Monday, June 24, 2019

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

On today's Solemnity of the Birth of John the Baptist (significantly, six months before Christmas Eve), it is fitting to feature a work of art that places the Annunciation to Mary with the Vistiation to St. Elizabeth (the moment when the unborn John first "heralded" the unborn Savior in Mary's womb). This ivory bas-relief is a detail from a work in the Louvre.

Seudo, from Wikimedia Commons [CC by SA 4.0]

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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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