Holy Week in Rome ... I’m jealous, ping.
Instrumental in my reversion to the Church.
Instrumental in my reversion to the Church.
Glad to hear he is well enough to travel, following his recent illness.
Prayers up!
Actually it’s not all that great unless you are lucky enough to score some passes to the special events that get you a decent view. We got passes to the Good Friday mass at St. Peters, which was wonderful, but the actual outside Easter Sunday mass was so crowded we couldn’t see a thing. Dittos for the Via Crusis, the crowds are huge.
If you are in Rome for an extended holiday around that time see if you can get into the Vatican office (the one with the Swiss Guard in front) and tell the Pope’s secretary that this is your first visit to Rome as newlyweds. Even if you’ve been married for 20 years, if it’s your first visit to Rome as a married couple that counts. You will get some souvenirs and a pass for an audience with the Pope. No, you won’t get to go into some small room and have a conversation with His Holiness but it will get you in the same row that he uses to walk up to the altar after the Popemobile drives him up and down the rows that they make so he can greet the thousands who will be in the square. Then, if you are very lucky, you may get to be one of the people he speaks to, pats on the head or blesses.
When the Pope is walking down the aisle there will be a group of men in black suits that look like Secret Service agents surrounding him. Some of them are actual bodyguards but most are photographers, snapping pictures of everything in sight. Get a business card from one of them if you can. It will give you the address of a studio that will have pictures by the thousands posted in the windows. If you find one with you in it order prints of your special event. We have pictures of John Paul II patting us on the heads and blessing a handful of Rosary beads that she was holding out to him. A beautiful moment from our visit to Rome.
If you aren't fussy about where you stay, you can find good value around Termini Station where each floor of a building is run as a separate hotel. We think entrepreneurship is dead or at least discouraged in Europe. I was always surprised to find little, shops, bars, restaurants tucked into tiny spaces doing fierce business. It gladdened my heart.
Love the Hahn’s
If I had any opportunity to travel, I’d spend the Holy Week is the Holy place, Israel...I don’t think Jesus was ever in Rome...
Google “White House Easter” message. You won’t get any hits except for GWB and Clinton.
I’m happy for the Hahns. I hope they have an absolutely lovely time.
And now, back to planning Easter music. I wish we were doing it in Spanish!
I always wondered why Peter left Israel and went to Rome. I found out why. Paul had gone to Rome...the center of the Gentile community at the time, the POWER of the world.
He wasn't doing very well in evangelizeing as he had never known or met Jesus, aside from his amazing vision. The Romans weren't buying Paul's evangelization so he got Peter to join him there. That obviously did the trick.
The Romans were going to crucify him as they did Jesus and Peter asked to crucified upside down as to be crucified JUST like Jesus was not acceptable for him. He thought that he didn't deserve the honor of dying JUST like Jesus.
THIS kind of history is part of the Apostolic Tradition that sola scripture Protestants decline.
Scott Hahn is a WONderful speaker. He has been inspirational to ME, a cradle Catholic. How blessed we Catholics are to have him in the fold.
-—She hopes that Americans visiting Rome will “catch a vision as to what a Catholic church should look like physically.”-—
Amen! Fortunately, the tide appears to be turning.
It’s best that we forget modern churches, and speak of them no longer.
Thanks for posting this story...