Swimming The Tiber?

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As I was in Rome this week I have to ask a question.

Why don’t people just walk over the Ponte San Angelo and walk down via d conliazione?

Swimming The Tiber is pointless. It’s not much of a river to swim. It’s more like a ditch than a river.

It’s probably more stressfull to get the metro during rush hour to Ottaviano and walk down. That’s what I did. :coffeeread:
 
But if you don’t swim the Tiber you don’t get wet! You have to be born again of water (and Spirit). I mean, I guess its okay for candidates if they just cross a bridge, but not the catechumens! Hope that helps. 🙂
 
East_Anglican said:
As I was in Rome this week I have to ask a question.

Why don’t people just walk over the Ponte San Angelo and walk down via d conliazione?

Swimming The Tiber is pointless. It’s not much of a river to swim. It’s more like a ditch than a river.

It’s probably more stressfull to get the metro during rush hour to Ottaviano and walk down. That’s what I did. :coffeeread:
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I was in Rome last October and we took a taxi everywhere. It was quick and cheap.
Please tell me what you got to see and how you felt. I received Mass and the Eucharist at the Vatican. I kneeled at the Tomb of Saint Peter and John Paul II. Can’t get much better than that. did you go to the church of Peter in chains? Did you visit the prison of Peter and Paul? Very emotional for me. The Sistine Chapel was surreal. All the art and history dated from the first centuries onward. Loved the Colisseum, Trevi Fountain, Roman ruins, etc… AND shopping. 😉
 
Luke65 said:
But if you don’t swim the Tiber you don’t get wet! You have to be born again of water (and Spirit). I mean, I guess its okay for candidates if they just cross a bridge, but not the catechumens! Hope that helps. 🙂
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The Israelites never got wet when they crossed The Jordan so why should we get wwet when crossing a river? 🙂
 
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I was in Rome last October and we took a taxi everywhere. It was quick and cheap.
Please tell me what you got to see and how you felt. I received Mass and the Eucharist at the Vatican. I kneeled at the Tomb of Saint Peter and John Paul II. Can’t get much better than that. did you go to the church of Peter in chains? Did you visit the prison of Peter and Paul? Very emotional for me. The Sistine Chapel was surreal. All the art and history dated from the first centuries onward. Loved the Colisseum, Trevi Fountain, Roman ruins, etc… AND shopping. 😉
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I think I was so expectant that The Sistene Chapel didn’t seem that good. My wife fell over in there and we had to go to hospital. That is surreal!
We didn’t get into Saint Peters.

The Church that I was amazed by was San Giavanni in Lepanto. I wasn’t expecting what I saw. I ateneded Mass in two Churches (Didn’t take the sacrament) and what got me was that Italian Roman Catholics are more like English Anglicans than English Roman Catholics. That was surreal too and also very interesting.

We stayed near the Colisseum.
 
East_Anglican said:
I think I was so expectant that The Sistene Chapel didn’t seem that good. My wife fell over in there and we had to go to hospital. That is surreal!
We didn’t get into Saint Peters.

The Church that I was amazed by was San Giavanni in Lepanto. I wasn’t expecting what I saw. I ateneded Mass in two Churches (Didn’t take the sacrament) and what got me was that Italian Roman Catholics are more like English Anglicans than English Roman Catholics. That was surreal too and also very interesting.

We stayed near the Colisseum.
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I am sorry for your fall. That ruined things. The Sistine Chapel to me was breathtaking with it’s history and it’s art over 2,000 years of artifacts. I did think that it took forever to get to that room because of the many art and artifacts.
At Saint Peter’s, they closed the gate on me and my husband because there was a private Bishop’s Mass going on and the room was packed with enough people. Until I used my “I didn’t come all the way from America for nothing routine”…and I approached one of the important men standing there and told him, I mean begged him to let me and my husband in. He saw my eyes tear up and he ended up, not just letting us in (he smuggled us in the back way), but taking us down these spiral steps to see St. Peter’s Tomb and John Paul II in which I knelt respectably. It was surreal that just the three of us were down there. He then took us up a secret passage way and brought us to the Mass in which I received the Eucharist in the Vatican. That was the highlight of my trip, to be privileged to receive Mass at St. Peter’'s, I could of died and been happy right there.
God was with me that day because I was so lucky and Blessed to have done this. The Coliseum was right near St. Peter’s in Chain’s and the work of Michaelangelo’s Moses. Did you see that?
 
East_Anglican said:
As I was in Rome this week I have to ask a question.

Why don’t people just walk over the Ponte San Angelo and walk down via d conliazione?

Swimming The Tiber is pointless. It’s not much of a river to swim. It’s more like a ditch than a river.

It’s probably more stressfull to get the metro during rush hour to Ottaviano and walk down. That’s what I did. :coffeeread:
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Thankfully it’s not much of a river. I don’t care much for swimming in rivers. Give me a lake or a pool.

I love the Thomas A Kempis quote by the way. 👍

God bless
 
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