The website for their new vocations initiative is, ĪLL: Gracious God, Each of us is called to discipleship with Your Son Jesus through the sacrament of Baptism. Alphonsus version with the inclusion of this following prep prayer. The USCCB has developed “Stations of the Cross for Vocations” as an initiative to promote and pray for vocations. Obviously, there was no connection between the action depicted in each Station on the wall and the “immigration stations,” so the boys ended up frustrated and embarrassed. A kindly layman eventually popped out of his nearby pew and moved the procession over two Stations to catch up with the lector. The sign of lousy Stations of the Cross: altar servers processing between the Stations with the crucifix consistently confused and in front of the wrong Stations. When they got to the point of meditating on supposed immigration officials conducting midnight raids to find illegal immigrants in their homes and scaring immigrant children out of their beds by shining flashlights into their faces, I just quit and quietly waited for the Mass to begin. Oy vey! The reflections at the various stations talked about everything BUT the actual Via Crucis.
Somebody there decided to make the SOTC all about immigration issues. However, last year I encountered a new version of the SOTC at another Sacramento parish. We’re very blessed to have our good deacons. Our deacons lead them, and they do an excellent job and include the chants and the prayers for the indulgence at the end. Alphonsus translated into modern English (no thee/thou). My parish in Sacramento, CA uses these Stations from St.