{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030763.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030763.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030763.htm","text":"Similarly, too, touching the days of Stations, 8867 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\u2019s 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\u2019s altar? 8868 When the Lord\u2019s Body has been received and reserved 8869 each point is secured, both the participation of the sacrifice and the discharge of duty. If the \u201cStation\u201d has received its name from the example of military life\u2014for we withal are God\u2019s military 8870 \u2014of course no gladness or sadness chanting to the camp abolishes the \u201cstations\u201d of the soldiers: for gladness will carry out discipline more willingly, sadness more carefully.\nThe 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.\u201d\n687:8868 687:8869\nFor receiving at home apparently, when your station is over.\n687:8870\nSee 2 Tim. ii. 1, etc. [See Hermas, Vol. I., p. 33.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of St...","type":"page"}