Monthly Archives: February 2023

Today’s Gospel reading tells of Christ Cleansing the Temple from the Gospel of Matthew and coming immediately upon his Entry into Jerusalem, followed by his Healing of the blind and the lame in the Temple. As pictured above at the Monastery of Saint John, it appears a few panels after Christ’s Baptism and thus atContinue reading “Tuesday in the First Week of Lent”

Today’s Gospel tells of the Last Judgment, as the separation of the sheep from the goats followed by Jesus enumerating the first six works of mercy. Here the parable of the welcoming of the sheep and the rejection of the goats appears on what was once the lid of a sarcophagus. Matthew 25.31-46 The LiturgicalContinue reading “Monday in the First Week of Lent”

In today’s Gospel reading, we read about the Temptation of Christ. A rather dramatic story that nevertheless did not receive visual representation until well into the Middle Ages. Among the earliest, this illumination from the Stuttgart Psalter (folio 107v) illustrates Psalm 90, coming between verses 11 and 12. [11] For he hath given his angels chargeContinue reading “Quadragesima Sunday / First Sunday in Lent”