Stations of the Cross with Dana & Fr. Kevin Scallon, C.M.

The practice of going on pilgrimage dates back to the earliest years of the church. St. jerome, who lived in the Holy Land, writes of the number of christians who came on pilgrimage to visit the places associated with the life and death of Jesus. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, devotion to the passion Christ became common because of the number of former crusaders who erected representations of places they visited in the Holy Land.

When the Francisans began to take care of the Holy Places in the early fourteenth century, they were inspired to promote devotion to these places and to the Passion of Jesus. It is to them that the stations of the Cross, as we know them, can be traced.

Today the practice of making the Stations of the Cross centres on fourteen different representations,(or stations), of Christ on his final journey to Calvary. Each Station involves stopping to contemplate these scenes, accompanied by either silent or spoken meditation and prayer.

Please enjoy samples of songs with underlined titles in the track listing below.

Track List:

1. The 1st Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
2. The 2nd Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
3. The 3rd Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
4. The 4th Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
5. The 5th Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus
6. The 6th Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
7. The 7th Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
8. The 8th Station: Jesus Comforts the Women of Jerusalem
9. The 9th Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
10. The 10th Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments
11. The 11th Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
12. The 12th Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
13. The 13th Station: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross
14. The 14th Station: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb