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Lenten Stations -- Stational Churches - visit each with us during Lent {Catholic Caucus}
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Posted on 02/21/2007 9:44:31 AM PST by Salvation

LENTEN STATIONS

S. Lorenzo in Lucina S. Maria in Domnica, "La Navicella" SS. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Panisperna 

   

LENTEN SEASON STATIONAL CHURCHES
   
Ash Wednesday St. Sabina at the Aventine
Thursday S. Giorgio al Velabro
Friday Ss. Giovanni e Paolo al Celio
Saturday S. Agostino in Campo Marzio
I Sunday of Lent St. John Lateran
   
Monday S. Pietro in Vincoli al Colle Oppio
Tuesday S. Anastasia (S. Teodoro) al Palatino
Wednesday St. Mary Major
Thursday S. Lorenzo in Panisperna
Friday Ss. XII Apostoli al Foro Traiano
Saturday St. Peter in the Vatican
II Sunday of Lent  S. Maria in Domenica alla Navicella
   
Monday  S. Clemente presso il Colosseo
Tuesday S. Balbina all'Aventino
Wednesday S. Cecilia in Trastevere
Thursday S. Maria in Trastevere
Friday S. Vitale in Fovea (via Nazionale)
Saturday Ss. Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano (via Merulana)
III Sunday of Lent S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura
   
Monday  S. Marco al Campidoglio
Tuesday S. Pudenziana al Viminale
Wednesday S. Sisto (SS. Nereo e Achilleo)
Thursday Ss. Cosma e Damiano in Via Sacra (Fori Imperiali)
Friday S. Lorenzo in Lucina
Saturday S. Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano
IV Sunday of Lent S. Croce in Gerusalemme
   
Monday  Ss. Quattro Coronati al Celio
Tuesday S. Lorenzo in Damaso
Wednesday St. Paul outside the Walls
Thursday Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
Friday S. Eusebio all'Esquilino
Saturday S. Nicola in Carcere
V Sunday of Lent  St. Peter in the Vatican
   
Monday  S. Crisogono in Trastevere
Tuesday S. Ciriaco (S. Maria in via Lata al Corso)
Wednesday S. Marcello al Corso
Thursday S. Apollinare in Campo Marzio
Friday S. Stefano al Celio
Saturday S. Giovanni a Porta Latina
   
HOLY WEEK  
Palm Sunday St. John Lateran
Monday S. Prassede all'Esquilino
Tuesday S. Prisca all'Aventino
Wednesday St. Mary Major
Thursday St. John Lateran
Friday S. Croce in Gerusalemme
Saturday St. John Lateran
Easter Sunday St. Mary Major
   
EASTER SEASON   
Monday St. Peter in the Vatican
Tuesday St. Paul outside the Walls
Wednesday S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura
Thursday Ss. XII Apostoli al Foro Traiano
Friday S. Maria ad Martyres in Campo Marzio (Pantheon)
Saturday St. John Lateran
II Easter Sunday (in Albis) S. Pancrazio

  



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from St. Cantius

THURSDAY IN THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT
Station—Sts. Sylvester and Martin

Near this church the penitents used to pass through one of the most infamous of places, near the crossroads of Mercury and the Serbian walls, where there was the merulana necropolis (cemetery). That was where pagan Rome left the bodies of slaves and criminals to rot in the open, until the Christians built a chapel with the aim of venerating the Christian martyrs.
Two weeks from today, the Church will celebrate the mystery of the living and life-giving Bread, the first source of life and health. "For he that eats this Bread shall have life everlasting." "And unless you eat this Bread you shall not have life in you."
Preceded by two stational saints, the first Confessors, who were given public veneration in the Church—St. Sylvester and St. Martin—we will go to God's altar, to the Mystery of Life, to Him who will say also to us:" I say to thee, arise!"
Let us pray: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who are chastised by fasting, may rejoice with holy devotion, and that our earthly affections being weakened, we may, more easily understand the things of heaven. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


121 posted on 03/22/2007 10:03:58 AM PDT by Salvation (?With God all things are possible.?)
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Catholic Culture

The Station is in the church of St. Eusebius, priest of Rome, who suffered for the faith in the Arian persecution under the emperor Constantius.

 


122 posted on 03/23/2007 10:40:40 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Interior of St. Eusebius

Day XXXI. Friday, Week IV.

"Save me, O God, by your power and grant me justice! God, hear my prayer; listen to my plea. (Ps 53:3-4)

Sant'Eusibio. Saint Eusibio was a priest of Rome who was starved to death in 357 by the heretical emperor
Constantius who held that Christ was created so he was neither truly God nor man. Father Eusibio's home became
one of the 25 original churches of Rome. It is a place were the martyrs are celebrated, for from their blood, the
Church is born.

Sant'Eusibio.


123 posted on 03/23/2007 10:42:55 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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from St. Cantius

FRIDAY IN THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT
Station—St. Eusebius

The Roman Martyr-Priest, Eusebius, whom the Arian Emperor Constantius II had imprisoned for seven months in the priest's own home so that he might slowly starve to death, is today our leader to the blessed Christ for whose Divinity Eusebius died and won eternal life.
Two weeks from today, we shall celebrate the Lord's life-giving death—the source of our resurrection and life. Christ's death is the Sacrament of all sacraments. All the Christian mysteries flow from this main-spring: "the mystery of new life" "out of water and the Holy Spirit;" restoring or healing life in the tribunal of God's mercy; the reception of the Bread of Life at the Lord's Table; as well as the great "come forth" on the last day (from our tombs as Lazarus was called from his tomb). These and all other mysteries of our Faith are rooted in the death of the Lamb of God.
Let us pray: O God, who renews the world by Thine ineffable sacraments, grant, we beseech Thee, that Thy Church may profit by Thy eternal institutions, and not be lacking in temporal help. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


124 posted on 03/23/2007 10:45:32 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Today's Station is at St. Nicholas in Prison. It was constructed in the ruins of two temples and the ancient Forum Olitorium, and you can see fragments from them reused in the church. The most important of the temples was the Temple of Piety, built by Acilius Glabrius, consul in 191 B.C. The dedication to St. Nicholas was made by the Greek population in the area.


125 posted on 03/24/2007 12:08:48 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Exterior of St. Nicholas Cancere

Day XXXII. Saturday, Week IV.

"The snares of death overtook me, the ropes of hell tightened around me; in my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice" (Entrance antiphon for today - Ps 17:5-7).

San Nicola in Carcere. This church was built from the ruins of three Roman temples. The central temple was built on the site of the "caritas romana". Supposedly a man was condemned to die of hunger in prison. His daughter, who was nursing at the time, sustained him. (I saw a copy of Caravaggio's painting but, not knowing the story,
had other ideas about what was occurring in the painting.) The church is dedicated to Saint Nicolas, (Santa Claus), as he is the patron of prisoners.

San Nicola in Carcere


126 posted on 03/24/2007 12:13:00 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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from St. Cantius

SATURDAY IN THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT
Station—St. Nicholas in Carcere

This Station is at a church built on the ruins of three pagan temples and consecrated to St. Nicholas. It is called in carcere because in ancient times it had been a dungeon—a prison devoid of light.
Water, food and light are indispensable for the maintenance and up-building of our natural life. Sacred Water, Sacred Food and Sacred Light are indispensable for the maintenance and up-building of our supernatural life.
1. "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he can not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."
2. "Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you shall not have life in you."
3. "I am the Light of the world. He that follows Me walks not in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
Catechumens and Faithful both were deeply impressed while listening to the Gospel of "The Light of the World" read in today's stational church, which is over a dark dungeon. There criminals were held in confinement, deprived of light, liberty and the joys of life. A man in mortal sin walks in darkness. The light of Christ is not in Him. He sits in darkness and in the shadow of death. With God's help, we must free ourselves during the remaining days from all darkness.
St. Nicholas—lead us today to Him, who by Sacred Water has made us His living branches, to Christ Jesus, our Divine Food and Holy Light.
Let us pray: Mercifully compel our rebellious wills and make them subject to Thee, O Lord. We ask this Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


127 posted on 03/24/2007 12:15:47 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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At Rome, the Station is in the basilica of St. Peter. The importance of this Sunday, which never yields to any feast no matter what its solemnity may be, requires that the place for the assembly of the faithful should be in one of the chief sanctuaries of the holy city.

 


128 posted on 03/25/2007 9:25:57 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Interior of the Basilica of St. Peter

Day XXXIII. Sunday, Week V

"Strengthen in faith and love your pilgrim Church on earth; your servant (and my bishop) Pope John Paul II, and all the bishops, with the clergy, and the entire people your son has gained for you" (Eucharistic Prayer III).

San Pietro in Vaticano. Today used to be called Passion Sunday. As we continue our journey to the Easter mysteries it is good to reflect upon the cross, the instrument of our salvation. As a seminarian recently told me, the cross was light just enough for a man to carry and just strong enough to carry a man. Indeed it carried the Savior of the world! As one approaches Saint Peter's, in the midst of Bernini's colonnade, stands the pyramid which once stood watch in the median of Nero's circus (near the present day sacristy) over the crucifixion of Saint Peter. It is crowned with a relic of the true cross and now casts its shadow over us. On the base we read, "Ecce crux Domini fugit partes adversae. Vicit Leo de tribu Iuda." ("Behold the cross of the Lord from which the
adversarial parties flee. The Lion of the tribe of Judea is victorious!")  

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San Pietro in Vaticano

Day XXXIII. Sunday, Week V

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As we leave Saint Peter's, we read, "Christus vincit. Christus regnat. Christus imperat. Christus ab omni malo plebem suam defendat." ("Christ is victorious. Christ reigns. Christ commands. Christ defends his people from all evil.") Today's pictures are of the first vicar of Christ and his successor.

His Holiness John Paul II

129 posted on 03/25/2007 9:31:03 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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from St. Cantius

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
PASSION SUNDAY

Station—St. Peter in the Vatican
Passion Sunday!

The Cross of Christ is veiled, so that we may seek it, and Him who died on it, all the more. The holiest season of the year is at hand, so holy, that "all other seasons of the year prepare us for keeping this one duly and worthily. These present days call for special fidelity seeing that they bring us so near to that sublime mystery of the Divine Mercy, the blessed Passion of Jesus Christ." (from the Divine Office)
With an open mind and a willing heart let us approach the altar to celebrate the Passion Sunday Sacrifice with our High Priest, so that His "body, which shall be delivered for us, and His blood that shall be shed for us" may bestow upon us the promise of eternal inheritance in Christ Jesus Our Lord.
Let us pray: Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies. Teach me to do Thy will. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


130 posted on 03/25/2007 9:33:36 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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The Station, at Rome, is in the church of St. Chrysogonus, one of the most celebrated martyrs of the Church of Rome. His name is inserted in the Canon of the Mass. The church was probably built in the 4th century under Pope Sylvester I.


131 posted on 03/26/2007 8:05:48 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Interior of St. Chrysogonus

Day XXXIV. Monday, Week V.

"Has no one condemned you? The woman answered: No one, Lord. Neither do I condemn you: go and do not sin again" (Communion antiphon for today - Jn 8:12).

San Crisogono. Saint Chrysogonus was a Roman military officer from Northern Italy who was beheaded by the emperor Diocletian (284-305). His body was thrown into the sea but later recovered and buried by the priest Saint Zoilus. A great devotion to him arose among the Greeks and Romans. So much so, he is still remembered in the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I).

One of the 25 original parishes of Rome, the church may have been built in the 4th Century. It has been reconstructed several times. I was struck by this chapel to the Sacred Heart (see photo).

As you may know, the body of John XXIII was recently found to be uncorrupt. In fact, many of the saints earthly remains were preserved from decay (we already saw Pius IX on Day 19 at Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls).

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San Crisogono

Day XXXIV. Monday, Week V.

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In this church is Blessed Anna Maria Taigi. She was born in Siena in 1769. She moved to Rome, married, and bore and raised seven children. She was known for her holiness, her care for the poor and sick, and was considered the perfect model of a Christian wife and mother. She was also a part of the third order of the Most Holy Trinity. She died in 1837 at the age of 68. As you can see from the photo, she too is uncorrupt. In fact, she looked better than many people I've seen alive! Her skin has a rosy glow and her lips are drawn to a beautiful, serene smile. The chapel is filled with a powerful yet delicate scent of roses. Beautiful. Blessed Anna Maria, pray for us!

Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, uncorrupt


132 posted on 03/26/2007 8:11:20 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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MONDAY IN THE FIFTH (PASSION) WEEK OF LENT
Station—St. Chrysogonus

We are branches of Christ, the Vine. As such, we share in His life, share in His joys, and must share also in His sufferings, and thus—as the Apostle so boldly put it—make up in our own body what is yet wanting in the sufferings of Christ, the Head. This we shall do gladly in these holy Passion days. Our mortifications, our self-discipline, our temptations, our trials from within and from without, all our sufferings, we will unite with Christ's Blessed Passion. They will then be lifted out of their own smallness and will share in the greatness and efficacy of His sufferings. He will suffer in us and we in Him.
We humbly ask St. Chrysogonus, in whose Roman home we observe today's mysteries of redemption, that he would accompany us to "the Lord of Hosts, the King of Glory."
Let us pray: O God, hear my prayer. Give ear to the words of my mouth. Save me, O Lord, by Thy name and in Thy power deliver me. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


133 posted on 03/26/2007 8:13:21 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Catholic Culture

The Station in Rome was formerly the church of the martyr St. Cyriacus, and as such it is still given in the Roman missal; but this holy sanctuary having been destroyed, and the relics of the holy deacon translated to the church of St. Mary in Via lata, it is here that the Station is now held.


134 posted on 03/27/2007 5:33:18 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Interior of St. Mary via Lata

Day XXXV. Tuesday, Week V.

"When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself, says the Lord" (Communion antiphon for today - Jn12:32).

Santa Maria in via Lata. Tradition holds that St. Paul was placed under house arrest here and during that time, wrote the Letter to the Hebrews. Later, a church was built and the relics of several martyrs were interred here. But for me, I will remember this church, around the corner from my home, as the place where, every evening, the priest would lead the "Daughters of the Church" and the faithful in Eucharistic Adoration, praying for Christian unity. (The photo is of a 10th century Byzantine icon of our Lady, which is enshrined over the main altar).


Santa Maria in via Lata


135 posted on 03/27/2007 5:37:22 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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from St. Cantius

TUESDAY IN THE FIFTH (PASSION) WEEK OF LENT
Station—St. Cyriacus

The Sacred Texts, which like a garland, surround the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Divine Office must not only be understood in their literal and historical sense, but above all in their liturgical one. This is always the case, but especially during Passiontide.
The Divine Head, who nineteen centuries ago underwent the great Passion is now undergoing it in His Body, the Church. An attack on the Church is an attack on Christ. Whenever the Church suffers, her Divine head suffers. But all these sufferings lead to victory. "They have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. The disciple is not greater than the Master." Persecutions and sufferings purify the Church. They remove what is not of God. They cast forth all that comes from Satan—the arch-enemy, and that comes from the fatal act in Paradise—the arch-sin.
May the holy Deacon Cyriacus obtain for us "God's light and truth and conduct us and bring us to His holy hill, to the altar, to Calvary, to Easter, to the immortal Christ at the right-hand of the Father.
Let us pray: O Lord, deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. Send forth Thy Light and Thy Truth. They shall lead me on. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


136 posted on 03/27/2007 5:41:14 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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The Station today is at the church of St. Marcellus at the Corso. Legend claims that Pope St. Marcellus (308-309) was sentenced by Emperor Maxentius to look after the horses at the station of the Imperial mail on the Via Lata, where the Via del Corso now lies. He was freed by the people, and hidden in the house of the Roman lady Lucina (see also San Lorenzo in Lucina). He was rearrested, and imprisoned in the stables.

 


137 posted on 03/28/2007 8:08:25 AM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Interior of St. Marcellus

Day XXXVI. Wednesday, Week V.

"The truth will set you free" (Gospel for today - Jn 8:32).

San Marcello. Saint Marcellus was the 30th Pope. He was ordered to sacrifice to the gods. When he refused, he was condemned to work as a stable boy. Shortly thereafter, on January 16, 309, the venerable old man died from his labors. Over the stable, a church was built, one of the original 25 parishes of Rome. It was here that Pope Boniface I was consecrated in 418. Later, Pope Saint Marcellus was interred here as well as Pope Vigilius (538-555). The church was later destroyed by fire but miraculously, the cross survived and is venerated as miraculous. In fact, each year it is placed in Saint Peter's and venerated by the Holy Father during the Sacred Triduum (see photo). He also used this crucifix when he begged God's forgiveness for our many sins last year during the Jubilee Year. (March 12, 2000).

San Marcello

138 posted on 03/28/2007 8:11:14 AM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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WEDNESDAY IN THE FIFTH (PASSION) WEEK OF LENT
Station—St. Marcellus

A patient sufferer, condemned by his enemies to work in a horse-stable, the good shepherd, Pope Marcellus, is our leader today to the King of Martyrs, Christ, our Good Shepherd.
Why must a human being suffer, physically, spiritually, or both? This has always been and ever will be, the great problem—indeed a problem and a riddle for the worldly individual, but not for the follower of Christ, who finds the answer at the foot of the Cross.
For the Christ-loving soul, there is no suffering for suffering sake, there is suffering only for Easter sake, with its peace and strength and never fading victory.
The mystery of the Cross is the great answer, a solution, which the carnal-minded man will never find. St. Marcellus found it, and having found it, suffered gladly as a true athlete of Christ. "I will extol Thee, O Lord, for Thou has upheld me and has not made my enemies to rejoice over me."
Let us pray: Sanctify this fast, O God, and mercifully enlightening the hearts of Thy faithful, do Thou hear favorable those to whom Thou grant the grace of devotion. Through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.


139 posted on 03/28/2007 8:13:54 AM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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Catholic Culture

The Station at Rome is in the church of St. Apollinaris, who was a disciple of St. Peter, and afterwards bishop of Ravenna. He was martyred. The church was founded in the early Middle Ages, probably in the 7th century.


140 posted on 03/29/2007 8:49:28 AM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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