This Sunday’s Gospel reading is the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. Parables are rarely represented in medieval art. This manuscript illumination comes from the Codex aureus Epternacensis (ca. 1030-1045, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, digital facsimile).
The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger
Medieval Sources
Gregory the Great’s Nineteenth Gospel Homily
The Golden Legend (and illustrations)
Sermons
Homilies Of Feasts And Sundays By Catholic Church Fathers by D. G. Hubert (Washbourne, 1901).
Sermons for the Sundays and Some Festivals of the Year by Thomas White.
Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to which are added the lives of many saints by Leonard Goffiné (Pustet, 1880).
Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays (Benziger, 1896).
Abridged Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year by Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
The Catholic Pulpit: Containing a Sermon for Every Sunday and Holiday in the Year and for Good Friday (Murphy, 1851).
Readings for the Sundays and Holy Days of the Church’s Year (Bosworth, 1881).
Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger (Lowen, 1882).
Analysis of the Gospels of the Sundays of the Year by Angelo Cagnolo (Benziger, 1892).
Sermons for Children’s Masses, Accorading to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti (Benziger, 1900).
Sermons from the Latins by James J. Baxter (Benziger, 1902).
Short Discourses for all the Sundays in the Year According to the Mind & Method of the Catechism of the Council of Trent by John McQuirk (St. Paul’s Library, 1908).
Meditations for Every Day
Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).
Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).
Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year by Augustine Maria Ilg (Benziger, 1901).
Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon (Benziger, 1907).
Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.
Music
Art
ca. 1580 Engraving by Léonard Gaultier
1645 Painting by Francesco Maffei
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
Station Church
San Lorenzo fuori le mura – Crux Stationalis video, also
Poetry
“A Prayer for the Eleventh Hour” by Hugh Francis Blunt.
Nihil sub sole novum 
