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The object of the
Stations is to help the faithful to make in spirit, as it were, a
pilgrimage to the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death,
and this has become one of the most popular of Catholic devotions. It is
carried out by passing from Station to Station, with certain prayers at
each and devout meditation on the various incidents in turn.
There
is no devotion more richly endowed with indulgences than the Way of the
Cross, and none which enables us more literally to obey Christ's
injunction to take up our cross and follow Him. The Stations may be made
either publicly or privately in any church renders the devotion
specially suitable for all. One of the most popularly attended Ways of
the Cross at the present day is that in the Colosseum at Rome, where
every Friday the devotion of the Stations is conducted publicly by a
Franciscan Father. |