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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”

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”