Monday, April 15, 2019

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This splendid Annunciation was created by Johann Koerbecke as part of a folding altarpiece for the high altar of a Cistercian abbey in Germany. Most of the year, however, the glorious scenes of the Life of the Virgin would have been shuttered, and the reverse panels (scenes of the Passion) exposed.

From the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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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.

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