On the station churches route: English-speaking Catholics revive ancient custom in the Eternal City.(ROME TOURBOOK)

National Catholic Reporter | July 15, 2005| | Copyright

Anyone traveling to Rome during Lent will not want to miss the tradition of daily Mass at the station churches, a practice that reaches all the way back to the fourth century when popes would visit each of the churches in Rome on fixed days.

The idea was that everyone in Rome would be able to gather around their bishop in worship at least once in a while, when he visited the church in their neighborhood. The same tradition developed in other major imperial centers such as Alexandria and Antioch.

Reviving that custom, English-speakers in Rome, led by the students, faculty ...

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