Category Archives: Temporale

This week we read the Parable of the Sower. This subject for representation, although possibly intended by the 4th century engraving above, did not become a common theme until the 16th century, when its bucolic potential was first realized. Images of the sower would culminate in the 19th century, first with paintings by Millet, thenContinue reading “Sexagesima Sunday”

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”