A Week in Poland - Our 20th Wedding Anniversary Pilgrimage
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our marriage began with JP2 blessing it in Rome on our honeymoon. So for our 20th wedding anniversary last week, we wanted to do a special marriage pilgrimage to Krakow and walk in the footsteps of this great saint.
In this episode, Beth and Edward Sri discuss the importance of couples getting time away and share from their experiences at the sites of JP2's youth and years a priest and bishop in Krakow where he poured his life into university students, battled the atheistic Communists, and guided young couples in their marriages.
They also share their experiences at Auschwitz and the shrine to Our Lady of Czestochowa as well as inside stories from locals who lived through Communist Poland and saw their country transformed through the interventions of Pope John Paul II.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:19.1 | Hi and welcome back to the show. Today I have with me a very special guest my dear wife Beth is back on the show with us here. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi everybody. Welcome back. It's been a while since we've had you. Yeah. We've been busy. It's been a busy spring, busy family life, graduating a |
| 0:36.7 | daughter from high school, many other things going on, but Beth and I just got back |
| 0:41.0 | from a 20th anniversary special trip that we just did. |
| 0:47.2 | We just got back doing a pilgrimage to crack off to Poland to walk in the footsteps of St. John Paul II to walk in the footsteps of divine |
| 0:56.2 | mercy and St Faustina there and we just wanted to take this time in the podcast |
| 1:01.6 | just we thought we'd just share a little bit with you |
| 1:04.7 | just about some of our experiences just in the last week so but first of all maybe |
| 1:08.9 | just a little background on this so we've been married 20 years and very grateful for our marriage and our family |
| 1:15.8 | with many blessings, but one of the things we realized is we were just approaching the days |
| 1:20.8 | before this trip is that we have not gotten away like this since like |
| 1:25.8 | 2002 where it was just us there's no baby with us and it was more than just like |
| 1:31.5 | like just a weekend trip you, so where we were away for a whole week and it was just us and it was it was awesome |
| 1:39.3 | Yes, so very good to get away and I know that there are many families that listen to this |
| 1:47.4 | podcast, many parents and spouses and some of them are younger and they've got younger kids. |
| 1:54.0 | Some of them are as old as we are, older and all. |
| 1:56.0 | But I think it's just hard when you've got a full family life, |
| 2:00.0 | it's hard to get away, but I can't recommend it enough I'm so grateful that we |
| 2:04.9 | did this for for this trip this year we were blessed we were we've been talking about |
| 2:10.4 | it with all the travel I do I was able I do, I was able to use |
| 2:13.8 | 30,000 miles on United Airlines one-way ticket to go to crack off. It was |
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