Illustration: Zephyrinus.
Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 11.
Time After Pentecost.
Book II.
With the Greeks, this Sunday — their eleventh of Saint Matthew — is called the Parable of the King, who calls his servants to account.
In the Western Church, it has gone under the name of Sunday of the Deaf and Dumb, ever since the Gospel of the Pharisee and the Publican has been assigned to the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost.
Today’s Mass, as we now have it, still gives evidence as to what was its ancient arrangement. Our Commentary on today’s Liturgy will show us this very plainly.
In the years when Easter falls nearest to 21 March, the Books of Kings are continued as Lessons of Matins up to, but never beyond, this Sunday.
The sickness of the good King, Ezechias, and the miraculous cure he obtained by his Prayers and tears, are then the subject of the First Lessons of the Night Office.
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