates in Jerusalem’s Old City walls.
The Jaffa gate opens to a road, Jaffa Street that leads Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In ancient times, that road lead to the port city of Jaffa, which is now just along the southern edge of Tel Aviv.
On the Old City side of the Jaffa Gate is a small square between the Christian and Armenian Quarters. The Christian Quarter is to the north, on the left, and the Armenian Quarter is to the South, on the right. Straight ahead an Arab ’shuq’ (market) runs due east along a narrow street that leads to Muslim Quarters. The Jewish Quarter is accessed by a number of streets and alleyways running off the gate square.
Running along the high city walls just to the south of the Gate is The Citadel of Jerusalem, also referred to as the “Tower of David”, a notable Jerusalem landmark that dates back to antiquity. The current tower was built during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
When German Kaiser Wilhelm I visited Jerusalem, the Turkish authorities created a gap in the city’s wall, in order to allow the visitor to enter the city without dismpounting his horse. The act was a symbol of friendship between the two empires. In 1917, British general Edmund Allenby entered the Old CIty through this gate, giving a peech at the nearby Tower of David. During Israel’s War of Independence, Israeli forces fought hard to connect the Jewish Quarter of the Old City with western Jerusalem by controlling the Jaffa Gate. With a Jordanian victory in 1948, Israeli forces were not able to regain control of the gate until the Six Day War in 1967.
As the westernmost of the gates, it is heavily used by pedestrians and vehicles, and the plaza in front of the gate has been expanded to connect with new residential developments outside the gate.

The Zion Gate

Zion Gate

The Zion Gate (Hebrew: Shaar Zion) is one of eight gates built into the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built for Suleiman the Magnificent in 1540 CE.
Located in the South of the Old City and facing towards Mount Zion and Hebron, it leads to the Armenian and Jewish Quarters.
In 1948 During the War of Independence, the Palmach unsuccessfully battled for control of the Jewish quarter at the entrance of the Zion gate, this left the stones surrounding the gate pockmarked by weapons fire and riddled with bullet holes which can still be seen today. Both pedestrians and vehicles presently use the gate, though navigation is made awkward by a very narrow L-shaped turn inside the gate.
Zion Gate is also known as David’s Gate (Arabic: Bab el-Daoud; Hebrew: Shaar David), because Mount Zion is believed by some to be the burial place of King David.

The Dung Gate

Old picture of Dung Gate

The Dung Gate (also known as Sha’ar Ha’ashpot, Gate of Silwan, Mograbi Gate) is one of the gates in the walls of the old city of Jerusalem.
The gate is situated at the southern wall of the old city, south of the Temple Mount.
The gate is the closest to the Western Wall and is a main passage for vehicles.
Name
The name Sha’ar Ha’ashpot appears in the Book of Jeremiah:3:13-14. It is probably named after the residue and ash that was taken from the Jewish Temple into the Kidron Valley.
The name Mograbi gate (Bab El Magharbeh) is called after the Moors’ history in the area.

The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate or Sha’ar Harachamim

This article is about the gate in Jerusalem. For other uses see Golden Gate (disambiguation).
The Golden Gate is the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls. It was probably built in the 520s CE, as part of Justinian I’s building program in Jerusalem, on top of the ruins of an earlier gate in the wall. An alternate theory holds that it was built in the later part of the 7th century by Byzantine artisans employed by the Umayyad khalifs.
In Christian literature, the gate is referred as the Golden Gate, but in Arabic it is known as the Gate of Eternal Life. Jews used to pray for mercy at the gate, hence the name Sha’ar Harachamim, the Gate of Mercy.
The gate is located in the middle of the eastern side of the Temple Mount. The portal in this position was believed to have been used for ritual purposes in biblical times.
In Jewish tradition this is the gate through which Messiah will enter Jerusalem. It was sealed off in 1541 by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I, allegedly to prevent the Messiah’s entrance. The Muslims also built a cemetery in front of the gate, allegedly in the belief that the precursor to the Messiah, Elijah, would not be able to pass through since he is a Kohen.
The Golden Gate is one of the few sealed gates in the Jerusalem city walls, along with the Huldah Gates, and a small Biblical and Crusader-era postern located several stories above ground on the southern side of the eastern wall.!

The Lions’ Gate

The Lion’s Gate, Jerusalem - Old City

The Lion’s Gate is located in the Old City Walls of Jerusalem and is one of seven Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls.
During the Six Day War, Israeli Special Forces entered the Old City through this gate.

Herod’s Gate

This gate is called Herod’s Gate because Herod Antipas, the son of King Herod the Great, used to live nearby. Herod Antipas was famous in the New Testament as the king before whom Christ was brought by Pontius Pilate.
Herod’s Gate is also known as the Gate of Flowers, because it has flowery ornamentation on the façade.
The Crusaders who took Jerusalem in 1099 first breached the walls near Herod’s Gate. The Gate has an L-shape which is supposed to slow down invaders trying to enter the city. Damascus Gate
The Damascus Gate (also known as Shechem Gate or Nablus Gate; Bab-al-Amud, ‘Gate of Columns’) is an important gate in the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. It was built in 1542 by the late Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent.
The gate has two towers each equipped with machicolations. It is located at the start of the Arab bazaar and marketplace. In contrast to the Jaffa Gate, where the stairs rise towards the gate, in the Damascus Gate, the stairs descend towards the gate. In 1972, right-wing activist Meir Kahane proposed that mezuzot be attached to the gate, to secure the Jewish claim to the gate. After repeated protests from the Arab residents, the Israeli government refused to consider Kahane’s proposal. Today, only three of the Old City’s gates have mezuzot attached.
While the proper English name of the gate is ‘Damascus Gate’, in Hebrew it is called Sha’ar Shechem, meaning ‘Nablus Gate’. Israeli media therefore frequently refer to the gate as ‘Nablus Gate’ in English-language publications as well.

The New Gate

The New Gate (Arabic: Bab al-Jedid; Hebrew” HaSha’ar HaChadash) is the most recently built gate in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls built in 1887 to provide easier access to the Christian Quarter. It is also called the Gate of Hammid after the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The gate is located in the north-western part of the wall and faces north.
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when Jordan captured East Jerusalem (which includes the Old City of Jerusalem) it was sealed off. It was reopened again in 1967 after Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.