Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger

The epistle today comes from the book of Esther (Esther 13.8-17), the prayer of Mordecai, and the Gospel (Matthew 20.17-28) relates the encounter of Christ with the mother of the sons of Zebedee (James and John).

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

Concordantia caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 47v

Index of Medieval Art – Seats for James and John

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

ca. 1400 MS Illumination

Painting by Paolo Veronese (about)

16C Print by Léonard Gaultier

Station Church

Santa Cecilia, Crux Stationalis Video, also