Inside Greece #01
Join Fr. Roderick on an audio tour of the ancient city of Athens. This first episode is part one of our introduction to the city.
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Fr. Roderick
Fr. Roderick, a priest from the Netherlands, is the founder and CEO of the Star Quest Production Network and the host and producer of The Daily Breakfast, Catholic Insider and many other shows on www.sqpn.com.7 Responses to “Inside Greece #01”
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are these going to show up on the CI feed as well?
and thanks of course
Not immediately, so you might want to subscribe to this feed first.
This is great, Fr. Roderick! Looking forward to the future episodes of Inside Greece as well as other audio tours.
Excellent 1st episode of Inside Greece! I look forward to future soundseeing tour episodes! Keep up the great work, Fr. Roderick!
Fr. Roderick, thank you for this awesome podcast! I am really tempted to book a ticket and fly to Athens tomorrow!
You mentioned that in a church in Athens, you saw an icon of the dormition of Virgin Mary, where at the top of it, Jesus seems to be holding a baby girl. From what I understand, this means after Mary’s dormition (or assumption), she is totally in the loving embrace of her divine son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Isn’t this beautiful and sweet?
Fr. Roderick, You were describing the icon of the Dormition of Mary at one point. You were wondering what Jesus is holding? I believe it’s Mary’s soul.
The colours you were describing are symbolic too: Mary is wearing read with a blue robe: red is the earthly and blue the heavenly. So Mary is always wearing a red dress, indicating she is of earthly origin who has received the heavenly (indicated by the blue robes).
Jesus is usually dressed the other way around: wearing blue robes with a red overcoat: of heavenly origin, who took on the earthly.
Here’s the picture of an icon in our parish house of the Dormition.
The word “trapeza” means bank so your guess was correct. “Eladha” is Greece so it must’ve been some Bank of Greece.