Are You Thirsting for God?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this special Jubilee Year episode, Dr. Edward Sri visits the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, home to relics of St. Clement and St. Ignatius of Antioch. Surrounded by sacred beauty, he reflects on the inner deserts of the soul and how God meets us there with his love. Drawing from Scripture, sacred art, and prophecy, Dr. Sri offers a powerful meditation on suffering and grace. He explains what it means to thirst for God.
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Your heart is thirsting for God to come in to guide you, to shed some light on where your life is going.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Sree and welcome to All Things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the special edition of All Things Catholic. I'm your host, Edward Sree. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's episode was recorded while on pilgrimage in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee year. It was recorded |
| 0:23.3 | on location at the Basilica of San Clemente. Do you have areas of your life where you feel |
| 0:29.6 | like it's arid, it's dry? You feel like I'm just in the desert here. I'm not sure where I'm going. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm not sure why this is happening. And your heart is |
| 0:38.3 | thirsting for God to come in, to guide you, to shed some light on where your life is going or to |
| 0:44.5 | fill that need, that ache in your heart. What I want to do here is we are on location in Rome |
| 0:50.3 | inside the great basilica of San Clemente, where we're right next to the very relics of |
| 0:56.8 | St. Clement and St. Ignatius of Antioch, these first century saints and martyrs. In the very |
| 1:04.0 | first generation, right after the apostles, they gave their lives up as a witness, a heroic |
| 1:10.5 | witness to the faith. Great leaders, Ignatius |
| 1:13.0 | of Antioch, a great bishop in the early church, martyred right here in Rome. Clement of Rome was one of the |
| 1:18.0 | early popes. You have Peter, Linus, Cletus, Clement. So one of the earliest popes in the line of succession. |
| 1:25.4 | There's an amazing place to be historically. But what I want to do today |
| 1:28.8 | is take a look at this magnificent art that we see above the main altar in this church, this beautiful |
| 1:35.3 | art in the Aps mosaic. This was Pope Benedict's favorite mosaic in all of Rome. He wrote a beautiful |
| 1:41.5 | reflection about it. But what I want to do is I want to connect the ache that we have in our hearts, |
| 1:46.0 | the longing, the thirsting we have for God to come in into those dry desert areas of our souls |
| 1:52.0 | with the beautiful art we're looking at and the beautiful biblical tradition, |
| 1:56.0 | the prophecies and the rituals of the Old Testament centered around the temple, and Jesus in his own ministry and what he did in the temple |
| 2:04.6 | that speaks to our hearts today. |
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