Stations of the Cross Help

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The last time I went to Stations had to have been some years ago when I was young and as such I don’t remeber it. But my parish has it tonight and I’m able to go. So what is it like at a church-organized Stations? I want to have a general idea beforehand.
 
There are eleventy million versions of the Stations of the Cross. Your parish will have selected one and will have an aid of some sort to help you.
 
In my parish, the people gather beforehand and put on albs. One person carries a large wooden cross. It’s the same one we use on Good Friday. The cross is accompanied by two candle bearers. The people go from station to station singing songs, hearing scripture, and praying prayers. At the last station, all kneel, recite the act of contrition and then remain kneeling in silent prayer for 20 minutes. Most go from church directly to the KofC Fish-N-Chips Dinner at the Parish Center.
 
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Wrong! Eleventy million two-hundred thousand and eighty-two versions! 😛
 
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Thanks all for the replies. It was nice to participate and while I’m not sure it’ll be for me in the future to be at a parish Stations, I’ll look at what your family uses, Cajun. Thanks.
 
I prefer to do it at home as only one parish in the area offers it in the St Alphonsus style in traditional English in the afternoon and I’m usually in work. The other parishes use modern resources which just don’t ‘do it’ for me.
I love the Stations written by Blessed John Henry Newman but that only happens once a year at the Ordinariate parish. I do use them at home though.
 
Been going every Friday night. We have a soup supper first, very plain, then Stations prayed with the priests and various ministry members taking the parts. We use the brown "Way of the Cross "booklets with the appropriate scripture passages, and me playing the Stabat Mater between each station. We alternate one Station in English, then one Station in Spanish. It’s very beautiful.
 
The parish children did the Stations after Mass on Sunday. (We did not have RCIA last night and when we don’t, I drive into Seattle and go to Mass at the Cathedral in the morning.) They wrote parts of it themselves. Hearing those little ones asking Jesus to help them be like Him made me tear up on more than one occasion. So sweet and just beautiful.
 
He has been wonderful to those of us in RCIA at the military chapel and has included us as members of his archdiocese, even though in a way we’re not. He extends assistance to us all the time. I’ve never met him but would like to.
 
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