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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”

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”