Ash Wednesday

In today’s Gospel, Jesus instructs us not to make a show of our fasting and to lay up our treasures in heaven, not on earth. These words form part of the Sermon on the Mount. Christ teaching is among one of the earliest motifs of Christian art, but mostly without a specific narrative context, and of course, from the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes figure most prominently. Here the Sermon on the Mount painted by French Catholic painter, James Tissot (1836-1902).

Matthew 6.16-21

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger

Prudentius, Hymn for those who fast & Hymn after Fasting

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 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).

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).

Sermon by Aelfric

Meditations

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon (Benziger, 1907).