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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”

Today’s Gospel reading tells of Christ Cleansing the Temple from the Gospel of Matthew and coming immediately upon his Entry into Jerusalem, followed by his Healing of the blind and the lame in the Temple. As pictured above at the Monastery of Saint John, it appears a few panels after Christ’s Baptism and thus atContinue reading “Tuesday in the First Week of Lent”

Today’s Gospel tells of the Last Judgment, as the separation of the sheep from the goats followed by Jesus enumerating the first six works of mercy. Here the parable of the welcoming of the sheep and the rejection of the goats appears on what was once the lid of a sarcophagus. Matthew 25.31-46 The LiturgicalContinue reading “Monday in the First Week of Lent”