Septuagesima Sunday

Matthew 20.1-16 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 LegendContinue reading “Septuagesima Sunday”