Monthly Archives: March 2023

Today’s Gospel reading is of the Transfiguration of Christ, here as preserved at the Monastery of Saint John in Müstair (CH). Although so minimally preserved, the multiplication of clouds, conventional signifiers of glory, and of the rays in Christ’s nimbus represent this display of Christ’s divinity. Peter’s right eye remains from his witness, to theContinue reading “First Saturday in Lent / Ember Saturday”

The Healing of the Paralytic in the Dura Europos Church (Yale Art Museum Catalogue) may be any one of the paralytics healed by Christ, but the baptismal context and the water theme of its adjacent image of Peter Walking on Water, suggest it is rather likely the healing of the paralytic at the Pool ofContinue reading “Friday of the First Week of Lent / Ember Friday”

Matthew 15.21-28 Ezekiel 18.1-9 The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger 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).Continue reading “Thursday of the First Week of Lent”