Lent
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So, what are you all doing for Lent?
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not much... unfortunately...
gotta go for my reservist soon so maybe if they let me out earlier, can go for friday evening Masses
apart from that, again, not much
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Lol, maybe you can do more good works. Like help your buddy carry his stuff or something.
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Nothing much. Tomorrow going for Station of the Cross. But haven't decided which church to go to.Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:So, what are you all doing for Lent?
Actually hor... we can invite our Protestant brothers and sisters to join us for the Stations. After all, the whole process is biblical and inspiring. -
most of the stations out of tt 14 stations r based on traditions and not biblical accounts.Originally posted by Honeybunz:Nothing much. Tomorrow going for Station of the Cross. But haven't decided which church to go to.
Actually hor... we can invite our Protestant brothers and sisters to join us for the Stations. After all, the whole process is biblical and inspiring.
The part where Jesus fall first time, second time, wiping of His face using a hanky given by veronica etc...are no where to be found in the gospel. so cannot say biblical.
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The stations of the cross are a sacramental.
In looking at one station he sees Our Lord on trial before Pilate;
in another he sees Him crowned with thorns;
in another, scourged;
in another, carrying His Cross;
in another, crucified;
in another, dead and laid in the tomb.
Before all these pictures he reflects on the sufferings of Our Saviour,
and begins to hate sin, that caused them. Then he thinks, of his own sins, and
begins to be sorry for them. This sorrow, caused by going around the stations,
brings him grace that remits venial sins. When we receive the Sacraments we
always get the grace of the Sacraments when we are rightly disposed; but in
using the sacramentals, the more devotion we have the more grace we receive.
(Baltimore Catechism Part 4 Lesson 27) -
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8,9)
By pondering over the last moments of Christ life on earth, one can see the humiliation and shame, pain and hurts our Redeemer went through and for a moment feel sorrowful for our own sins. True repentance is God-origined and does not comes from us seeing some sorrowful wall plagues and reminded of His death. And the grace, all sufficient grace is given to us when Christ died on the cross. Never by means of our own actions or devotion. -
Err...so you are saying that we won't recieve any more grace from God in this life time? But like you said, true repentance comes from God, and if that is not called grace, I don't not know what it is called.Originally posted by NeonTetra:True repentance is God-origined and does not comes from us seeing some sorrowful wall plagues and reminded of His death. And the grace, all sufficient grace is given to us when Christ died on the cross. Never by means of our own actions or devotion. -
of course u will...the grace of God has been poured out/lavished upon us because Christ has atoned for our sins and position us as receivers of His grace.Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:Err...so you are saying that we won't recieve any more grace from God in this life time? But like you said, true repentance comes from God, and if that is not called grace, I don't not know what it is called.
Christ opened the way for us. -
In any case, here are some facts.
The earliest precedents for the Stations of the Cross to back to the 400s, but the first true forms of the Stations developed in the 1400s. These were modeled after the via dolorosa in Jerusalem, which had been marked out since the early centuries and used as a devotional site for pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem.
The devotion of the Way of the Cross spread to monasteries around the Christian world as a way of imitating the pilgrim route in Jerusalem, and eventually it became standard in parishes.
Below are the stations and their biblical evidence.
1. Jesus is condemned -- Luke 23:24
2. Jesus carries his cross -- John 19:17
3. Jesus falls the first time -- By inference from stations 2 and 5
4. Jesus meets his mother -- By inference from John 19:25-27
5. Simon of Cyrene helps carry the cross -- Matthew 27:32
6. Veronica wipes Jesus' face -- Not recorded in Scripture
7. Jesus falls a second time -- Not recorded in Scripture
8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem -- Luke 23:27-31
9. Jesus falls the third time -- Not recorded in Scripture
10. Jesus is stripped of his garments -- John 19:23
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross -- Mark 15:24
12. Jesus dies on the cross -- Mark 15:37
13. His body is taken down from the cross -- Luke 23:53
14. His body is laid in the tomb -- Matthew 27:60
You won't find any for St Veronica, it must have been developed during the middle ages.
http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/stations.htm