Above: pilgrims lighting candles in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Editor’s note: there is no free, digitised version of the Patristic homily appointed in the office for today’s Gospel. The sermon is Homily 33 of St. Gregory the Great, and an excerpt can be found here (under “Reading 1”) and a full translation can be found here. This text is taken from The Liturgical Year…
