(Collecta: S. John Lateran)


The basilica church itself was already covered earlier in Lent, but Cardinal Schuster mentions this historical aspect for the historical stational liturgy for today:
...the station is held today in the basilica known as Sancta Hierusalem, to which the Pope formerly went barefoot, walking in procession from the Lateran. He swung, as he went, a censer filled with precious perfumes before the wood of the true cross, carried by a deacon, whilst the choir sang Psalm cxviii: Beati immaculati in via...