Here are some of my audio projects of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross.
I am redoing them with my new podcast setup.
I’ll be adding some that I’ve done, so watch this post.
And remember to GO TO CONFESSION!
With this devotion you can gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions of confession and Communion within a few days of the work and detachment even from venial sin. From the Handbook of Indulgences:
63. Exercise of the Way of the Cross (Viae Crucis exercitium)
A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful, who make the pious exercise of the Way of the Cross.
The gaining of the plenary indulgence is regulated by the following norms:
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The pious exercise must be made before stations of the Way of the Cross legitimately erected.
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For the erection of the Way of the Cross fourteen crosses are required, to which it is customary to add fourteen pictures or images, which represent the stations of Jerusalem.
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According to the more common practice, the pious exercise consists of fourteen pious readings, to which some vocal prayers are added. However, nothing more is required than a pious meditation on the Passion and Death of the Lord, which need not be a particular consideration of the individual mysteries of the stations.
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A movement from one station to the next is required.
If the pious exercise is made publicly and if it is not possible for all taking part to go in an orderly way from station to station, it suffices if at least the one conducting the exercise goes from station to station, the others remaining in their place.
Those who are “impeded” can gain the same indulgence, if they spend at least one half an hour in pious reading and meditation on the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For those belonging to Eastern Rites, among whom this pious exercise is not practiced, the respective Patriarchs can determine some other pious exercise in memory of the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ for the gaining of this indulgence.
If these recordings are helpful to you, please say a prayer for me.
For priests, especially, try The Way Of The Cross For Priests from the Benedictines of Silverstream Priory. HERE. Would you consider getting copies of this for your priests where you are? Lay people: pray it for priests.
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Thank you very much.
The link to the Way of the Cross seems to be broken. At least from here.
Thanks for the recordings. always use them. prayed for you, but that is not a novelty anymore…
Thank you so very much. Haven’t been able to attend Stations so this was a Godsend. Asked God’S blessings on you.
I’m glad to have been of use.
Some of my happiest memories as a teen was going to the nursing home down the street with my parents to do Stations during Lent. It was an official outreach of the parish, so they had all the gear including a special crucifix with a little icon representing each of the stations on it so that the sick or home bound could receive this indulgence. Mom and Dad would set up two easels to hold giant prints of the stations and we would move from one easel to the next while leading the prayers. The residents loved it. Now my husband’s job makes attending Stations at the parish much harder, but even when we can’t go we at least do it at home. We don’t have stations of our own or that lovely crucifix, but we still say the prayers.
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Here in Western Canada many of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes were built by Belgian and Dutch Redemptorists. Those loving Latin priests learned Church Slavonic and proper Byzantine architecture and built a lot of the parishes out here themselves. When the Ukrainians entered into their newly consecrated temples, they saw strange paintings on their walls. These were the 14 Stations of the Cross, a practice essentially universal amongst Latins but rather foreign to the Greeks. However, the Ukrainians embraced them and wrote their own pious prayers for the Stations, which include several full prostrations. They are some of the most beautiful and haunting Stations that I have ever prayed and I and my family (my wife is Ukrainian Greek Catholic) are very happy for this rare and welcomed “Latinization” in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. God bless those dear Redemptorists Fathers that went above and beyond to build and serve those early Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes!
Here is a link to the Stations from the Metropolitan Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral in Winnipeg: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=952626698774691
Don’t forget that for all plenary indulgences, one must also pray for the pope’s intentions.