Monday, September 25, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

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J. W. Waterhouse provides a modern-looking Annunciation scene in an image painted over 100 years ago.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


The background of this Annunciation (from a French Book of Hours ca 1375) seems to replicate the halos of Mary and Gabriel, while bursting with leaves as if a continuation of the lily plant between them. From the collection of The Morgan Library and Museum. Gabriel's scroll reads "Gloriae et".

Monday, September 11, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


Veronese's stunning 1558 image can be found in the Basilica of Sts John and Paul ("Zanipolo") in Venice.

Monday, September 4, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


Reduced to the barest minimum: This German Annunciation has no outdoor or indoor setting, no furnishings, no other context for us than the simple words on the ribbons held in the left hand of each: "Ave, Gratia Plena..." and "Ecce Ancilla Domini..."  The almost 1,000 year old image comes from a psalter in the collection of The Morgan Library and Museum.


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.

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