Today is Palm Sunday, and at Mass we hear the reading of the Passion, the account of the Lord's suffering and death. This same event is recalled in a popular devotion of Lent and Holy Week: the Stations of the Cross. In the magnificant Basilica in Lisieux, built as the shrine of St Thérèse, the Stations are (somewhat unusually) depicted in the stained glass windows. Above we see an image of the fourth station: Jesus meets His blessed mother.
Behind the Basilica there is a small garden. It was here that Thérèse's parents were buried until their beatification last October; their bodies have now been moved to the crypt of the Basilica.
Within the garden there is a larger version of the Stations of the Cross, designed to be used by pilgrim groups. At each station there is a small quotation from Thérèse. The saint often contemplated the Passion of Jesus, and this contemplation no doubt helped her in the great suffering she experienced in the last 18 months of her life.
Today is Palm Sunday, and at Mass we hear the reading of the Passion, the account of the Lord's suffering and death. This same event is recalled in a popular devotion of Lent and Holy Week: the Stations of the Cross. In the magnificant Basilica in Lisieux, built as the shrine of St Thérèse, the Stations are (somewhat unusually) depicted in the stained glass windows. Above we see an image of the fourth station: Jesus meets His blessed mother.
Behind the Basilica there is a small garden. It was here that Thérèse's parents were buried until their beatification last October; their bodies have now been moved to the crypt of the Basilica.
Within the garden there is a larger version of the Stations of the Cross, designed to be used by pilgrim groups. At each station there is a small quotation from Thérèse. The saint often contemplated the Passion of Jesus, and this contemplation no doubt helped her in the great suffering she experienced in the last 18 months of her life.
