ATHENS' TRANSFORMATION CONTINUED

We stayed longer at the Pantheon and visited the Acropolis Museum. We also saw many olive trees with green and silvery leaves.
We ate at STEERS where we met a Filipino, Simeon, from Batangas, together with his sweetheart, a cook in a big family in Athens.
We had a chance to visit the Liberation Square and the Plaka, a place similar but bigger than Baclaran in Manila where one could buy anything from the ridiculous to the sublime.
I bought a small statuette of Aesculepsius (god of Medicne) and lapis lazuli pendant because I lost recently the one I was using .
At 6:00 p.m. we attended mass at St . Dennis Cathedral concelebrated by 16 priests and the Bishop. It was special in the sense that the Bishop of the Orthodox Church joined the celebration. The mass was said in Greek while songs were in Latin, a very different experience.
That night, we tasted a Greek dinner.
SIDE COMMENTS…
The “miracles” of the pilgrimage were beginning to take place. Not only the sparkling transformation of Athen from a very unimpressive city on our arrival into an astonishing and historically loaded place to go but also the more interesting transformation of us, the pilgrims ourselves.
Some who looked very sophisticated during our orientation were turning out to be humble and down-to-earth themselves.
The chance for us to be able to attend a mass said in Greek and with the presence of the Orthodox Bishop was something I shall cherish in my memory.
But the biggest miracle was the effect on our “Silver Honeymoon”. Our love for each other as husband and wife was getting stronger everyday. Even our religious orientation was getting deeper and more meaningful.