Monday Of The Third Week In Lent. Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Mark's, Rome.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Monday of The Third Week in Lent.
   Station at Saint Mark's, Rome.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Façade of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

To the Right, is the Palazzo Venezia, the former See of The Embassy

of The Republic of Venice, whose Protector was Saint Mark.

Italiano: Facciata della basilica di San Marco a Roma.

Photo: January 2006.

Author: Panairjdde.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station is at Saint Mark’s, an ancient Parish Church of Rome, built in the 4th-Century A.D. by Pope Saint Mark in honour of his Patron, The Evangelist. Under the Altar lie the Remains of this Pope, with the bodies of The Holy Martyrs, Abdon and Sennen.

One cannot choose a better spot wherein to read this account of The Syrian, Naaman, than in this Sanctuary, so clearly Oriental, since Saint Mark is the Founder of The Patriarchal Seat of Alexandria, and Abdon and Sennen are Persians. This account of Naaman seems to make allusion to the Egyptians of Alexandria, whom Saint Mark healed from the leprosy of unbelief by Baptism.

Saint Ursula and her Companions,

with Pope Ciriacus and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Artist: Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1590–1625).

Date: 1608.

Current location: Basilica di San Marco, Rome

(Basilica of Saint Mark, Rome).

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Epistle and the Gospel speak to us of Naaman, the valiant General of the King of Syria’s Army. He was cured by bathing in The Jordan, although he did not belong to the Race of Israel. Later on, Jesus was to plunge Himself into the same River and to communicate a Sanctifying Virtue to its waters.

The Nave,

San Marco, Rome.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

(Wikimedia Commons)

Naaman, therefore, is a figure of the heathen whom The Church, by Baptism, cures of the leprosy of sin. Peter, says Tertullian, has Baptised in The Tiber, and those that he has cleansed, from the leprosy of sin, have abandoned the waters of Damascus, by which is meant their sensual life.

Let us renew ourselves, in the spirit of our Baptism, by purifying our hearts in the salutary bath of Penitence. This will cure them of the leprosy of the Soul called sin.

Mass: In Deo.

The High Altar,

Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

Photo: July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: SteO153

Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Organ of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome.

Italiano: Roma, basilica di san Marco, controfacciata e organo.

Photo: October 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

In 336 A.D., Pope Saint Mark built a Church devoted to one of The Evangelists, his name-bearer Saint Mark, in a place called ad Pallacinas. The Church is recorded as Titulus Marci in The 499 A.D. Synod of Pope Symmachus. [At that time, it became one of The Stational Churches of The City (Monday of The Third Week in Lent)].

After Restoration, 792 A.D., by Pope Adrian I, the Church was rebuilt by Pope Gregory IV, 833 A.D.

Besides the addition of a Romanesque Bell-Tower in 1154, the major change in the architecture of the Church was ordered by Pope Paul II in 1465-1470, when the Interior and Exterior were re-styled according to the Renaissance taste. On that occasion, the Church was assigned to the Venetian people living in Rome, Pope Paul II being a Venetian by birth.

Pope Paul II (1464 - 1471), who ordered the re-styling

of the Basilica of Saint Mark's, Rome, in the Renaissance Style.

Artist: Cristofano dell'Altissimo (1525–1605).

Picture title: Pietrobarbo.

Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Original uploader was Savidan at en.wikipedia, 2007-06-29 (original upload date).

(Wikimedia Commons)

The last major re-working of the Basilica was started in 1654-1657 and completed by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in 1735-1750. With these Restorations, the Church received its current Baroque decoration.

The façade (1466) was built with Marble taken from The Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus, and is attributed to Leon Battista Alberti.

English: The Theatre of Marcellus, Rome, from which Marble

was taken 

to build the façade of the Basilica di San Marco a Roma.

Italiano: Il teatro di Marcello accanto al tempio di Apollo Sosiano (in Circo)

a Roma, 

ripreso dai piedi del Campidoglio, oltre la moderna via del Teatro di Marcello.

Foto ripresa personalmente maggio 2005.

Photo: 2005.

Author: MM, uploaded to Italian wikipedia 09.05.2005.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The inside is clearly Baroque. However, the Basilica shows noteworthy elements of all its history.

The Apse mosaics, dating back to Pope Gregory IV, show the Pope, with the squared halo of a living person, offering a model of the Church to Christ, in the presence of Saint Mark The Evangelist, Pope Saint Mark and other Saints.

The wooden Ceiling, with the emblem of Pope Paul II, is one of only two original 15th-Century wooden Ceilings in Rome, together with the one at Santa Maria Maggiore.

The Third Sunday In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence-Without-The-Walls.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Third Sunday in Lent.
   Station at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Privilege of The First Class.

Violet Vestments.

(The spelling of this Saint's name can be either Laurence or Lawrence.)

Jesus casts out an unclean spirit.

Whereupon a woman, lifting up her voice cries:

"Blessed is the womb that bore Thee".

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: Rene de Cramer.

"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".

Used with Permission.

English: Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Italiano: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Photo: February 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Panairjdde

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station, today, is made at Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls, one of the first Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome, where are buried the bodies of the two Deacons, Laurence and Stephen. In the Collect for Saint Laurence's Feast (10 August), we Pray that the flame of our sins may be quenched within us, as the Saint overcame the fire of his torments; while, in that for Saint Stephen's Day, we undertake to love our enemies, like this Saint who Prayed for his persecutors.

Here are two virtues, Chastity and Charity, which were especially practised by the Patriarch Joseph, whose history The Church gives us this week in The Breviary. For Joseph resisted the evil solicitation of Potiphar's wife, while, on the other hand, he loved his brethren to the extent of rendering them good for evil.

When Joseph told his brethren the dreams, which foreshadowed his future greatness, they became filled with hatred against him, and at the first opportunity got rid of him by throwing him into a disused pit. After which, they sold him to some Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt and, after, sold him to an Egyptian noble named Potiphar. It was in this man's house that Joseph strenuously resisted the advances of his wife, thus becoming a great model of purity.

The Cloisters,

San Lorenzo fuori le mura

(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853).

Date: 1824.

Current location: Art Institute of Chicago,

(Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection).

Photo: April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: user:Rlbberlin

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Ambrose says: "Today, it is the history of the pious Joseph which invites our attention. He possessed many virtues, yet he shone especially by his conspicuous Chastity. Rightly, therefore, is this holy Patriarch set before us as a Mirror of Chastity" (Matins).

When Joseph was cast into prison, having been unjustly accused by Potiphar's wife, turning to God in Prayer, he asked to be freed from his bonds. In similar terms, we say in the Introit: "My eyes are ever towards The Lord; for He shall pluck my feet out of the snare." And the Tract continues: "Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, so are our eyes unto The Lord our God, until He have mercy on us."

And, in the Collect, we speak of Almighty God, Who regards the desires of those who humble themselves, as stretching forth in our defence the Right-Hand of His Majesty. In this event, Pharao took Joseph from his prison, made him sit on his Right-Hand, and entrusted to him the government of his whole Kingdom; and when, through his gift of foreknowledge he predicted the famine which should last seven years, Pharao gave him the title "Saviour of the people." [Only once in the Gospels is this title given to Our Lord, namely, when He was speaking to the Samaritan woman, at Jacob's Well. The incident is recorded in the Gospel for Friday of this week, devoted, Liturgically-speaking, to the history of Joseph.]

Interior of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura

(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).

Illustration: http://papastronsay.blogspot.com

Then, Joseph's brethren came to Egypt and he told them: "I am Joseph, whom you sold. Be not afraid. God has brought everything to pass that I may be the means of preserving you from death." Jacob's happiness, at seeing his son again, was unbounded; and he came and lived with his sons in The Land of Gessen, which Joseph gave them.

Saint Ambrose says: "The jealousy of Joseph's brethren is at the bottom of all the facts which make up his history. Besides, it is recorded to teach us that a perfect man does not give the rein to his desire to avenge an outrage or to render evil for evil" (Matins).

English: Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

Fotografia Anderson, Rome - Catalogue # 110.

Italiano: Fotografia Anderson, Roma -

"Roma - S. Lorenzo Fuori le Mura".

Numero di catalogo: 110.

Date: 1938.

Source: Own work (scan).

Author: Either James Anderson (1813-1877)

or his son Domenico Anderson (1854-1938).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Surely, in all this, we can recognise a type of Christ and His Church. Jesus, The Blessed Virgin's Son, is, in the highest degree, the model of Virginal Purity. And, in today's Gospel, we see Him contending in a special way with the unclean spirit. For so do Saint Matthew and Saint Luke describe the Devil, whom Our Lord cast out of The Dumb Man by The Finger of God, that is, by The Holy Ghost.

So does The Church drive out the same unclean spirit from the Souls of the Newly-Baptised. Lent was a time of Preparation for Baptism and, in administering this Sacrament, the Priest breathes three times on the person to be Baptised with the words: "Go out of the child, unclean spirit, and give place to The Holy Ghost."

Saint Bede, in his Commentary on this Gospel, says: "What then took place, visibly, is every day accomplished, invisibly, in the conversion of those who become Believers. First, the Devil is driven out of their Soul, then they perceive The Light of Faith; and, finally, their mouth, until then dumb, opens to Praise God" (Matins).

Pope Saint Pius X

is buried at the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura

(Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls).

Date: between 1880 and 1900.

Source: Library of Congress, U.S.A.

Author: Tryphosa Bates Batcheller.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In the same sense, in today's Epistle, Saint Paul says: "No fornicator or unclean or covetous person hath inheritance in The Kingdom of Christ and of God. Fornication and all uncleanness, let it not so much as be named among you."

And it is especially at this Season of Combat against Satan that we must imitate Christ, of Whom Joseph was only the type.

With regard to the Virtue of Charity, of which this Patriarch has set us an example, the likeness to Christ and His Church is obvious enough. Our Lord, too, was hated by His own people and sold by one of His Apostles, and, when He was Dying on The Cross, He Prayed for His enemies.

He had recourse to God and God Glorified Him, making Him sit on His Right-Hand in His Kingdom. As Joseph distributed the corn of nature, so, at Easter, Jesus will distribute The Wheat of The Eucharist. We know that, as a condition of receiving Holy Communion,

The Church requires that Charity, of which an example was set by Saint Stephen when he pardoned his enemies, and whose Relics are kept in the Church where today's Station is held, the same Charity above all, which Our Lord practised in an heroic degree when He "delivered Himself for us" on The Cross, of which The Eucharist is the Constant Memorial.

Thus, Joseph, as a type of Our Lord, and today's Station, perfectly illustrate The Paschal Mystery for which The Liturgy prepares us at this Season.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Oculi mei.

Pope Pelagius II (579 A.D. - 590 A.D.)

ordered the enlargement of 

the

Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls.

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless stated otherwise.

The Papal Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura) is a Roman Catholic Parish Church and Minor Basilica, located in Rome, Italy.

The Basilica is one of The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and one of The Five Patriarchal Basilicas, each of which is assigned to a Patriarchate. Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls is assigned to The Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The Papal Basilica is the Shrine Tomb of the Church's namesake, Saint Laurence, one of the first Seven Deacons of Rome, Martyred in 258 A.D. Blessed Pope Pius IX, awaiting Canonisation into Sainthood, is also buried at the Basilica.

Basilica of Saint Laurence-without-the-Walls,

Rome, Italy.

(pre-1943 bombing raid of Rome).

The following three paragraphs are taken from TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS

The Laurentian Basilica owes its Foundation to Emperor Constantine, but, being considered too small, a large Upper Aula was added to it by Pope Pelagius II (578 A.D. - 590 A.D.) and Dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.

For this reason, Pope Leo IV (847 A.D. - 855 A.D.) decreed that The Station for The Octave of The Assumption should be held here.

The Gospel of today alludes to this Dedication by Praising The Great Mother of God, who, not only gave Her Own Substance to form The Sacred Humanity of The Lord's Anointed, but was, on her part, nourished Spiritually by The Divine Word and lived thereby.

The 1960s. A Blast From The Past !!! A Time Without Equal. They Were Halcyon Days. Never To Be Repeated. "Rock On Tommy".

"Mods" in The 1960s.

"The Smooth Guys".

Illustration: PINTEREST

English: 1960s' "Mods".

Italiano: Mods a bordo di Lambretta 175 TV 3ª serie del 1962, ampiamente modificata.

Date: 19 February 2006.

Source; originally posted to Flickr as MODS.

Author: Sergio Calleja (Life is a trip)

(Wikipedia Commons)

"Pinball Wizard".

The Who.

The Who's music was a "Mods" favourite in the 1960s.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Rockers" in The 1960s.

"The Rough Guys".

The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth sub-cultures of the

Early- to Mid-1960s. Media coverage of Mods and Rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a

moral panic about British youths, and the two groups became labelled as folk devils.

The Rockers considered Mods to be weedy, effeminate snobs,

and Mods saw Rockers as out of touch, oafi-ish and grubby.

[Editor: All in all. Great fun].

Illustration: SAKROFI-AHISTORYOF.BLOGSPOT

"Jumping Jack Flash".

The Rolling Stones.

Available on You Tube at

YOU TUBE

"California Dreaming".

The Mamas and Papas.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

1960's Fashion.

Illustration: VIPME FASHION DISCOVERY

"He's So Fine".

The Chiffons.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Big Girls Don't Cry".

The Four Seasons.

Available on You Tube at

YOU TUBE

"Wouldn't It Be Nice".

The Beach Boys.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ".

The Shirelles.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Working My Way Back To You, Babe".

The Four Seasons.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"One Fine Day".

The Chiffons.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"The Night Has A Thousand Eyes".

Bobby Vee.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Angel Of The Morning".

P. P. Arnold.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"Mrs Robinson".

Simon and Garfunkel.

Available on YouTube at

YOUTUBE

"Angel Of The Morning".

Merrilee Rush and The Turnabouts.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

"He's A Rebel".
The Crystals.
Available on YouTube at
YOU TUBE



"Dance, Dance, Dance".
The Beach Boys.
Available on YouTube at
YOU TUBE

"I'll Never Find Another You".

The Seekers.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Saturday Of The Second Week In Lent. Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Marcellinus And Saint Peter.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saturday of The Second Week in Lent.
   Station at Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Basilica of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter.

Italiano: Basilica Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 23 March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Station is in the Basilica Founded by Saint Helen, where were buried the bodies of Saint Marcellinus, Priest, and Saint Peter, Exorcist, Martyred at Rome during The Diocletian Persecution. Their names are mentioned in The Canon of The Mass. This Church was one of the twenty-five Roman Parish Churches in the 5th-Century A.D.

As yesterday, the Epistle and Gospel repeat, in figure and Parable, lessons to The Catechumens and Public Penitents.

Isaac had two sons. Esau represents The People of God who sell their birthright to gratify their carnal appetite. Jacob represents the Gentiles, who check their passions and are Blessed by Heaven.

English: Church of Saints Marcellino and Peter, Cremona, Italy.

Italiano: Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro Location Cremona, Lombardy, Italy.

Photo: 26 September 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mattana.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Jesus, in the same way, said: "A man had two sons: The elder is the Jewish element of the primitive Church, which is scandalised at the vocation of the Gentiles and is loathe to associate with them; the Prodigal is the pagan element. After having wasted all The Gifts of God, these unhappy people mourn their sins and atone for them; they come to Jesus, Who opens His Arms to them, presses them to His Heart, and satisfies their hunger with His Sacred Body and Precious Blood in The Eucharistic Feast.

Let us ask God to Bless our Lenten Fast, so that the mortification of our flesh may bring health to our Souls (Collect).

Mass: Lex Dómine.

The Basilica of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: October 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano is a Roman Catholic Parish and Titular Church in Rome. It is Dedicated to Saints Marcellinus and Peter, 4th-Century A.D. Roman Martyrs, whose Relics were brought here in 1256.

The first Church on the site was built by Pope Siricius in the 4th-Century A.D., close to the Via Labicana's Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, with an adjoining Hospice, which became a Centre for Pilgrims. This Church was restored by Pope Gregory III in the 8th-Century A.D. [Ever since these early Centuries, it has been among Rome's Stational Churches (for Saturday of The Second Week in Lent). In the 9th-Century A.D., when Christian Churches began to be built in Germany and were in need of Relics, the Remains of Saints Marcellinus and Peter were Transferred from The Catacomb, where they still rested, to Seligenstadt, Germany.]

Church of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter,

Seligenstadt, Germany.

Photo: 5 September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agridecumantes.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Basilica of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter,

Seligenstadt, Germany.

Deutsch: Basilika St. Marcellinus und Petrus in Seligenstadt.

Photo: 15 November 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: © 1971markus.

Attribution: © 1971markus@wikipedia.de

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Church was again restored in 1256 [by Pope Alexander IV, and the Martyrs' Relics were returned.] (Also, under The High Altar is an urn containing Relics of Saint Marcia.) On the Left Side, is an Altar Dedicated to The Blessed Virgin, with a Copy of Guido Reni's "The Virgin in Glory with Angels, Saint Joseph and Saint Rita". Next to it, is The Chapel of Reconciliation.

English: My parents' wedding.

Inside the "Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro"

[Church of Saint Marcellinus and Saint Peter],

Imbersago, Lombardy, Italy.

Italiano: Matrimonio dei miei genitori.

Interno della "Chiesa dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro"

a Imbersago, Italia (prima del restauro).

Photo: 12 September 1972.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jalo.

(Wikimedia Commons)

An image of The Dedicatees was placed on The First Column on The Left, from the Entrance, during this Restoration, with an Inscription recording the Restoration. The Hospice and Church were then given, in 1276, to The Confraternity of Those Commended to The Saviour.

The present Church is the result of Pope Benedict XIV's 1751 rebuild, leaving it with its present cube-shaped Exterior, divided by Pilaster Strips in a style close to Neo-Classicism, Borromini-influenced Dome, façade by Girolamo Theodoli, and Altarpiece by Gaetano Lapis, depicting The Dedicatees' Martyrdom.

After that Restoration, the Church was given to The Discalced Carmelites, who Served it until 1906. A small Chapel to Our Lady of Lourdes was Dedicated at the South-East (next to a Chapel of Saint Gregory The Great), with a new Ceiling painting of Our Lady, by N. Caselli, in 1903. Since 1911, it has been a Parochial Church, Served by Diocesan Clergy.

Stations Of The Cross. Every Friday During Lent. When Was The Last Time You Followed The Way Of The Cross ?

Taken from: FR. Z's BLOG

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, FR. Z's BLOG

Since it is a Friday of Lent, a First Friday, do please Pray The Act of Reparation.

Here also are my audio projects of The Way of The Cross.

What we need right now is PRAYER, especially at the end of this hard week. And remember to

GO TO CONFESSION !!!

Also, these days, we especially need to Pray for Priests, which includes Bishops and everyone up the hierarchy

There are many Priests, today, who  – for one reason or another  –  are failing in their duty to teach with clarity what The Church has always taught.

There are other Priests who are becoming discouraged and afraid concerning what might befall them if they remain clear and faithful. Yet other Priests are mired in sins. And always there are those Priests who are infirm, old, nearing their judgment.

Hence, this year, I’ve added a new version, The Way Of The Cross For Priests from The Benedictines of Silverstream Priory. HERE.

Would you consider getting copies of this for your Priests where you are ?

They also have beautiful Altar Cards HERE.

 In my reading, I left out the references to the Scripture passages which are quoted, for they would not be read in a public recitation. I urge you, however, to obtain a hard copy so that, if you wish, you can find them. Even more, I urge you Lay People to get a copy and then Pray with it for Priests.

Below are readings of The Via Crucis, The Way of The Cross, composed by
Joseph Card. Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at The Colosseum in Rome.
Saint Alphonus Liguori.
Blessed John Henry Newman.
Saint Francis of Assisi (according to the method . . . )
Silverstream Priory – The Way Of The Cross For Priests.

There are two versions of "The Way" by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. One is plain with just my voice. The other is the same voice recording, but with The Gregorian Chant Sequence Stabat Mater interlaced between The Stations.

There are two versions of "The Way", by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. One is plain, with just my voice. The other is the same voice recording but with the Gregorian chant Sequence Stabat Mater interlaced between The Stations.

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You can gain a Plenary Indulgence, under the usual conditions of Confession and Communion, within a few days of the work, and detachment even from Venial Sin. From The Handbook of Indulgences:

63. Exercise of The Way of The Cross (Viae Crucis exercitium).

A Plenary Indulgence is granted to The Faithful, who make the pious exercise of The Way of The Cross.

The gaining of the Plenary Indulgence is regulated by the following norms:

The pious exercise must be made before Stations of The Way of The Cross, legitimately erected.

For the erection of The Way of The Cross, Fourteen Crosses are required, to which it is customary to add Fourteen Pictures, or, Images, which represent The Stations of Jerusalem.

According to the more common practice, the pious exercise consists of Fourteen Pious Readings, to which some vocal Prayers are added. However, nothing more is required than a pious Meditation on The Passion and Death of The Lord, which need not be a particular consideration of the individual Mysteries of The stations.

A movement from one Station to the next is required.

I believe that, if you follow The Holy Father’s Way of The Cross on Good Friday, even by television, the Indulgence is available.

If the pious exercise is made publicly and if it is not possible for all taking part to go in an orderly way from Station to Station, it suffices if, at least, the one conducting the exercise goes from Station to Station, the others remaining in their place.

Those who are “impeded” can gain the same Indulgence, if they spend at least one half an hour in pious Reading and Meditation on The Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

For those belonging to Eastern Rites, among whom this pious exercise is not practiced, the respective Patriarchs can determine some other pious exercise in memory of The Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ for the gaining of this Indulgence.

Meanwhile, from a reader last year . . .

Just a quick note to say thank you for providing your recordings of The Stations of The Cross. I am completely blind and had committed to making this part of my Lenten practices, only to have the Braille display, from which I read promptly, die. I had been struggling to find a recording of Saint Alphonsus’ version.

May God bless you !

If these recordings are helpful to you, please say a Prayer for me, especially if you use The Way Of The Cross For Priests.