Tuesday in the First Week of Lent

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 at the start of his public ministry, and therefore more precisely the cleansing recounted in the Gospel of John. Christ approaches the Temple, represented by the frame of a broad doorway, from the left, and the three wavy lines above his head to the right represent the scourge, a detail exclusive to the Gospel of John.

Isaiah 55.6-11

Matthew 21.10-17 (John’s account of the Cleansing on the Fourth Monday in Lent, forthcoming)

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

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

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Art