Monthly Archives: January 2023

Today the Gospel recounts when Christ Stilled the Storm at Sea. In the remains of this fresco from the Monastery of Saint John in Müstair (CH), a personification of the wind blows from the upper left corner. Below, three apostles, in varying degrees of preservation sit in the boat, whose mast also rises from behindContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after Epiphany”

This Sunday’s Gospel tells the story of two healings, that of the leper and that of the Centurion’s servant. Stories of Christ healing figure prominently in early Christian and early Medieval art and less prominently into the early modern era; nevertheless, the Healing of the Leper and The Healing of the Centurion’s Servant are relativelyContinue reading “Third Sunday after Epiphany”

Luke 2.21 (the same reading as for 1 January – The Feast of the Circumcision) The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Sermons Homilies Of Feasts And Sundays By Catholic Church Fathers by D. G. Hubert (Washbourne, 1901). Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to whichContinue reading “Second Sunday after Epiphany”

Today’s Gospel is about Christ teaching in the Temple, traditionally called Christ among the Doctors by art historians. One of several scenes on a fifth-century ivory diptych in Milan Cathedral and in a manuscript sent from Rome to England in the 7th century (see also), itself clearly modeled on a model like the Milan ivory.Continue reading “Sunday within the Octave of Epiphany”

This year, Christmas falls on a Sunday, and the Feast of the Circumcision completes the Octave on the following Sunday, superseding the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas. The Circumcision comes in verse 21 of the second chapter of Luke, and in verse 22 begins the story of Jesus’s Presentation in the Temple. Today’s GospelContinue reading “Sunday within the Octave of Christmas”