Stations of the Cross:
Franz Liszt wrote a Via Crucis for choir, soloists and piano or organ or harmonium in 1879. French organist Marcel Dupré created musical meditations in 1931, based on fourteen poems by Paul Claudel. Stefano Vagnini's 2002 modular oratorio, Via Crucis, is a composition for organ, computer, choir, string orchestra and brass quartet. A 2024 Google search for “music for stations of the cross” yielded 46.5 million results.
One selection is a requiem composed by Eliza Gilkyson as presented by music ministers from the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City, mother church of the Paulist Fathers.
Twelfth station: Jesus speaks to his mother and the Beloved Disciple
Click here to read the text for Station 12, and to hear a reflection, and the requiem.