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Chapter XIX.—Of
Stations.
Similarly, too, touching the days of
Stations,8867
| 8867 The word Statio
seems to have been used in more than one sense in the ancient
Church. A passage in the Shepherd of Hermas, referred to above
(B. iii. Sim. 5), appears to make it ="fast.” | most think that
they must not be present at the sacrificial prayers, on the ground that
the Station must be dissolved by reception of the Lord’s Body.
Does, then, the Eucharist cancel a service devoted to God, or bind it
more to God? Will not your Station be more solemn if you
have withal stood at God’s altar?8868
| 8868 “Ara,” not
“altare.” | When the Lord’s Body has been received
and reserved8869
| 8869 For receiving at
home apparently, when your station is over. | each point is
secured, both the participation of the sacrifice and the discharge of
duty. If the “Station” has received its name from the
example of military life—for we withal are God’s
military8870
—of course no
gladness or sadness chanting to the camp abolishes the
“stations” of the soldiers: for gladness will carry out
discipline more willingly, sadness more carefully.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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