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Pope Leo XIV will preside over the traditional Ash Wednesday procession and Mass on Rome\u2019s Aventine Hill, an important place of Christian veneration and pilgrimage for more than 1,500 years.<\/p>\n

For the Dominican and Benedictine religious orders, whose communities have had a significant historical presence on the Aventine, the Holy Father\u2019s Feb. 18 visit will be a special occasion to begin the Church\u2019s liturgical season dedicated to prayer and fasting before Easter.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the 40-day Lenten \u201cStations Churches\u201d pilgrimage<\/a> \u2014 formally instituted in the sixth century by Pope Gregory the Great and restored by Pope John XXIII in 1959 \u2014 the pope leads a penitential procession from the Benedictine church of Sant\u2019Anselmo to the nearby Dominican Basilica of Santa Sabina.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo walk with Pope Leo on this pilgrimage from the nearby Sant\u2019Anselmo church will be a sign, a symbol, for all of us of the spiritual work that\u2019s taking place in our hearts in Lent,\u201d Santa Sabina resident Father Patrick Briscoe, OP, told EWTN News. \u201cWe\u2019ll all be on pilgrimage together.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, Pope Leo will preside over a short afternoon prayer service at the Benedictine monastery and then celebrate the Ash Wednesday Mass at Santa Sabina, a fourth-century basilica that was gifted to St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers in 1219 by Pope Honorius III.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pope himself imposes ashes on [the cardinals] during the Mass,\u201d Briscoe added. \u201cThe cardinals stand in for the whole Church and they\u2019re a sign of all of us joining and following the pope\u2019s lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the Lenten tradition, the pope leads the procession through the main doors of Santa Sabina, which contains the oldest known artistic portrayal of Jesus Christ crucified.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the door we have a very important Christian symbol\u2026 It allows us to think of the meaning of Lent and to embrace the suffering of Christ,\u201d Briscoe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we consider it from the historical perspective and the evolution of Christian understanding, we really didn\u2019t know how to handle the cross,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt took us a hundred years to depict it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis says something to each of us entering into Lent \u2014 to discover anew what our sufferings mean and how to have them transformed by Christ\u2019s own sacrifice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Father Eusebius Martis, OSB, a sacramental theology professor who teaches at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Sant\u2019Anselmo, told EWTN News the Aventine is an ideal place for prayer and pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really an ideal spot because it\u2019s quiet and it\u2019s a little bit separated but not too far [from the city center],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Martis, nature on the Aventine has inspired artists and pilgrims alike throughout the centuries to contemplate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe acanthus leaf is growing all across our property here at [Sant\u2019Anselmo],\u201d Martis said. \u201cIt dies and it lays against the ground \u2026 completely dead until the spring [when] it comes back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a couple of weeks, it will start putting up flowers, which represent a bloom around Easter time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pointing out the reliefs of the acanthus leaf found on the Corinthian columns inside the Basilica of Sant\u2019Anselmo, Martis said several churches across Rome purposefully depict the leaf to symbolize the Church\u2019s belief in Jesus\u2019 victory over sin and death.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe architects wanted us to remember that, every time we\u2019re at the altar, we are at Easter,\u201d the Benedictine father said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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