STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Stations of the Cross will take place at St. Helena’s Church every Friday during Lent following the 12:15PM Mass and again at 6:30PM in English and 7:30PM in Spanish, beginning on Friday, February 12. The Stations refers both to a series of 14 images arranged in numbered order around a church nave or along a path depicting Jesus on the day of his crucifixion and also to the prayers said when contemplating these images.ons there, the actual places the events occurred. The tradition of moving around the Stations to commemorate the Passion of Christ began with St. Francis of Assisi. They originated in pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In 1686, Pope Innocent XI granted to the Franciscans the right to erect stations within their churches. In 1731, Pope Clement XII extended to all churches the right to have the 14 stations, provided that a Franciscan father erected them, and in 1862 it became no longer necessary to have them erected by a friar.