Lenten Station At St. Clement's

 Non-Italic Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal for the Monday of the Second Week in Lent
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Station at St. Clement's

Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines

Violet Vestments

 Basilica of Saint Clement

Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano (Italian)

The Station is at the Church of Saint Clement, built above the very house of the third successor of Saint Peter, whose name is found in the Canon of the Mass. This Sanctuary, a Parish of Rome in the 5th-Century, is a most faithful example of an old Roman Basilica, although it was rebuilt in the 11th-Century. There are found, under the altar, the remains of the holy martyr and of Saint Ignatius of Antioch.

Our Lord foretells in the Gospel that the Jews will lift Him up on the cross, and thrice He asserts that they will die in their sin, because they have not believed in Him and done His works.

Apse mosaic at Saint Clement's

The wrath of God, which fell a first time on Jerusalem at the time of the captivity of Babylon (Epistle), was renewed against Israel at the burning of the Temple. Like guilty Christians, they would only be able to return to the Lord by Penance, while the heathen are called, instead, to believe in Jesus, to become part of His people by Baptism.

“Let us mortify our flesh by abstinence from food and let us fast from sin by following justice” (Collect).

The Basilica of San Clemente is a complex of buildings in Rome centred around a 12th-Century Roman Catholic church dedicated to Pope Clement I. The site is notable as being an archaeological record of Roman architectural, political and religious history from the early Christian era to the Middle Ages.