Happy Year 2768 AUC!

[Irenaeus]

Today, April 21, 2015 AD, is also the year 2768 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita), the Anniversary of the Founding of the City of Rome.

A very happy day to us all who are the successors of all those events which culminated in the arrival of the faith in that Great City!

 

[Rhamiel]

I thought Rome was older? it is amazing how young some stuff is, like we advanced SO much since the time of Christ, it is really amazing

 

[Sword of the Lord]

I don't get why you're celebrating this. Rome was a devilish pagan entity full of the riches of this world. Rome as in the RCC =/= to Rome the pagan empire.

 

[football5680]

I don't get why you're celebrating this. Rome was a devilish pagan entity full of the riches of this world. Rome as in the RCC =/= to Rome the pagan empire.

Christianity conquered the Roman Empire and God used it as his instrument to spread the truth throughout the world. I don't think anybody would have a problem celebrating the Birthday of Saint Paul just because he started out as a persecutor of Christians. The Empire eventually became a force for good.

 

[Tallguy88]

I thought Rome was older? it is amazing how young some stuff is, like we advanced SO much since the time of Christ, it is really amazing

It's the traditional date they gave themselves. Archeology has shown the site of Rome to have been inhabited for far longer though.

 

[Irenaeus]

Right. The date basically comes from Varro and a few other extrapolations. I'm not saying we celebrate the Roman Empire/Republic/Kingdom because they were that, but moreso because Rome is the city which was destined to be the site of the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul and the Mother Church of Christendom.

Even if we want to say they were pagan and corrupt, I take the point of GK Chesterton in The Everlasting Man: that Rome and Greece were glorious, although certainly under the influence of evil forces. However, consider what a world would have been like if say, Carthage won the Punic Wars and annihilated Rome.

 

[Tallguy88]

I don't get why you're celebrating this. Rome was a devilish pagan entity full of the riches of this world. Rome as in the RCC =/= to Rome the pagan empire.

I like to celebrate the good aspects of ancient Roman culture. Gravitas, pietas, familias, et cetera. Plus it's fun to learn bits of classical Latin.

 

[bill5]

I think it's far more fun to eat Italian food. I think I'll "celebrate" with a pizza tonight.

 

[Irenaeus]

Italian food sounds like a good idea!!!