Nihil sub sole novum

Carolingian Fresco of Saint John the Baptist Sending His Disciples to Christ to Ask “Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?” in the center apse of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Müstair, Switzerland.

Today’s Gospel reading, Matthew 11.2-10, is a rare subject in Medieval and Renaissance art, but a monastery church in the Swiss Alps, constructed and painted around the year 800, preserves an endearing depiction of Saint John the Baptist in a prison cell resembling a shower stall, as he sends his two disciples to Christ to ask if He is the one to come. The church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and the center apse presents the story of his life, the later part of his life with Romanesque frescoes still covering the original Carolingian. But this scene is from among the Carolingian. The remains of its inscription read – IVB[ … ]I[.]ISCO( )[ .. ]SPE[ .. ]I[—.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger

Station Church

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme – Churches of Rome Wiki, Crux Stationalis Video

Sermons

Gregory the Great’s Sixth Gospel Homily

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 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).

Abridged Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year by Saint Alphonsus Liguori.

The Catholic Pulpit: Containing a Sermon for Every Sunday and Holiday in the Year and for Good Friday (Murphy, 1851).

Readings for the Sundays and Holy Days of the Church’s Year (Bosworth, 1881).