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.
The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger
Sermons
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).
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).
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
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Art
Index of Medieval Art – Christ Separating Sheep and Goats, Works of Mercy
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Works of Mercy
Concordantia Caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 38v
Mosaic of the Separation of Sheep from Goats in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna
The Seven Works of Mercy by Caravaggio
A Guide to Christian Iconography
Age of Spirituality page 508, no. 501.
The Visual Commentary on Scripture
Station Church
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