Stations of the Cross
Most Catholic churches nowadays will have ‘stations’ (the name means ‘stopping-places’), in the form of fourteen pictures or sculptures or engravings, or sometimes simple crosses, to allow Christians to pause (‘stop’) and enter reflectively into those last moments of Jesus’s journey of love, and to pray by imagining themselves in Jerusalem with him.
Over the centuries the number and format of this devotion has changed a good deal, but it has had its present form since the 15th Century.
The following pages have the fourteen Stations within the church of St Francis of Assisi, Long Eaton, each with a short reflection. Feel free to go through them in order (each page leads on to the next) or click on any in the list
(They can be viewed or downloaded as a PDF document by clicking on this link)
The First Station The Eighth Station
The Second Station The Ninth Station
The Third Station The Tenth Station
The Fourth Station The Eleventh Station
The Fifth Station The Twelfth Station