Monday, February 10, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


The Annunciation (Arthur Hacker, 1892); The Tate Gallery.

In Hacker's image, we find Mary with a water-jar rather than busy about her weaving. This refers to the Annunciation story in the "Protoevangelium of James," an early non-biblical book which is the source of many popular devotional aspects related to Mary (for instance, the names of her parents).

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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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