Comments on: Meet Me in Rome in May 2007 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mario Filippa http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1461285 Mario Filippa Sun, 10 May 2009 15:39:42 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-1461285 Ooops! I realise I'm only a couple of years late! Too bad! Ignore my previous comment. Ooops! I realise I’m only a couple of years late! Too bad! Ignore my previous comment.

]]> By: Mario Filippa http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1461283 Mario Filippa Sun, 10 May 2009 15:38:28 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-1461283 I'm a priest in Rome and very happy to hear about your pilgrimage. I guess you are more than well taken care of, but if there is anything in which I may help, please contact me. Welcome (again) to my city! I’m a priest in Rome and very happy to hear about your pilgrimage. I guess you are more than well taken care of, but if there is anything in which I may help, please contact me.
Welcome (again) to my city!

]]> By: larry gahan http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-5082 larry gahan Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:44:50 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-5082 Is there any chance that the Rome pilgrimage could include the Scavi tour. Is there any chance that the Rome pilgrimage could include the Scavi tour.

]]> By: Mike Aquilina http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-3037 Mike Aquilina Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:52:33 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-3037 This from a scholar friend, on the location of the hotel: "It is, in fact, right near where I lived many, many years ago. It's a very nice residential area and convenient to the downtown (esp. St. Peter's because you're on that side of the Tiber). And you're spitting distance from Ponte Milvio!" Sleeping near the Milvian Bridge, where Constantine won his victory! How cool is that? This from a scholar friend, on the location of the hotel: “It is, in fact, right near where I lived many, many years ago. It’s a very nice residential area and convenient to the downtown (esp. St. Peter’s because you’re on that side of the Tiber). And you’re spitting distance from Ponte Milvio!” Sleeping near the Milvian Bridge, where Constantine won his victory! How cool is that?

]]> By: Fr Keyes http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Fr Keyes Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:27:51 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2882 You are going pretty awfully close to a few Gasparian sites. Would you be interested in adding another saint to the tour? And who is chanting the masses for you? You are going pretty awfully close to a few Gasparian sites. Would you be interested in adding another saint to the tour? And who is chanting the masses for you?

]]> By: Mike Aquilina http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2861 Mike Aquilina Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:48:21 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2861 Lynne, Counting everyone (Scott, Kimberly, me, etc.), our max is 100 people. That fills two buses, but it's still fairly intimate over the course of a week. Everyone gets to know everyone else. We don't like to use more than two buses, as then it begins to get impersonal -- and also unwieldy, trying to stay together in Roman traffic. Lynne,
Counting everyone (Scott, Kimberly, me, etc.), our max is 100 people. That fills two buses, but it’s still fairly intimate over the course of a week. Everyone gets to know everyone else. We don’t like to use more than two buses, as then it begins to get impersonal — and also unwieldy, trying to stay together in Roman traffic.

]]> By: Lynne http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2860 Lynne Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:39:22 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2860 What's the maximum number of people on the trip? What’s the maximum number of people on the trip?

]]> By: Mike Aquilina http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2858 Mike Aquilina Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:35:59 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2858 One of our resident Rome experts adds this comment: "we will be picked up from the hotel and take buses from place to place in the city. There is no extensive walking and no public transport in our itinerary. The distance between us and our sites is practically no distance for the buses. Also, our daily Masses will be in the churches on our tour, never in the hotel. So we won't be going back and forth." One of our resident Rome experts adds this comment: “we will be picked up from the hotel and take buses from place to place in the city. There is no extensive walking and no public transport in our itinerary. The distance between us and our sites is practically no distance for the buses. Also, our daily Masses will be in the churches on our tour, never in the hotel. So we won’t be going back and forth.”

]]> By: Mike Aquilina http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2826 Mike Aquilina Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:32:36 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2826 Not to worry. This is the third tour we've done with Wendt, and they've all gone off perfectly. I spent about as much time on the bus as I needed to recharge my battery anyway — no more than that. We use the bus time, too, as a sort of class time, giving background on the sites we're about to visit and the ruins we're passing. In any event, I've forwarded your note to our Rome experts, and I'll let you know what they say. Thanks for bringing this up. Not to worry. This is the third tour we’ve done with Wendt, and they’ve all gone off perfectly. I spent about as much time on the bus as I needed to recharge my battery anyway — no more than that. We use the bus time, too, as a sort of class time, giving background on the sites we’re about to visit and the ruins we’re passing. In any event, I’ve forwarded your note to our Rome experts, and I’ll let you know what they say. Thanks for bringing this up.

]]> By: Mark http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-2820 Mark Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:07:11 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/30/meet-me-in-rome-in-may-2007/#comment-2820 Mike, that hotel is way north of the ancient city. Would we be spending the majority of our time having been deposited by bus into the sites? I mean, hopefully there would be minimal time when we were physically at the hotel, primarily for sleep and seminars? Daily Mass in the schedule at the churches, not in the hotel? Sorry to sound so picky, just trying to get a better feel for the environment intended... Mike, that hotel is way north of the ancient city. Would we be spending the majority of our time having been deposited by bus into the sites? I mean, hopefully there would be minimal time when we were physically at the hotel, primarily for sleep and seminars?

Daily Mass in the schedule at the churches, not in the hotel?

Sorry to sound so picky, just trying to get a better feel for the environment intended…

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