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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 fifth station refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him. [27] This narrative is included in the three Synoptic Gospels . [ 28 ] The current traditional site for the station is located at the east end of the western fraction of the Via Dolorosa , adjacent to the Chapel of Simon of ...
Most Catholic churches hold services surrounding the Stations of the Cross that may even include a live reenactment. The first Station of the Cross is Jesus being condemned to death by Pontious Pilot.
The young adult group has been doing the Live Stations of the Cross in Spanish for about the past 15 years. About 20 people took part in this year’s staging, practicing three times a week for ...
Articles relating to the Stations of the Cross, a series of images depicting Jesus on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers.The stations grew out of imitations of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, which is a traditional processional route symbolising the actual path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary.
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.
Andrea di Bartolo, Way to Calvary, c. 1400.The cluster of halos at the left are the Virgin Mary in front, with the Three Marys. Sebastiano del Piombo, about 1513–14. Christ Carrying the Cross on his way to his crucifixion is an episode included in the Gospel of John, and a very common subject in art, especially in the fourteen Stations of the Cross, sets of which are now found in almost all ...
Stations of the Cross, number 7, Jesus falls for the second time, at Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) Items portrayed in this file depicts.