The Angelus Project: Pondering the Annunciation with Art: this Week's Image

Monday, November 24, 2014

Pondering the Annunciation with Art: this Week's Image

This Annunciation greets every visitor to the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels in Assisi. Beneath the figures are key words from the prayer of the Angelic Salutation (better knowns as the "Hail, Mary"): Beneath Gabriel's feet are the words "Ave Maria"; beneath Mary's, what we could say is her identity in God, "Gratia Plena" (the term is used in place of Mary's name in the Gospel of Luke).

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About the image: Photo by Sister Christine Hirsch, FSP.

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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.