Nihil sub sole novum

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 the prophet Jonah.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger

Medieval Sources

Gregory the Great’s Third Gospel Homily

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

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.

Art

Concordantia caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 40v

Art – Moses Receiving the Law

Index of Medieval Art

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

4C Relief of Moses Receiving the Law

6C Mosaic of Moses Receiving the Law in San Vitale in Ravenna

Art – Elijah Fed by an Angel

Index of Medieval Art

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

1464 Painting of Elijah and an Angel

1577 Painting by Tintoretto of Elijah Fed by an Angel

1580 Painting of Elijah Fed by an Angel

1625 Painting by Rubens of Elijah Fed by an Angel

1660 Painting of Elijah Fed by an Angel

ca. 1665 Painting of Elijah Fed by an Angel

1680-1726 Painting of Elijah Fed by an Angel

Gustave Doré’s illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours – Elijah Fed by an Angel

Art – Jonah

Index of Medieval Art – Christ on the Sign of Jonah & Jonah

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Jonah

Guide to Christian Iconography – Jonah

3C Sarcophagus with Jonah

4C Table Carving with Jonah

4C Cleveland Jonah Marbles – Jonah Swallowed, Jonah Cast Up, Jonah Praying, Jonah under the Gourd

Gustave Doré’s illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours – Jonah Spewed Forth by the Whale, Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites

Kornbluth Photographic Archive – Jonah

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant, also

Station Church

Santa Maria Maggiore – Crux Stationalis Video, also

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 at the start of his public ministry, and therefore more precisely the cleansing recounted in the Gospel of John. Christ approaches the Temple, represented by the frame of a broad doorway, from the left, and the three wavy lines above his head to the right represent the scourge, a detail exclusive to the Gospel of John.

Isaiah 55.6-11

Matthew 21.10-17 (John’s account of the Cleansing on the Fourth Monday in Lent, forthcoming)

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

Concordantia caritatis

Index of Medieval Art – Christ Cleansing the Temple & Christ Healing the Blind and Lame

6C Rossano Gospels

9C Cover of the Codex Aureus of Saint Emmeram

1303 Fresco by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel

ca. 1400 Manuscript Illumination

ca. 1475 Manuscript Illumination

Before 1570 Painting by El Greco

1576/1580 Engraving by Léonard Gaultier

1580 Painting by Jacopo Bassano

ca. 1600 Painting by El Greco

ca. 1600 Painting by El Greco

1610 Painting by Francesco Boneri

1618 Painting by Valentin de Boulogne

1620-1625 Painting by Valentin de Boulogne

1630 Painting by Mattias Storm

1655 Painting by Bernardo Mei

1660 Painting by Luca Giordano

ca. 1675 Painting by Luca Giordano

1684 Painting by Luca Giordano in the Chiesa degli Gerolamini in Naples

17C Painting by Mattia Preti

1724 Painting by Gian Paolo Panini

1843 Gustave Doré’s illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours (see also)

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Christ Cleansing the Temple

Guide to Christian Iconography

Great Painters and their Famous Bible Pictures

History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art

The Gospel in Art

Iconography of Christian Art (figures)

Station Church

Saint Anastasia, Crux Stationalis video, also

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 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 for Every Day

Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year by Augustine Maria Ilg (Benziger, 1901).

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 – Christ Separating Sheep and Goats, Works of Mercy

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Works of Mercy

Concordantia Caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 38v

Mosaic of the Separation of Sheep from Goats in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna

The Seven Works of Mercy by Caravaggio

A Guide to Christian Iconography

Age of Spirituality page 508, no. 501.

The Visual Commentary on Scripture

Station Church

San Pietro in Vincoli, Crux Stationalis Video, also