Pilgrimage to Rome: Behind the Green Door
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What was it like to be a Christian in the early days of Christianity? Journey with Dr. Edward Sri in this special episode as he takes a pilgrimage through the beautiful Basilica of San Clemente in Rome. Hidden behind a simple green door, this basilica conceals holy places of the 12th, 4th, and 1st centuries.
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“We are not asked merely to call ourselves Christians; we are asked to be Christians through our deeds.” -St. Ignatius of Antioch
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:14.2 | What was it like to be a Christian in the very first century, in that first generation |
| 0:19.0 | right after the apostles? What did Christianity look like? What did people believe? How did |
| 0:23.1 | they live? How did they worship? And how did they deal with persecution? How did they even |
| 0:27.7 | gather to celebrate the Eucharist? Well, I'm Edward Sree, and this week I'm coming to you |
| 0:32.2 | from the beautiful Rome Italy. I'm in Rome where I'm leading a pilgrimage group, and today |
| 0:37.4 | we got to go visit one of my favorite sacred sites. It's one of those places where you come |
| 0:42.5 | in contact with that early pristine Christian way of life. And in fact, we got to go down into |
| 0:49.1 | the excavations, down to the very first century level of Rome. And you start to be able to have |
| 0:54.8 | a picture in your mind of what it would have been like to be a Christian in that very early |
| 0:59.4 | period. Today, in this special edition of the All Things Catholic Podcast, I want to bring you |
| 1:04.3 | with us on the streets of Rome as we were preparing to enter into this sacred space and give you |
| 1:09.2 | a chance to kind of be a fly on the wall and be a part of our pilgrimage, if you will. But first, |
| 1:14.7 | I want to ask you this, have you ever wanted to go on pilgrimage? Have you been longing to |
| 1:21.6 | walk the streets of Rome and be on a pilgrimage where you can walk with the apostles and the |
| 1:26.9 | martyrs and the popes of the early church? Have you been maybe just desiring to be able to do |
| 1:32.4 | international travel again after two years of all these lockdowns and restrictions? Well, |
| 1:36.4 | I want to tell you, we've had an amazing, unique, really once in a lifetime opportunity here in |
| 1:42.4 | Rome. Italy again is open to people of all backgrounds, whether you're vaccinated, non-vaccinated, |
| 1:48.2 | in fact, on this very pilgrimage, we have some people that are vaccinated, some that are not |
| 1:51.0 | vaccinated. And it's been easy. Everyone's able to access everything. And what's most amazing is |
| 1:56.8 | there's no crowds. There's just no crowds. And we could just walk right into St. Peter's square. |
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