Monthly Archives: March 2023

While today’s Gospel reading is a scene of teaching that does not lend itself to any sort of particularization in its visual representation and would only be identifiable by proximity to the text, today’s epistle introduces Elijah/Elias to the widow at Sarepta/Zarephata, whose son he will subsequently revive, but here Elijah first provides for themContinue reading “Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent”

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ is teaching Jews in the Temple, in the Treasury. This moment rarely finds representation. James Tissot included it in his watercolor series, La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ. John 8.21-29 Daniel 9.15-19 The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Sermons Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivalsContinue reading “Monday in the Second Week of Lent”

The same Gospel reading as yesterday, Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration. Both these mosaics date to the 6th century, the first in Ravenna, the second on the Sinai Peninsula, and represent the Transfiguration, one symbolically, the other literally. Matthew 17.1-9 1 Thessalonians 4.1-7 The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Sermons Homilies Of Feasts And SundaysContinue reading “Second Sunday of Lent”