Monday, July 22, 2019

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

On this Feast of St Mary Magdalen, the woman "Apostle to the Apostles", it is fitting to feature a work of art that was most probably executed by a woman.
Whoever she was, she started with a large, plainly woven piece of linen, using wool and silk thread to transform it into a piece of textile art with all the detail of an illuminated manuscript. This is not a tiny handcraft project: the finished pillow cover measures 19 X 20 inches!

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64509/pillow-cover-depicting-the-annunciation

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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