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Stations of the Cross

3/27/2013

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Several dozen parishioners prayed the Way of the Cross on Friday evening, March 22. The Stations of the Cross are an ancient devotion arising in Jerusalem during Christianity's first centuries, when pilgrims to the Holy Land desired to walk the way Jesus walked. In the city of Rome, Catholics processed from one parish church to the other, remembering some event from Christ's passion at each of the 14 parishes of that city.

In the Middle Ages, the Franciscan friars encouraged every church to make it possible for all parishioners to combine a spiritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem and a spiritual pilgrimage to Rome by putting up 14 pictures or crosses representing the 14 "station churches" of Rome.

Human life is a pilgrimage, our true homeland is in heaven. May the coming Holy Week help prepare us for eternity.

Fr. Bob

[Here is one version of the history of the Stations: LINK]

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