Meaning of the Stations of the Cross: Learn a Quick Way to Pray!
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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We all know about the Stations of the Cross but many people don't pray them often because they are inconvenient to get to and take too long to pray. Join Fr. Chris Alar as he gives you a better understanding of why we pray the Stations, how to understand them better, and a new way to pray them quickly!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome everybody to the Shrine of Divine Mercy for a special edition of explaining the faith. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Father Chris Ailar. |
| 0:07.1 | We're here with several pilgrims for Louisiana, Puerto Rico, from Toronto, and from all around Massachusetts. |
| 0:12.5 | So we're grateful you could be with us in these 11 most holy days of the year. |
| 0:18.9 | The three days of the Tritonum, the eight days of the Easter octave are the most holy day of the year. The three days of the Tritonwam, the eight days of the Easter octave are the |
| 0:22.6 | most holy day of the year. Now, we are going to do a shorter talk, and then we will follow it, |
| 0:30.7 | ramp this video down, and then start the first Saturday's devotion. But thank you for joining us, |
| 0:35.9 | because today we're going to talk about not only, |
| 0:39.4 | well, first of all, let me ask you this. What should you have been doing, especially yesterday and |
| 0:45.2 | today? Stations of the cross. That's the topic of our talk today. That's the topic of our talk. |
| 0:53.6 | So you should yesterday and today especially be doing stations of the cross. So today this talk is going to be about the stations. Their meaning, I'm going to give you a little bit of the background, how they came to be, and we're going to walk you through a virtual tour of the stations here on Eden Hill. And so then I'm going to show |
| 1:13.2 | you a quick and easy way I pray the stations, because although I love the stations, I don't |
| 1:19.7 | always have 45 minutes to do them. Sometimes they only have 10 minutes. And so I've developed a little |
| 1:25.5 | way that I'm going to share with you on how to pray these stations of the cross that I believe are just as much grace, just as effective, but do it with love, and you'll hit tons of grace. |
| 1:37.8 | So let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. |
| 1:43.2 | Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us |
| 1:46.1 | to open our minds and hearts to receive this grace, especially the grace that comes from the passion, |
| 1:53.0 | death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we ask Mother Mary to intercede for us through Christ, |
| 2:00.1 | our Lord. |
| 2:01.2 | Amen. |
| 2:05.0 | In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirits. |
| 2:05.8 | Amen. |
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