Seven Quick Takes, vol 13
(A friend, however, has informed me that the Stations of the Cross are required to be said where one is actually moving from station to station? Also, there must be a crucifix present -- we have been neglecting that, since we usually use simply the images of the 14 stations. Does anyone know anything about such "requirements"? Are they not "valid" or something without these things?)
#2. Lenten resolutions for myself? Hey, I'm still thinking . . . .
Two years ago, one of my resolutions was to take my (then) two girls to daily Mass once a week on my own. I'm considering that one again . . . that will definitely be . . . um, hard . . . but not prayerful . . .
#3. In honor of Lent, I am linking to this absolutely delicious recipe for Whiskey Shrimp that is one of our favorite after-the-kids-are-in-bed-Friday-night dinners. I don't know how penitential this is, but it is meatless. :)
#5. On the one hand ,maybe its good we didn't get the chicken pox. We spent the first two and a half weeks of February sick and now poor Sunshine has the worst case of pinkeye that I have ever seen. It's so pathetic to see her little face. :(
We have been quarantined for most of the month!
#6. The CD player broke in our car. Bad, Bad, BAD. I miss the relative "calm" produced by a kid's CD on the back speakers and girls singing and listening. Now, they actually expect me to talk to them, darn it. Car trips used to be a mini-break from "Mommy? Mommy?" when Wee Sing or Music & Me or Dance on a Moonbeam was entertaining the back-seat-ers.
#7. Of course, I really do love my 3 girls, even when they make me carry on a conversation in the car.
Aren't they adorable?
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Viae Crucis exercitium (Stations of the Cross)
A plenary indulgence is granted the Christian faithful who devoutly make the Stations of the Cross. This devout exercise of the Stations of the Cross helps renew our remembrance of the sufferings that our divine redeemer underwent on his journey from Pilate’s praetorium, where he was condemned to death, to Mount Calvary, where for our salvation he died on the cross.
The norms for obtaining this plenary indulgence are the following:
1. This devout exercise must be performed before stations of the cross that have been lawfully erected.
2. Fourteen crosses are required in order to erect the Stations of the Cross. As an aid to devotion these crosses are customarily attached to fourteen tableaux or images representing the Jerusalem stations.
3. In accord with the more common custom, this devout exercise consists of fourteen pious readings to which are joined some vocal prayers. But in order to perform this devout exercise it is required only that one devoutly meditate upon the passion and death of the Lord. It is not required that one meditate upon each of the individual mysteries of the stations.
4. Movement from one station to the next is required. If this devout exercise is carried out publicly and such movement by all present cannot be done without some disorder, it is sufficient that the person who is leading the exercise move from station to station while the others remain in their places.
5. Persons who are legitimately prevented from fulfilling the above requirements can obtain this indulgence if they at least spend some time, e.g., fifteen minutes, in devout reading and meditation upon the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
6. Equivalent to this devout exercise of the Stations of the Cross — even with regard to obtaining the indulgence — are those other devout exercises which have been approved by competent authority and which call to mind the remembrance of the Lord’s passion and death in a manner similar to the Stations of the Cross.
7. In order to obtain this indulgence, the patriarchs can establish some other devout exercise in memory of the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ for those Eastern Christian faithful whose usages do not include this exercise of the Stations.