By Dom Prosper Guéranger, LifeSiteNews, Feb 26, 2024
This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1841-1875). LifeSiteNews is grateful to The Ecu-Men website for making this classic work easily available online
God is patient; he waits a long time: but when his anger bursts upon a guilty people like the Jews, the chastisement is without mercy, and one that serves as an example to future generations.
(LifeSiteNews) — The station is in the church of Saint Clement, pope and martyr. In this, more than in any other church of the city of Rome, there has been preserved the ancient arrangement of the early Christian basilicas.
Under its altar there reposes the body of its holy patron, together with the relics of St. Ignatius of Antioch, and of the consul St. Flavius Clemens. …