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Cruise Day 14: Blessing of Items, Toasts, Farewells and Departure
A sad evening and morning know our pilgrimage has come to an end, but also joyful in all that we have done and shared together.
We arrived back at the Novotel Athens Hotel from Corinth, and Fr. James blessed all of the religious items, and then we had a lovely Greek dinner and Okan led a toast with the wine glasses raised for a wonderful trip and traveling with lovely Catholic people.
The next morning we all said goodbye, shared a lot of joy and farewells, and we watched the bus drive away as they’re heading to the Athens airport to fly home after a most magnificent pilgrimage. Again we had not one complaint but 1000 compliments.
Cruise Day 13: Corinth
Two videos below: 1) Our day in Corinth; 2) My talk on “The Erastus Sone of Corinth
4:00 AM Cruise arrived in Athens (Piraeus)
06:30 AM Breakfast aboard the ship
07:30 AM Disembarked from the ship and boarded our buses
08:00 AM Drove along the beautiful coastal road to Corinth with a stop to use restrooms and walk across the 4 mile canal cut through the isthmus between Achaia and Greece, connecting the Aegean and Ionian Seas.
Celebrated outdoor Mass at the Bema (Judgment Seat) before our guided tour of Ancient Corinth where St.Paul lived for 18 months and to whom he wrote two epistles. Steve Ray, gave one of his favorite talks at the Erastus stone and why we can trust the Bible. This site in Corinth is missed by almost all other pilgrimage groups.
We had a Greek lunch at Perama Restaurant. A quick stop at the “ double-quote1 Temple of Apollo store” for people to buy last minute icons and things from Greece. We prayed the rosary on the way back to Athens. Farewell dinner back in Athens at Novotel Athens Hotel and overnight. Leaving for airport tomorrow morning.
The dinner and the blessing of religious items and some other farewell aspects will be in Video 14 tomorrow.
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