Monday, April 6, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This week's image, our last Annunciation until Ordinary Time resumes, is by the 16th century Cretan iconographer George Klontzas (who also painted the Annunciation featured on March 2). The Annunciation is featured on the outside of a triptych whose wings open up to reveal a Crucifixion with the Last Supper and the Way of the Cross to the left, and the Descent into Hell and Resurrection on the right. (A fascinatingly detailed description of the triptych can be found online.)

Klontzas Triptych, Annunciation with prophets (detail).

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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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