Fire of Love: The Passion of the Martyrs
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's easy for a Christian to feel like an outsider in today's secular age. Dr. Sri draws our attention to the early Christian martyrs and reveals how they can inspire us in our walk with the Lord. We learn that the secret of these martyrs wasn't necessarily their extraordinary strength, but rather, it was their passionate love for Christ.
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"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:14.7 | Something very strange happened when I brought my family to Pompeii, Italy. |
| 0:19.3 | We have been on pilgrimage vacation in Italy, visiting many beautiful sacred sites, beautiful |
| 0:23.9 | churches, beautiful art, and historical places like Pompeii, that ancient city that was destroyed |
| 0:29.7 | 2,000 years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city, and my kids had studied |
| 0:35.5 | this place, and they were excited to go see it, and we're walking around the excavations, |
| 0:39.6 | and I happened to notice a young Italian couple that was looking over at us, and they followed |
| 0:45.2 | us a little bit, and they kept looking over at me, and finally they came up, and the man |
| 0:50.2 | came right up to me and said, oh, can I meet you? Could we take a picture with your family? |
| 0:55.2 | And he's got a big smile, and I said, oh, sure, and I round up the kids, we take a picture |
| 0:58.6 | with him, and I'm thinking this is kind of cool. There's a fan all the way out here in Italy. |
| 1:03.8 | Maybe they know me from EWTN, or from my podcast, and it's kind of cool, but I quickly realized |
| 1:10.2 | he wasn't taking a picture because he was a fan. He then started asking questions like, so are |
| 1:16.6 | these all your kids, and he's counting them up, eight kids? Are these all yours? I said, yes, |
| 1:22.1 | he said, and you had them together. You, and this woman, your wife, and you're married, I said, |
| 1:27.9 | yes, we're married, and together you, you had eight kids, and he just couldn't believe it, |
| 1:33.6 | and he starts smiling, and even laughing a little bit, and he says, wow, we've never seen anything |
| 1:38.7 | like this. Eight kids from, from, from just you two. That's amazing. Could we get another picture |
| 1:43.9 | with you? And I realized he wasn't a fan. He wanted to take a picture because he just thought we |
| 1:49.5 | were like a freak show at the circus, and a strange specimen in this modern world. They just |
| 1:55.5 | wanted to get a picture of us. Have you ever had that feeling where like, you just feel like you |
| 2:00.6 | just don't fit in with the people around you? You don't fit in in this crazy secular world. |
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