Monthly Archives: February 2023

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, andContinue reading “Ash Wednesday”

This week the Gospel begins with Jesus prophesying his Passion, but continues with the healing of the blind man as Jesus comes to Jericho. The Gospels recount several healings from blindness – the man born blind in John 9, whom Jesus heals with clay and instructs to wash in the pool at Siloe; two blindContinue reading “Quinquagesima Sunday”

This week we read the Parable of the Sower. This subject for representation, although possibly intended by the 4th century engraving above, did not become a common theme until the 16th century, when its bucolic potential was first realized. Images of the sower would culminate in the 19th century, first with paintings by Millet, thenContinue reading “Sexagesima Sunday”