Noun
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
Source: WordNetI loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. Anne Lamott
And then when suffering happens — as is beginning to unfold acutely at this moment in world history — we’re less prepared than we ought to be for the reality that we get a hall pass to skip the Stations of the Cross. Source: Internet
• Assumption Church in Syracuse has moved Lenten book club and Stations of the Cross online. Source: Internet
I did the Irish-American writer’s Stations of the Cross, moving to Belfast, to cover the war and live as an abused minority. Source: Internet
Later, four monks in brown robes and blue surgical masks prayed at the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa, the ancient route through the Old City where Jesus is believed to have carried the cross before his execution at the hands of the Romans. Source: Internet
And they are asking other concerned citizens to join them in what they're calling a "Prayer Mile": a one-mile Stations of the Cross prayer walk on Palm Sunday, March 20, starting at 12 noon at St. Mary Church in Pine Bluff. Source: Internet