The Angelus Project: Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Monday, September 2, 2019

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

It won't be celebrated liturgically this year, September 8 falling as it does on a Sunday, but the date of the Nativity of Mary comes seven days from today. (Catholic non-trivia: nine months ago we celebrated the Solemnity of Mary's Immaculate Conception. Time is an important factor in the Church's liturgical life!)

To honor Our Lady's birthday, here's an Annunciation by one of the greatest and holiest artists of all time, the beloved "Fra Angelico," Blessed John of Fiesole, from the collection of Yale University Art Gallery.

Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery

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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.