magistrahildegard

15 January – Saint Isidore of Scetes

also known as Isidore the Priest Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Roman Martyrology Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year Medieval Hagiography Sayings of the Desert Fathers Art & Architecture Portail Biblissima

Second Sunday after Epiphany

Luke 2.21 (the same reading as for 1 January – The Feast of the Circumcision) The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Sermons Homilies Of Feasts And Sundays By Catholic Church Fathers by D. G. Hubert (Washbourne, 1901). Sermons for the Sundays and Some Festivals of the Year by Thomas White. Explanation of the Epistles andContinue reading “Second Sunday after Epiphany”

Sunday within the Octave of Epiphany

Today’s Gospel is about Christ teaching in the Temple, traditionally called Christ among the Doctors by art historians. One of several scenes on a fifth-century ivory diptych in Milan Cathedral and in a manuscript sent from Rome to England in the 7th century (see also), itself clearly modeled on a model like the Milan ivory.Continue reading “Sunday within the Octave of Epiphany”