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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”

The First Reading is Exodus 24.12-18, in which Moses goes up on Mount Sinai. The Second Reading is 3 Kings/1 Kings 19.3-8, when Ezekiel is fed by an angel. In the Gospel Reading, Matthew 12.38-50, Jesus responds to the request of the scribes and Pharisees for a sign by referring to the story of theContinue reading “Wednesday in the First Week of Lent / Ember Wednesday”