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Matthew 20.1-16 This Sunday’s Gospel reading is the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. Parables are rarely represented in medieval art. This manuscript illumination comes from the Codex aureus Epternacensis (ca. 1030-1045, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, digital facsimile). The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Medieval Sources Gregory the Great’s Nineteenth Gospel Homily The Golden LegendContinue reading “Septuagesima Sunday”

Today the Gospel recounts when Christ Stilled the Storm at Sea. In the remains of this fresco from the Monastery of Saint John in Müstair (CH), a personification of the wind blows from the upper left corner. Below, three apostles, in varying degrees of preservation sit in the boat, whose mast also rises from behindContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after Epiphany”

This Sunday’s Gospel tells the story of two healings, that of the leper and that of the Centurion’s servant. Stories of Christ healing figure prominently in early Christian and early Medieval art and less prominently into the early modern era; nevertheless, the Healing of the Leper and The Healing of the Centurion’s Servant are relativelyContinue reading “Third Sunday after Epiphany”