When I went to get this week’s illustration from William Hole’s The Life of Jesus of Nazareth. The reading for this week corresponds with the picture of Jesus teaching in the temple that I picked last week! But not to worry. This weeks picture is near the beginning of the Public Ministry according to John’s Gospel. Today’s reading is from Luke again:

At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it saying: If thou also hadst known, and that in this day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side; and beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee; and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. And entering into the temple, He began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought, saying to them: It is written, My house is the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. And He was teaching daily in the temple.

Here is the printable page: Pentecost09.pdf

Quia domus mea domus oratiónis est.

My house is the house of prayer.

Nadal’s picture is great, as usual. I like the line for label B: Christi splendor e vultu & maiestas quae terret omnes. Something like “the splendor of Christ’s face/countenance strikes terror into all”. Yes, I need to study more.

Yes, the astute reader will notice this is for Feria III post Dominica I in Quadragesimae (Tuesday after the first Sunday of Lent). Same picture so Felix Just only put up the one.