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The objective of the stations is to help the Christian faithful to make a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation of the Passion of Christ. It has become one of the most popular devotions and the stations can be found in many Western Christian churches, including those in the Roman Catholic , Lutheran , Anglican , and Methodist traditions.
The National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, popularly known as The Grotto, is a Catholic outdoor altar and sanctuary located in the Madison South district of Portland, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1924, the sanctuary covers 62 acres (25 ha), [ 2 ] set both at the foot of, and atop, a 110 foot (34 m) cliff.
As the Stations of the Cross are prayed during the season of Lent in Catholic churches, each station is traditionally followed by a verse of the Stabat Mater, composed in the 13th century by Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. James Matthew Wilson's poetic sequence, The Stations of the Cross, is written in the same meter as da Todi's poem. [37]
The Scriptural Way of the Cross or Scriptural Stations of the Cross is a modern version of the ancient Christian, especially Catholic, devotion called the Stations of the Cross. This version was inaugurated on Good Friday 1991 by Pope John Paul II. The Scriptural version was not intended to invalidate the traditional version.
KNLR Bend, Oregon; KNLS Anchor Point, Alaska; KNOM Nome, Alaska; KOOV Kempner, Texas (Armor of God Catholic Radio Network) KPDQ (AM) Portland, Oregon (Salem Communications) KPDQ-FM Portland, Oregon (Salem Communications) KPHN El Dorado, Kansas; KPOF AM91 Denver's Point of Faith Westminster, Colorado website; KPUL Winterset, Iowa; KQOV-LP Butte ...
The event was criticized on the Catholic Television station EWTN. In a 1993 episode of Mother Angelica Live, Mother Angelica harshly criticized a mimed re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross which was not attended by Pope John Paul II. [3] Mother Angelica was particularly upset that a woman was playing Jesus. [4]
The Archdiocese of Portland of the U.S. state of Oregon is home to several monasteries and other Catholic religious communities.
In the traditional scheme of the Stations of the Cross, the final Station is the burial of Jesus. Though this constitutes a logical conclusion to the Via Crucis, it has been increasingly regarded as unsatisfactory [by whom?] as an end-point to meditation upon the Paschal mystery, which according to Christian doctrine culminates in, and is incomplete without, the Resurrection (see, for example ...