Nihil sub sole novum

First Saturday in Lent / Ember Saturday

Today’s Gospel reading is of the Transfiguration of Christ, here as preserved at the Monastery of Saint John in Müstair (CH). Although so minimally preserved, the multiplication of clouds, conventional signifiers of glory, and of the rays in Christ’s nimbus represent this display of Christ’s divinity. Peter’s right eye remains from his witness, to the right.

Matthew 17.1-9

Deuteronomy 26.12-19

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger

Sermons

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).

Meditations

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Art

Index of Medieval Art

Engraving by Léonard Gaultier

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography

The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art

The Gospel in Art

Iconography of Christian Art

See August 6 – The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Station Church

San Pietro in Vaticano, Crux Stationalis Video, Crux Stationalis Video, another

Friday of the First Week of Lent / Ember Friday

The House Church at Dura Europos
The Codex Egberti

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 of Bethsaida, which finds representation in the second image from the Ottonian Codex Egberti.

John 5.1-15

Ezekiel 18.4-21