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Station - St. Peter in the Vatican
- Details:
- Apr. 13, 2:00 am
STATION – ST. PETER IN THE VATICAN
The desert of Lent lies behind us. Fifty days of paschal joy are the reward for forty days of Lenten penance faithfully kept with Christ and the Church. St. Peter invites us to spend this Easter Monday with him. He desires to tell us, out of the fullness of his pastoral heart, all that Jesus of Nazareth has done for the salvation of His sheep; how He went about doing good, how they put Him to death hanging Him upon a tree, how God raised Him up on the third day, and how in His name all receive remission of sins who believe in Him.
Through the Holy Eucharist we are drawn deeper and deeper into the saving death and glorious resurrection of the immortal Christ. Like Cleophas and Luke of Emmaus we are Table-guests of Christ, we know Him, our crucified and risen Lord, in the breaking of the Bread; our cold hearts begin to burn, our blind eyes are opened, and our souls are filled with that paschal peace and joy with which these two disciples hastened from Emmaus back to Jerusalem on the first blessed Easter evening.
St. Gregory the Great offers two suggestions that should prove quite helpful towards a real Eucharistic Easter week. The first: “Because they doubted, He hid the countenance they would have recognized.” In other words, the manifestation of Christ to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus was in accordance with their spiritual dispositions. Let us, therefore, approach the Table of the immolated and risen Lord with great faith, and He will manifest Himself to us accordingly. The second: “Behold the Lord was not recognized while speaking to them but deigned to make Himself known when they set food before Him.” This, too, we must do in these blessed days, prepare for Him a table of love, and do it in the corporate spirit of Cleophas and Luke, then the risen Lord, Who appeared to Peter will also manifest Himself to us. Peter’s lambs and sheep.
The design depicts the journey to Emmaus with the risen Savior; our hearts burn within us as He explains to us the Scriptures. The middle section illustrates the land flowing with milk and honey which is the Church. Peter (keys), the day’s stational saint, unlocks these treasures to us: spiritual milk and honey from the rock of Christ. At the Eucharistic banquet “our eyes are opened” to a deeper understanding of Christ.