Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, a saving virtue to our fast: that the chastisement of the flesh, which we have taken upon us, may bestow new life to our souls: through Our Lord… The Station is in the church of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus, two celebrated martyrs of Rome under the persecution of Diocletian. Their relics were brought…
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Station Friday Lent II: Statio ad St Vitalem
Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that, with the sacred fast to purify us, Thou mayest cause us to come with sincere minds to the holy things that are before us: through Our Lord… The Station for today is in the church of St. Vitalis, martyr, the father of the two illustrious Milanese martyrs,…
Station Thursday Lent II: Statio ad St Mariam trans Tibernim
Grant us, we beseech Thee, Lord, the help of Thy grace, so that we who are duly intent on fasting and prayer may be delivered from enemies of soul and body: through Our Lord… The Station for today is in the celebrated basilica, St. Mary‘s across the Tiber. It was consecrated in the third century,…
Station Monday Lent II: Statio ad St Clementem
Grant, we pray Thee, Almighty God, that Thy servants, who afflict their bodies by fasting may also abstain from sin and follow after justice: through Our Lord… The Station today is at St. Clement’s. The oldest level is thought to be the titulus Clementis, one of the first parish churches in Rome, and probably belonged…
Sunday Lent II: Statio ad St Mariam in Dominica
O God, Who seest that we have no power whatever from ourselves; keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts which may hurt the soul. Through Jesus Christ our Lord… The Station…
Ember Saturday Lent I: Statio ad St Petrum
We beseech thee, O Lord, graciously to hear the prayers of thy people; and of thy great goodness turn aside from them the scourges of thine anger: through Our Lord… St. Peter’s Basilica (Italian San Pietro in Vaticano) built by Constantine in 323, the basilica was erected over the place where St. Peter was buried, it is a major…
Station Thursday Lent I: Statio ad S. Laurentii
Mercifully look down, we beseech Thee, O Lord, upon the devotion of Thy people, that they who are mortified in the flesh by abstinence, may be refreshed in mind by the fruit of good works: through Our Lord… Station at St Laurence’s in Panisperna (via Panisperna on the Esquiline Hill, close to S. Mary Major) The…
Carissimi; Sunday’s Mass: Lent I
First Sunday of Lent: Missa “Invocabit Me” Our Lord Jesus Christ, directly after His baptism, prepared Himself for His public life and mission by a fast of forty days in the desert, which extends from Jericho to the mountains of Judea. Let us prepare ourselves by fast, prayers and works of charity for the solemn Feast of Easter….
Sunday Lent I: Statio Ad S Ioannem in Laterano
O God, who dost purify Thy Church by the yearly observance of Lent: grant to Thy household, that what we strive to obtain from Thee by abstinence, we may achieve by good works. Through our Lord Jesus Christ… On the first Sunday of Lent, the stational cycle brings us to the Cathedral Archbasilica of the Holy Savior…
Station Thursday after Ash Wednesday: Statio ad St Georgium
Statio ad St Georgium O God, who art offended by sin and appeased by penitence,look favourable upon the prayers of Thy suppliant people,and though for our sins we deserve it,turn away the scourge of Thy wrath:Through Our Lord… Surrounded by the ruins of the empire that put its patron to death, the humble church of…
Stational Churches in Lent: A pilgrimage
Historically, on particular days the faithful of Rome would gather (or collect together) with the pope at a designated church called the ecclesia collecta. After the recitation of a prayer there, the assembly proceeded to another church referred to as the stational church. In procession, they chanted the Litany of the Saints. At the stational…
Station Wednesday Passiontide II: Statio ad St Mariam Majorem
Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that we who are continually afflicted by reason of our excesses, may be delivered through the passion of Thine only-begotten Son. The Station today is at St. Mary Major for the second time during Lent. As we set our eyes on the Sacred Triduum, it is good to stand in…
